Kevin Jones
@stairwaytokevin13.bsky.social
Privacy/tech lawyer by day, film noir aficionado by night. CIPP/US, CIPP/E & AIGP. Living the beach life between Wilmington, NC & Racine, WI.
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That joke gets me every time. #TCMParty #SomeLikeItHot
September 27, 2026 at 3:27 AM
That joke gets me every time. #TCMParty #SomeLikeItHot
Halloween Challenge #5 (Asian): The Boxer’s Omen (1983)
Come for the Buddhist mysticism. Stay for the mummies, skulls, black magic, and enough bodily fluids to make David Cronenberg ask everyone to settle down. boxd.it/gv0mnN
Come for the Buddhist mysticism. Stay for the mummies, skulls, black magic, and enough bodily fluids to make David Cronenberg ask everyone to settle down. boxd.it/gv0mnN
A ★★★★ review of The Boxer's Omen (1983)
Who knew revenge involved so much goo? The Boxer’s Omen plunges headfirst into Buddhist monks, black magic, mummies, skulls, rebirth, curses, and gore galore. Bodies swell, rot, rupture, vomit, and tr...
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September 26, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Halloween Challenge #5 (Asian): The Boxer’s Omen (1983)
Come for the Buddhist mysticism. Stay for the mummies, skulls, black magic, and enough bodily fluids to make David Cronenberg ask everyone to settle down. boxd.it/gv0mnN
Come for the Buddhist mysticism. Stay for the mummies, skulls, black magic, and enough bodily fluids to make David Cronenberg ask everyone to settle down. boxd.it/gv0mnN
Halloween Challenge #4: Zombies The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974). Ecological horror, and a police inspector who’s all about chewing gum and whomping hippies. And he’s all out of gum. A nasty, atmospheric zombie movie with technological hubris and braaaiiinnns on the brain. boxd.it/guzC8P
A ★★★★ review of The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue builds its zombie apocalypse out of an anxiety that has only grown more familiar: the belief that technology can manipulate complex systems without fully understan...
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September 26, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Halloween Challenge #4: Zombies The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974). Ecological horror, and a police inspector who’s all about chewing gum and whomping hippies. And he’s all out of gum. A nasty, atmospheric zombie movie with technological hubris and braaaiiinnns on the brain. boxd.it/guzC8P
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Getting a head start on a film group Halloween Challenge of first time watches, plus a collaboration from Shirley Clarke, Sam Shepard, and Joseph Chaikin that I found to be devastating.
September 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Getting a head start on a film group Halloween Challenge of first time watches, plus a collaboration from Shirley Clarke, Sam Shepard, and Joseph Chaikin that I found to be devastating.
Halloween Challenge #3 (Slasher) A head-turning American Giallo from the director of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and some solid noirs. The mystery is obvious, but the kills have a wicked sense of humor. boxd.it/gtFbbb
A ★★★ review of Night School (1981)
Night School is an interesting American spin on the giallo, filtering black leather, psychosexual intrigue, and elaborate murders through the early ’80s slasher boom. I’m counting it toward the Slashe...
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September 25, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Halloween Challenge #3 (Slasher) A head-turning American Giallo from the director of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and some solid noirs. The mystery is obvious, but the kills have a wicked sense of humor. boxd.it/gtFbbb
Halloween Challenge #2 Barbara Steele wanders around a Scottish castle trying to determine whether she’s being haunted, manipulated, or punished. Psychological horror, but “Barbara Steele looking increasingly alarmed while blood drips from the ceiling” should be its own genre. boxd.it/gsS5TD
A ★★★ review of The Ghost (1963)
Halloween Challenge #2 (Psychological Horror) Gothic vibes for days. The Ghost gives Barbara Steele exactly what she needs: a gloomy Scottish castle, séances, murder plots, secret passageways, and ple...
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September 24, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Halloween Challenge #2 Barbara Steele wanders around a Scottish castle trying to determine whether she’s being haunted, manipulated, or punished. Psychological horror, but “Barbara Steele looking increasingly alarmed while blood drips from the ceiling” should be its own genre. boxd.it/gsS5TD
The future has apparently always been hungry. First Halloween Challenge watch: FIEND WITHOUT A FAVE (1958) (1950s Sci-Fi) boxd.it/grZu1V
A ★★★½ review of Fiend Without a Face (1958)
What happens when the thing we built develops an appetite? My first official watch of the 2026 Halloween Challenge takes me straight into Fiend Without a Face. A scientist with questionable motives co...
