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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 #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 #117: House S3 E23, The Jerk

Posted on April 30, 2019May 27, 2019

I have remarked before that, as the number of episodes in a given television series tends to infinity, the probability of chess appearing at least…

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CIPC #116: Kelly, The plateau of chess

Posted on April 23, 2019

Unless you are a connoisseur of the graphic arts, the name Leon Kelly probably doesn’t mean much to you, so a short biographic note seems…

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CIPC #115: The Addams family

Posted on April 16, 2019

The Addams family is the story of an old noble family with an enormous fortune, a slight supernatural touch, and a distinct taste for the…

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CIPC #114: At land

Posted on April 9, 2019

At land is not as well-known as the movies I usually feature in this series, so maybe some explanation is in order. It is a…

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