Maybe one day Disney will take over SpaceX and we will really get The Mouse on the moon. For now, however, it is just a…
CIPC #301: Stalag 17
A while ago, when I talked about Hogan’s heroes, I mentioned how odd of an idea it seemed to have a comedy set in a…
CIPC #298: Rage at dawn
That’s terrible advice. Clearly, you should rage in the late afternoon. At that point, most people have already had a stressful day and are ready…
CIPC #295: Hum Tum
Every now and then,1 I spotlight an ad on this blog. Today, I’ll write one. It’s going to be an ad for the Max Euwe…
CIPC #292: La habitación de Fermat
When Saw came out in 2004, it inspired a wide array of horror and thriller movies of wildly varying quality. One of them, with a…
CIPC #290: The first spaceship on Venus
Sadly, I will not be discussing an actual spaceship in this post. It would be astonishing, wouldn’t it, if a chess scene were painted on…
CIPC #288: Ninja in the killing fields
Today, we’re going to talk about an obscure niche of pop culture you quite probably have never heard of: Hong Kong hack jobs. That’s not…
CIPC #283: The black shield of Falworth
Which genres of movies are popular varies widely over time. Nowadays, the big thing are superhero movies, which didn’t really exist fifty years ago. On…
CIPC #280: The rebel set
It’s been several months time since we last talked about a movie. So let’s do something about that. Our subject today, The rebel set, is…
CIPC #268: The invisible boy
From the title The invisible boy, you might guess that this is some fifties b-movie, perhaps like The day the Earth stood still or The…