With a title like Pat a Mat, of course there must be a chess scene in this series! Yet that’s apparently a bit of a…
CIPC #484: Het Klokhuis 07-09-2023
The big advantage of making stuff for children is that your audience doesn’t have taste yet, so you can get away with a lot. And…
CIPC #483: China doll
Every movie is a product of its time, of course, but usually at least the basic premise is timeless. Romeo and Juliet, for example, can…
CIPC #482: P!nk, Just like fire
P!nk’s defining characteristic among pop singers is that her name is more likely than any other to occur in a mathematical formula. Apart from that,…
CIPC #481: Dracula 2: The last sanctuary
Bram Stoker could hardly have expected, when he published his one good book, that it would inspire whole genres of books, films, and computer games,…
CIPC #480: Robin Hoed Vol.2, Laat maar waaien!..
I give you a single guess for what folklore figure Belgian comic series Robin Hoed is based on and I’m not even going to give…
CIPC #479: Multi-Color Mood Ring ad
The car models, cognac brands, or lines of clothes in the ads that I spotlight on this blog have often disappeared, but at least those…
CIPC #478: The big bang theory S10 E13, The romance recalibration
Kids these days may not know it, but almost twenty years ago the fledgling internet was abuzz with a memes, pictures, and quotes from a…
CIPC #477: Il boia scarlatto
So you want to shoot a giallo. You have an idea: centuries ago, a mad hangman1 has been executed for his many crimes and now…
CIPC #476: Danger 5 S1 E1, I danced for Hitler!
Danger 5 is the most surreal television series I’ve spotlighted since Monty Python’s Flying Circus. It is set in a very unserious alternative universe during…