Hah! I didn’t quit at all! After the utter despair at the end of my last blog post you could have been forgiven for thinking…
CIPC #367: Scorpion S3 E16, Keep it in check mate
Let me start with a quick warning: this is one of the most irredeemably bullshit things we’re seen yet.1 So, Scorpion. It is a show…
CIPC #366: The inspector Alleyn mysteries S1 E3, The nursing home murder
If you want suspense in your murder mystery, you have essentially two options: either you make the victim widely hated, so that you have many…
CIPC #365: Five dolls for an August moon
One of the best things about gialli in general are the wonderfully meaningless but poetic titles: Blue eyes of the broken doll! The case of…
CIPC #364: Horror express
What would you get if Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing played in The Thing?1 A glorious cinematic masterpiece, you would expect, which makes Horror express…
CIPC #363: Van der Valk S3 E12, Diane
Time and time again, when I encounter yet another British detective series with a chess scene, I have to write a paragraph expressing my astonishment…
CIPC #362: Team America: World police
One very popular long running show that hasn’t appeared on this blog so far is South Park. The reason is that, as far as I…
CIPC #361: Madonna, The power of good-bye
I spotlighted Madonna once before on this blog — long, long ago, when she was still famous. Back then, I talked about the music video…
CIPC #360: Doom asylum
Doom asylum is one of those dime-a-dozen eighties horror comedies. The concept of the movie is that someone gets into a car accident, is wrongfully…
CIPC #359: Macintosh 1984 keynote speech
This year, it is precisely forty years ago that the first Macintosh computers were released on an unsuspecting world. With a full one hundred and…