‘t is the season to be jolly! To put a tree with more decoration than Idi Amin in a prominent place in the house. To…
CIPC #146: Wolfen
Wolfen is a supernatural thriller from 1981, mainly known for starring Albert Finney. The plot starts in a very standard fashion: people are being murdered…
CIPC #141: La Bayadère (bis)
‘Wait!’ I hear you exclaim, ‘La Bayadère? Didn’t you talk about that before?’ I did! In fact, it is the same Makarova adaptation of Petipa’s…
CIPC #140: Final move
One thing I haven’t done yet this year, is commenting on a chess-themed movie. More than a hundred blog posts ago, I commented on Lang…
CIPC #133: Das schwarze Schaf
Who is the greatest detective from British fiction? Is it Sherlock Holmes? Perhaps Hercule Poirot or Mrs. Marple? Is it brother Cadfael? Do the famous…
CIPC #131: Die Csárdásfürstin
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…
CIPC #125: The invisible ghost
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…
CIPC #124: The blob
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…
CIPC #123: Creature from the haunted sea
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…
CIPC #120: The lodger: A story of the London fog
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…