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CIPC #378: Deadlier than the male

Posted on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024

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…

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CIPC #377: Atlas

Posted on June 12, 2024June 12, 2024

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…

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CIPC #375: Righteous kill

Posted on May 28, 2024May 28, 2024

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…

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CIPC #371: Sinbad and the eye of the tiger

Posted on April 30, 2024April 30, 2024

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…

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CIPC #365: Five dolls for an August moon

Posted on March 13, 2024March 13, 2024

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…

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CIPC #364: Horror express

Posted on March 5, 2024March 5, 2024

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…

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CIPC #362: Team America: World police

Posted on February 20, 2024February 20, 2024

One very popular long running show that hasn’t appeared on this blog so far is South Park. The reason is that, as far as I…

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CIPC #360: Doom asylum

Posted on February 6, 2024February 6, 2024

Doom asylum is one of those dime-a-dozen eighties horror comedies. The concept of the movie is that someone gets into a car accident, is wrongfully…

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CIPC #354: Slaughterhouse rulez

Posted on December 19, 2023December 19, 2023

The British have always reserved a rather prominent place in their fiction for boarding schools. From Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby all the way to Rowling’s Harry…

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CIPC #344: Ghostbusters: afterlife

Posted on October 10, 2023December 28, 2023

The original Ghostbusters movie was actually pretty damn good. But then came the sequels, the reboot, and our subject for today, the sequel to the…

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