Sadly, I will not be discussing an actual spaceship in this post. It would be astonishing, wouldn’t it, if a chess scene were painted on…
CIPC #288: Ninja in the killing fields
Today, we’re going to talk about an obscure niche of pop culture you quite probably have never heard of: Hong Kong hack jobs. That’s not…
CIPC #283: The black shield of Falworth
Which genres of movies are popular varies widely over time. Nowadays, the big thing are superhero movies, which didn’t really exist fifty years ago. On…
CIPC #280: The rebel set
It’s been several months time since we last talked about a movie. So let’s do something about that. Our subject today, The rebel set, is…
CIPC #268: The invisible boy
From the title The invisible boy, you might guess that this is some fifties b-movie, perhaps like The day the Earth stood still or The…
CIPC #261: It! The terror from beyond space
Sometimes a title tells you everything you need to know. If your movie is called It! The terror from beyond space, it is bound to…
CIPC #258: My cousin Vinny
After last week’s crime drama, there’s a courtroom comedy on the menu today. It is a film from 1992. At least, that’s the mainstream theory.…
CIPC #257: The silent partner
The silent partner was recommended to me by one of my readers – a silent partner, if you like. It is a 1978 movie about…
CIPC #256: Dance of the vampires
Dance of the vampires is a film by Roman Polanski which is supposed to fuse comedy and horror but falls a good distance short of…
CIPC #249: Ogroff
If you are an avid reader of this blog, you know that I have seen a fair amount of god awful movies. You have seen…