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…
CIPC #377: Atlas
We’re doing a remarkable recent movie today. The first Netflix movie we feature, I believe! The plot is that Jennifer Lopez is desperately trying to…
CIPC #375: Righteous kill
It’s been almost half a year since we dealt with a serial killer. For this blog, that’s extraordinary. But today we accompany Robert De Niro…
CIPC #371: Sinbad and the eye of the tiger
In the summer of 1977, when the first Star Wars was released, it went up against a large sword-and-sorcery franchise that had been established for…
CIPC #365: Five dolls for an August moon
One of the best things about gialli in general are the wonderfully meaningless but poetic titles: Blue eyes of the broken doll! The case of…
CIPC #364: Horror express
What would you get if Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing played in The Thing?1 A glorious cinematic masterpiece, you would expect, which makes Horror express…