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 #383: The inspector Alleyn mysteries S2E2, Dead water
The inspector Alleyn mysteries ran only very briefly, for a mere nine episodes. Yet it now features for the second time on this blog. After…
CIPC #382: OxyChem ad
When I first learned about the existence of a company called OxyChem — which happened shortly before this post — I immediately assumed they somehow…
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 #380: Monty python’s flying circus S1 E5, Man’s crisis of identity in the latter half of the 20th century
I have quite some trepidation as I start writing this post, because I will have to judge the pythons!1 Their flying circus is perhaps the…