Dysentery, poisonous snakes, sabotage and a 320-ton ship being pushed up a mountain in the Amazon. People got hurt. People went nuts. People actually died. How could this not make for an intense movie? And […]
Author: Kevin Leicinger
Too Late For Tears
The New York Times described it as “a yarn about a cash-hungry dame who doesn’t let men or conscience stand in her way.” TOO LATE FOR TEARS was Lizabeth Scott at her most manipulative and […]
Heavy Metal Loser
So, there was this guy who became kind of a heavy metal god. He sold over 38 million records and was worshiped by both audiences and fellow musicians alike. And yet, if you take what […]
Cornell’s Alien Artifacts
“Somewhere in the city of New York there are four or five still-unknown objects that belong together. Once together they’ll make a work of art. That’s Cornell’s premise, his metaphysics, and his religion.” That was […]
Heartbreak City: Thanks a ton, Colson Whitehead!
I lived in New York for seventeen years. I never thought I would leave. It was the place I belonged. A place of constant energy and incredible beauty. Just being there made me feel like […]
A Classic Sex Scandal
1963, England. Christine Keeler, just nineteen, was having sex with the much older, and married, Secretary of War. To make matters worse, said nineteen-year-old was also having sex regularly with the Soviet Naval Attache. Resignations […]
Duffy’s David Bowie Photographs
SCARY MONSTERS was, in my humble opinion (IMHO to you under 30s), the last truly great Bowie album. In celebration of that fantastic album I thought I would post some photos of Bowie from the […]
The Stranger and the Cure
The Stranger by Camus. A short book. A great read. A book that could change your life. On the surface it’s a simple story of a man who takes a vacation to help him recover […]
The Death of Godzilla
They actually did it. They killed the King. In 1995, Toho announced that they would be ending the Godzilla film franchise and making one, last, movie featuring the big guy. He would die. And, the […]
