Did you know Jethro Tull is still around? Yes, the rock band with the flute that brought a decomposed version version of the Bourrée from…
CIPC #433: Larsson, Schackspelet
Every once in a while, I like to give this blog a temporary and unconvincing sheen of refinement by spotlighting a painting. Since the current…
CIPC #432: “Hukkunud alpinisti” hotell
Today, we’re dealing with an Estonian film, of all things. It’s based on a novel by the Strugatsky brothers of the same name, which apparently…
CIPC #431: Todd Rundgren, Change myself
Todd Rundgren is not really a household name. In the US he scored one top ten hit in 1973, with a couple of other minor…
CIPC #430: Incomplete
My faithful readers know that I can stomach very, very bad movies. But where I may laugh at terrible thrillers or cringe at crappy comedies,…
CIPC #429: Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron is, without a doubt, one of the most well-known science fiction stories ever. It is not surprising, then, that it was…
CIPC #428: Target
The two main roles in this movie — and they are the only roles, really — are played by Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon, good…
CIPC #427: Stained glass window
This has never happened before and it’s never going to happen again: I’m talking about a stained glass window. Yes, an honest-to-God medieval stained glass…
CIPC #426: Chocky’s children E3
I’ve talked a great deal about British television series on this blog, but they were almost exclusively detective series. We have not featured any of…
CIPC #425: Asylum
Continuing our theme of unsettlingly recent subjects, we’re going to talk about a point-and-click horror adventure game released in March 2025 after spending well over…