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Author: Nikolaas Verhulst

CIPC #127: Justin Timberlake feat. Jay Z, Suit & Tie

Posted on July 9, 2019

Justin Timberlake started his career all the way back in the early nineties as a member of the boy band NSYNC . In the two…

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CIPC #126: The prisoner, Arrival

Posted on July 2, 2019

The prisoner is a delightful cocktail of sixties futurism and mystery fiction with a liberal dash of the Kafkaesque. It is about a former secret…

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CIPC #125: The invisible ghost

Posted on June 25, 2019

Before Ben Kingsley, before Michael Ironside, before Lee Van Cleef even, the guy you went to if you wanted a memorable villain for your Hollywood…

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CIPC #124: The blob

Posted on June 18, 2019

We will stay in the wonderful, whimsical world of the creature feature for just a while longer, but in contrast to last week’s Creature from…

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CIPC #123: Creature from the haunted sea

Posted on June 11, 2019June 11, 2019

Long before Michael Bay and Steven Seagal were the schlockmeisters par excellence of the film world, way, way back in the swinging sixties, the b-movie…

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CIPC #122: meetup.com commercial

Posted on June 4, 2019

Apparently, there are people out there. As if that thought wasn’t scary enough, those people sometimes want to meet each other. This is precisely what…

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CIPC #121: Zorro S1 E1, Welcome to Monterey

Posted on May 28, 2019

Here we are again. Like a murderer returning to the scene of the crime, I always seem to circle back to Zorro.1 This time, we…

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CIPC #120: The lodger: A story of the London fog

Posted on May 21, 2019

One might easily forget it, but the great Alfred Hitchcock started his career all the way back in the twenties, more than thirty years before…

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CIPC #119: Translucid Vol.2

Posted on May 14, 2019

Translucid is an artsy take on the superhero genre published by BOOM! studios in six instalments between April and September 2014. I must admit that…

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CIPC #118: Barbie in the 12 dancing princesses

Posted on May 7, 2019

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any single thing capable of making a fortune must be in want of a movie script to be…

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