A summary of what I covered in February and March at Cocktails & Crime . A recap of this year’s Noir City Seattle , four nights of which I hosted solo. Revisiting Elmore Leonard’s Get Sh...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2024/04/cocktails-and-crime-catch-up.html
The main thing you need to know: Noir City Seattle is coming back from February 16—22, and I’ll be serving as your host for the final four nights. Meanwhile, here’s what I’ve written ...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2024/02/2024-so-far-at-cocktails-and-crime.html
Is there ever going to be a year I’m sorry to see end? I seem to remember that happening. In any event, bring on 2024. 2023 did turn out to be when I returned to blog-style writing. It just...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2023/12/farewell-2023-and-december-at-cocktails.html
Hey, Substack is pivoting to video ! I’m sure that bodes well for the future. I understand how the game is played. Platforms evolve to the point where they eventually stop doing what you wa...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2023/11/november-at-cocktails-and-crime.html
I’m keeping busy at Cocktails and Crime , my Substack newsletter. This month’s offerings: The ten-year anniversary of my first book, Down the Hatch: One Man’s One Year Odyssey Through C...
Another month, another series of posts you can have delivered straight to your inbox for free. Here’s a recap of what appeared in my Substack newsletter Cocktails and Crime . I resurrected...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2023/09/september-cocktails-and-crime-round-up.html
Things continue to go swimmingly at Cocktails and Crime , my Substack newsletter. Remember, sign-up is free. Here’s what was delivered to subscribers’ in-boxes in August. The HBO documen...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2023/08/august-at-cocktails-and-crime.html
In less than a month, my Substack newsletter Cocktails and Crime has racked up subscribers in the triple digits. Thanks to everyone who has signed up. If you haven’t, there’s no time like th...
Short version: I’ve got a new Substack called Cocktails and Crime, which will be the home for most of my ramblings going forward, so if you’re at all interested in whatever thoughts wander in...
What I’m Watching Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre (2023). “Piss-take” is too good a term to be used solely by our cousins across the pond. For me, a piss-take isn’t a parody so much as...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2023/06/piss-takes-hurt-feelings-and-vamping.html
The Seattle International Film Festival ended on May 28, and I’m only getting around to it now. Which may be just as well, considering that my two favorite movies from this year’s fest are a...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2023/06/what-im-watching-all-siff-edition.html
I’m on strike at the moment, and that moment may last a while. Might as well keep limber by making a few recommendations. What I’m Watching Rabbit Hole (Paramount+). I waited until all eig...
What I’m Reading The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder, by Lawrence Block (2023). I’m faced with a tricky proposition in recommending this book, which I am absolutely doing. For one thing, i...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2023/04/one-last-round-for-april.html
Last week, the thought came to me unbidden: Holy shit, I have a Post account! It’s true . Back when Twitter first went into convulsions, Post seemed the most viable alternative. I set up shop,...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2023/04/demented-and-sad-but-social.html
It’ll be a footnote when the definitive history of Covid-19 is written, but it’s worth pointing out: Rosemarie’s employer was one of the first—possibly the first—in the United States t...
It took me long enough, but I finally figured out that social media, particularly Twitter, has become what the Krell overlooked in Forbidden Planet (1956): the monsters from the id. Subconscious ...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2023/02/the-format-is-formula.html
Fake Money, Blue Smoke, by Josh Haven (2022). Nothing beats going into a novel cold and having it completely knock you out. A veteran of the war in Iraq is released from prison and finds an ex-...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2023/02/a-few-february-recommendations.html
It’s hard to believe that the dark carnival that is the Noir City Film Festival first pitched its tents twenty years ago. Eddie Muller and the Film Noir Foundation just finished feting the ...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2023/01/noir-city-seattle-schedule.html
I made some noise earlier this month, back in new year’s resolution season, about updating the blog on a more regular basis. Trouble is, you need to have something to talk about. Expect semi-r...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2023/01/midish-january-ramblin-recs.html
Issue 36 of the Film Noir Foundation ’s magazine Noir City is now out in both digital and print editions, and it marks a bittersweet moment for yours truly. It’s my final issue as editor-in-c...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2023/01/noir-city-well-meet-again-edition.html
Among the lessons of this odd year was one that shouldn’t have needed reinforcing: corporations are not to be trusted. As social media continues its death spiral—I’m still working out how I...
Just in time to plan your holiday viewing—and for the paperback release of the latest Renee Patrick novel Idle Gossip next week—comes my story at CrimeReads considering eighty years of Hit...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2022/12/theres-only-one-hitchor-is-there.html
Is it unseemly for me to say that this is best issue of Noir City yet? Very well then I am unseemly. (I am the editor, I contain multitudes.) (Also, sorry, Uncle Walt.) The latest edition of th...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2022/09/noir-city-two-directors-for-price-of.html
Who’s the anguished cover boy on the latest edition of Noir City magazine, published by the Film Noir Foundation and edited by yours truly? None other than William Holden. Despite his presenc...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2022/05/noir-city-man-that-got-away-edition.html
... but Idle Gossip, the latest Lillian Frost & Edith Head mystery that I wrote with Rosemarie under our house pseudonym Renee Patrick, is now out. People seem to like it. Let Renee tell you all ...
http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2022/05/probably-shouldve-mentioned-this-earlier.html