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…
CIPC #261: It! The terror from beyond space
Sometimes a title tells you everything you need to know. If your movie is called It! The terror from beyond space, it is bound to…
CIPC #258: My cousin Vinny
After last week’s crime drama, there’s a courtroom comedy on the menu today. It is a film from 1992. At least, that’s the mainstream theory.…
CIPC #257: The silent partner
The silent partner was recommended to me by one of my readers – a silent partner, if you like. It is a 1978 movie about…
CIPC #256: Dance of the vampires
Dance of the vampires is a film by Roman Polanski which is supposed to fuse comedy and horror but falls a good distance short of…
CIPC #253: The lone wolf spy hunt
During the course of the years, this blog has put the spotlight on a number of forgotten merchandises: The crime doctor, the Philo Vance series,…
CIPC #249: Ogroff
If you are an avid reader of this blog, you know that I have seen a fair amount of god awful movies. You have seen…
CIPC #247: House of Frankenstein
By 1944, when House of Frankenstein was released, the Universal horror movies their monsters and their stars already had a reputation. And this movie had…