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…
CIPC #118: Barbie in the 12 dancing princesses
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any single thing capable of making a fortune must be in want of a movie script to be…
CIPC #115: The Addams family
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…
CIPC #114: At land
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…
CIPC #105: The bone collector
The bone collector. With a title like that, who can blame me that I was expecting a thrilling tale of ruthless rivalry, fierce competition, and…
CIPC #100: Vacanze di natale ’91
As the number of blog posts you’ve written increases, the speed at which you encounter nice, round numbers unfortunately decreases, so you have to savour…
CIPC #93: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett
Today, we travel all the way back to 1924. The roaring twenties! It’s the time of the Weimar republic, Jazz is becoming big, Joyce’s Ulysses…
CIPC #91: Basil, the great mouse detective
When people talk about great Disney movies, they usually mention Fantasia, Toy story, The lion king – but no one ever mentions Basil, the great…
CIPC #88: A talent for murder
And once more we end up in our wheelhouse: crime fiction. This time, we’ll talk about a British made-for-tv movie from 1984. Angela Lansbury plays…
CIPC #80: Captain Kronos – Vampire hunter
Captain Kronos – Vampire hunter is not exactly the sort of title that inspires a lot of confidence, but, surprisingly, the movie is not that…