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CIPC #124: The blob

Posted on June 18, 2019

We will stay in the wonderful, whimsical world of the creature feature for just a while longer, but in contrast to last week’s Creature from…

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CIPC #123: Creature from the haunted sea

Posted on June 11, 2019June 11, 2019

Long before Michael Bay and Steven Seagal were the schlockmeisters par excellence of the film world, way, way back in the swinging sixties, the b-movie…

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CIPC #120: The lodger: A story of the London fog

Posted on May 21, 2019

One might easily forget it, but the great Alfred Hitchcock started his career all the way back in the twenties, more than thirty years before…

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CIPC #118: Barbie in the 12 dancing princesses

Posted on May 7, 2019

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any single thing capable of making a fortune must be in want of a movie script to be…

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CIPC #115: The Addams family

Posted on April 16, 2019

The Addams family is the story of an old noble family with an enormous fortune, a slight supernatural touch, and a distinct taste for the…

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CIPC #114: At land

Posted on April 9, 2019

At land is not as well-known as the movies I usually feature in this series, so maybe some explanation is in order. It is a…

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CIPC #105: The bone collector

Posted on February 6, 2019

The bone collector. With a title like that, who can blame me that I was expecting a thrilling tale of ruthless rivalry, fierce competition, and…

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CIPC #100: Vacanze di natale ’91

Posted on December 25, 2018

As the number of blog posts you’ve written increases, the speed at which you encounter nice, round numbers unfortunately decreases, so you have to savour…

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CIPC #93: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett

Posted on November 6, 2018

Today, we travel all the way back to 1924. The roaring twenties! It’s the time of the Weimar republic, Jazz is becoming big, Joyce’s Ulysses…

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CIPC #91: Basil, the great mouse detective

Posted on October 23, 2018October 24, 2018

When people talk about great Disney movies, they usually mention Fantasia, Toy story, The lion king – but no one ever mentions Basil, the great…

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