All in the family is an absolute classic in the ever — but unaccountably — popular sitcom genre of obnoxious people being terrible to each…
CIPC #315: MacGyver S1 E1, Pilot
One of the best ways to see the impact of a particular work on general culture is to look at the traces it left in…
CIPC #314: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Maid of Orleans
One reason I rarely discuss music videos on this blog is that I don’t know of that many which feature chess. Another reason is that…
CIPC #313: Maigret S2 E5, Maigret and the minister
I want to complain about something. Not just because I like complaining — although I definitely do — but because something has been bugging me.…
CIPC #312: The beast must die
#This movie is a bit weird. The writers seem to have had an idea for a movie, but no plausible way to set it up.…
CIPC #311: Tales from the darkside: The movie
Way, way back, in medieval times, framing devices were all the rage: there was Chaucer’s Canterbury tales, One thousand and one nights, the Heptaméron by…
CIPC #310: Mercedes-Benz ad
In 2008, South-Africa was already bracing itself for the big event that would briefly add the word vuvuzela to the world’s vocabulary: the 2010 FIFA…
CIPC #309: Taggart S20 E2, The wages of sin
When you made a new friend, it is only natural that you want to spend a lot of time with as soon as possible. Barely…
CIPC #308: The mouse on the moon
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 #307: Lewis S5 E4, The gift of promise
January ain’t over yet and we’re already on our second British detective series! That’s got to be some kind of record! Two weeks ago, we…