#This movie is a bit weird. The writers seem to have had an idea for a movie, but no plausible way to set it up.…
CIPC #311: Tales from the darkside: The movie
Way, way back, in medieval times, framing devices were all the rage: there was Chaucer’s Canterbury tales, One thousand and one nights, the Heptaméron by…
CIPC #308: The mouse on the moon
Maybe one day Disney will take over SpaceX and we will really get The Mouse on the moon. For now, however, it is just a…
CIPC #301: Stalag 17
A while ago, when I talked about Hogan’s heroes, I mentioned how odd of an idea it seemed to have a comedy set in a…
CIPC #298: Rage at dawn
That’s terrible advice. Clearly, you should rage in the late afternoon. At that point, most people have already had a stressful day and are ready…
CIPC #295: Hum Tum
Every now and then,1 I spotlight an ad on this blog. Today, I’ll write one. It’s going to be an ad for the Max Euwe…
CIPC #292: La habitación de Fermat
When Saw came out in 2004, it inspired a wide array of horror and thriller movies of wildly varying quality. One of them, with a…
CIPC #290: The first spaceship on Venus
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…