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…
CIPC #365: Five dolls for an August moon
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…
CIPC #364: Horror express
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…
CIPC #362: Team America: World police
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…
CIPC #360: Doom asylum
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…
CIPC #354: Slaughterhouse rulez
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…
CIPC #344: Ghostbusters: afterlife
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…
CIPC #342: The savage bees
It’s been too long since we’ve had a good old creature feature on this blog, so today we’re going to talk about The savage bees.…
CIPC #336: Out of Africa
Today’ subject is an absolute classic. It won seven Oscars,1 including best picture, best director, and best actress in a leading role for Meryl Streep.…
CIPC #327: Fighting mad
In the age-old tradition of Chess in popular culture, we’re going to talk about a franchise which was once huge but has now been relegated…