After last week’s crime drama, there’s a courtroom comedy on the menu today. It is a film from 1992. At least, that’s the mainstream theory.…
CIPC #257: The silent partner
The silent partner was recommended to me by one of my readers – a silent partner, if you like. It is a 1978 movie about…
CIPC #256: Dance of the vampires
Dance of the vampires is a film by Roman Polanski which is supposed to fuse comedy and horror but falls a good distance short of…
CIPC #253: The lone wolf spy hunt
During the course of the years, this blog has put the spotlight on a number of forgotten merchandises: The crime doctor, the Philo Vance series,…
CIPC #249: Ogroff
If you are an avid reader of this blog, you know that I have seen a fair amount of god awful movies. You have seen…
CIPC #247: House of Frankenstein
By 1944, when House of Frankenstein was released, the Universal horror movies their monsters and their stars already had a reputation. And this movie had…
CIPC #230: Robot & Frank
Last week, we talked about one of the most well-known movies of all time. Today, we look at a far lesser known one: Robot &…
CIPC #229: The great dictator
Today, we dissect the greatest of the great, because The great dictator is probably the greatest movie by the greatest silent movie actor: Charles Chaplin.…
CIPC #225: Crime doctor’s warning
Have you ever heard of the Crime doctor franchise? It is about doctor Ordway, a criminal psychologist who helps the police solve cases. Nowadays, it…
CIPC #219: The Da Vinci code
Here’s an interesting observation about pop culture in 2021: there hasn’t been a book craze in quite a while. Some twenty years ago, there was…