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CIPC #132: The prisoner, Checkmate

Posted on August 13, 2019

I have written about The prisoner before; if you don’t know what it is, you should probably read the first few sentences of that post.…

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CIPC #131: Die Csárdásfürstin

Posted on August 7, 2019

Emmerich Kálmán is perhaps not the most well-known name in Western history, but in the small world of the operetta, it is often mentioned together…

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CIPC #130: Breaking bad S3 E6, Sunset

Posted on July 31, 2019

About a decade ago, Breaking bad was the hottest thing on television. It was a television series about a chemistry teacher diagnosed with cancer who…

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CIPC #129: Roxette, It must have been love

Posted on July 23, 2019

I have always thought it rather strange that there is so much Swedish pop music. In classical music, the Swedish presence is basically nil, but…

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CIPC #128: Keds advertisement

Posted on July 16, 2019

Keds is a brand of sneakers. As in, footwear. But you wouldn’t be able to tell from their advertisement. Case in point: the image below,…

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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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