Kevin Jones
@stairwaytokevin13.bsky.social
Privacy/tech lawyer by day, film noir aficionado by night. CIPP/US, AIGP. Living the beach life between Wilmington, NC & Racine, WI.
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Christmas break reading has arrived!
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Christmas break reading has arrived!
A reminder of life on the Cape Fear!
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
A reminder of life on the Cape Fear!
Thanks to Raygun in Chicago, I’ll be caught up on my holiday cards very soon.
December 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Thanks to Raygun in Chicago, I’ll be caught up on my holiday cards very soon.
The Little Debbie Christmas Tree Dip has achieved its final form this morning.
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Little Debbie Christmas Tree Dip has achieved its final form this morning.
Cry of the City portrays the American Dream as both a promise and a pressure cooker. It’s part opera, part street chronicle, and fully steeped in the anxieties of a country forever wrestling with who gets to rise and who gets crushed trying. boxd.it/bYoAwt #NoirAlley #TCMparty
A ★★★★ review of Cry of the City (1948)
Cry of the City plays like a street-level opera: a story pitched big, emotional, and fate-driven, yet staged in cramped hallways, tenement stairwells, and shadowed police precincts. Robert Siodmak giv...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Cry of the City portrays the American Dream as both a promise and a pressure cooker. It’s part opera, part street chronicle, and fully steeped in the anxieties of a country forever wrestling with who gets to rise and who gets crushed trying. boxd.it/bYoAwt #NoirAlley #TCMparty
Malice cakes are part of a nutritious, noir-based breakfast to serve your enemies. #FilmNoir #NoirAlley #TCMParry
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Malice cakes are part of a nutritious, noir-based breakfast to serve your enemies. #FilmNoir #NoirAlley #TCMParry
Little Debbie Christmas Tree Dip complete for tomorrow’s office snacks array. Just need to add the sprinkles and one more cake on top!
December 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Little Debbie Christmas Tree Dip complete for tomorrow’s office snacks array. Just need to add the sprinkles and one more cake on top!
Go Bills! It’s a beautiful, snowy day for some football.
December 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Go Bills! It’s a beautiful, snowy day for some football.
Only the French could make a western where the gunfights take second place to existential dread, and a hostage rescue turns into a meditation on failed revolutions. boxd.it/bXUM7b
A ★★★½ review of The Taste of Violence (1961)
Robert Hossein’s The Taste of Violence sits in that strange and fascinating borderland of cinema history: a French western made just before the Italians would take the genre, electrify it, and never l...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Only the French could make a western where the gunfights take second place to existential dread, and a hostage rescue turns into a meditation on failed revolutions. boxd.it/bXUM7b
Hard-boiled politics, corrupt bosses, and a doomed protagonist. This is noir with union dues. All sharpened by the knowledge that its director met a fate a few years after its release darker than anything on screen. boxd.it/bXE7Jh
A ★★★★ review of The Traitors (1973)
What does it look like when someone betrays the very people who made them who they are? That question shaped my entire experience of watching Los Traidores, a fierce and clear-eyed political thriller ...
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December 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Hard-boiled politics, corrupt bosses, and a doomed protagonist. This is noir with union dues. All sharpened by the knowledge that its director met a fate a few years after its release darker than anything on screen. boxd.it/bXE7Jh
At the in-laws house in Green Bay…
December 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
At the in-laws house in Green Bay…
Gruss vom Krampus!
December 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Gruss vom Krampus!
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The Black Friday deals have arrived…
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The Black Friday deals have arrived…
What a waste of a solid David Byrne opening song. boxd.it/bVzIcr
A ★★ review of Something Wild (1986)
Something Wild has all the ingredients of a wild ride. Despite eccentric characters, sharp needle drops, and a story that’s constantly swerving lanes, however, it felt strained and overworked almost f...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:21 AM
What a waste of a solid David Byrne opening song. boxd.it/bVzIcr
Called an in-flight audible with Robert Flaherty’s Man of Aran (1934). A wind-beaten, saltwater epic where cliffs and waves feel hostile, the basking shark hunt astonishes, and the kid fishing at the cliff’s edge adds real tension. Staged or not, it hits with elemental force. boxd.it/bV0MmP
A ★★★★ review of Man of Aran (1934)
And I thought Shinoda’s The Naked Island was barren! Man of Aran confronts you with a world so stripped down, so wind-lashed and salt-scarred, it feels primordial. The island is less a setting than a ...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Called an in-flight audible with Robert Flaherty’s Man of Aran (1934). A wind-beaten, saltwater epic where cliffs and waves feel hostile, the basking shark hunt astonishes, and the kid fishing at the cliff’s edge adds real tension. Staged or not, it hits with elemental force. boxd.it/bV0MmP
Recombobulated and ready to battle the frozen tundra!
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Recombobulated and ready to battle the frozen tundra!
Salt melts snow, right? Carrying this image with me to combat the snow.
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Salt melts snow, right? Carrying this image with me to combat the snow.
Back to saying “you all” for a few weeks tomorrow.
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Back to saying “you all” for a few weeks tomorrow.
