I’ve discussed one or two horror thrillers on this blog, but this one is a bit of an oddity. I don’t mean the plot which…
CIPC #405: Holiday in handcuffs
Last week’s movie about the sadistic serial killer was kind of fun, but this one is really disturbing. When in Copycat someone goes around gleefully…
CIPC #404: Copycat
There is an old aphorism that claims reality is weirder than fiction but, like most aphorisms, it is mostly bullshit. Take, for example, our subject…
CIPC #398: Ghostbusters: Frozen empire
The last time we met the Ghostbusters, they were a few young teenagers busting ghosts in a small Midwestern town. Now they are a couple…
CIPC #395: Gretel & Hansel
This is a bizarre film. It’s obviously based on the Grimm brothers fairytale, but it has very little to do with it. There’s no evil…
CIPC #389: The boy in the plastic bubble
Before Saturday night fever, before Grease, and only a couple of days after Carrie hit theatres, John Travolta had already been the star in his…
CIPC #385: American pie presents: Beta house
All the great artists suffer for their craft, but I do, too. Every now and then, I sit through one of those godawful attempts at…
CIPC #384: Hot fuzz
One of the mainstays of this blog are detective movies with often rather perfunctory appearances of chess and today’s subject, Hot fuzz, is no different.…
CIPC #381: An American werewolf in London
Wikipedia calls this a horror comedy, and that is quite a reasonable description: it consists of some ninety minutes of pretty standard horror movie followed…
CIPC #378: Deadlier than the male
Third time’s the charm! Our subject from two weeks ago featured pieces based on the Lewis chessmen. Our subject from last week featured pieces based…