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September 23, 2026 at 1:56 PM
The future has apparently always been hungry. First Halloween Challenge watch: FIEND WITHOUT A FAVE (1958) (1950s Sci-Fi) boxd.it/grZu1V
‘Tis the season. Or close enough. Time to get watching. boxd.it/Xs04K
Halloween 2026: First Time Watches
1 Slasher The House on Sorority Row (1982) 2 Animal monster Long Weekend (1978) 3 Alien monster Xtro (1982) 4 Haunted house The Sentinel (1977) 5 Supernatural monster The Boogey Man (1980) 6 50s ...
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September 21, 2026 at 12:46 PM
‘Tis the season. Or close enough. Time to get watching. boxd.it/Xs04K
Currently waiting for a 75th anniversary tribute to start for Nelson Algren’s Chicago: City on the Make while overhearing some guy tell a story about how his stint as Studs Terkel’s driver in 2000 didn’t go well. Could not be happier right now.
September 20, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Currently waiting for a 75th anniversary tribute to start for Nelson Algren’s Chicago: City on the Make while overhearing some guy tell a story about how his stint as Studs Terkel’s driver in 2000 didn’t go well. Could not be happier right now.
It was like a hipster tea ceremony. Costa Rican white honey coffee is just what today apparently needed.
September 20, 2026 at 8:55 PM
It was like a hipster tea ceremony. Costa Rican white honey coffee is just what today apparently needed.
A black coffee afternoon.
September 20, 2026 at 8:41 PM
A black coffee afternoon.
Rainy day visit to the Intuit Art Museum. Some truly startling pieces on display. I was really struck the number of self-taught artists: (1) on a mission from God; (2) working on something in the shed; and/or (3) transforming their space into a living display.
September 20, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Rainy day visit to the Intuit Art Museum. Some truly startling pieces on display. I was really struck the number of self-taught artists: (1) on a mission from God; (2) working on something in the shed; and/or (3) transforming their space into a living display.
A real missed opportunity to play this one out with Frank Sinatra’s The Summer Wind over the final image of Clytemnestra watching the Greek fleet sail from Aulis. boxd.it/govA0R
A ★★★★½ review of Iphigenia (1977)
What kind of prayers does an infanticide pray? Michael Cacoyannis’s Iphigenia is grim, sun-blasted Greek tragedy filmed with an almost physical sense of dread. The gods may be calling for the sacrific...
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September 19, 2026 at 4:34 PM
A real missed opportunity to play this one out with Frank Sinatra’s The Summer Wind over the final image of Clytemnestra watching the Greek fleet sail from Aulis. boxd.it/govA0R
September 18, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Game time. Go Bills!
September 18, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Game time. Go Bills!
Nelson Algren’s Chicago City on the Make in the literary key to unlocking Michael Mann’s Thief. CBhttps://boxd.it/gkae 7D
A ★★★★★ review of Thief (1981)
Michael Mann’s Thief presents Chicago as a machine of steel, money, labor, and organized power. Nelson Algren’s Chicago: City on the Make feels like the film’s literary key: a city of hustlers, worker...
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September 14, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Nelson Algren’s Chicago City on the Make in the literary key to unlocking Michael Mann’s Thief. CBhttps://boxd.it/gkae 7D
I believe I have landed on the proper combination for watching the Cubs at Wrigley tomorrow while the Bills game is on.
September 12, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I believe I have landed on the proper combination for watching the Cubs at Wrigley tomorrow while the Bills game is on.
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday This week called for the certified badassery of Meiko Kaji. Shirley Clarke and Pedro Olea shorts for the win.
September 11, 2026 at 3:30 AM
#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday This week called for the certified badassery of Meiko Kaji. Shirley Clarke and Pedro Olea shorts for the win.
Not the result for which I was hoping (Cubs lost 4-3). But amazing day at the ballpark swapping stories with Cubs and Brewers fans alike. Couldn’t ask for a nicer day in Milwaukee!
September 7, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Not the result for which I was hoping (Cubs lost 4-3). But amazing day at the ballpark swapping stories with Cubs and Brewers fans alike. Couldn’t ask for a nicer day in Milwaukee!
Maxine was more than willing to help with my frittes cone tonight at Cafe Hollander.
September 7, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Maxine was more than willing to help with my frittes cone tonight at Cafe Hollander.