Benson is a well-regarded but otherwise unremarkable American sitcom. It focuses on the antics of the titular character in his role as the state’s governor’s…
CIPC #488: Babar S6 E3, Land of games
Babar, king of Celesteville and elephant to boot, started in a series of French children’s books all the way back in the early thirties, originally…
CIPC #487: Hot hot heat, Middle of nowhere
Given the recent weather in Western Europe, now seems the perfect time to spotlight the Canadian indie rock band Hot hot heat.1 From what I’ve…
CIPC #486: InterCity ad
It may be hard to imagine nowadays, but there was a time that British trains were reputable.1 So when British rail launched an advertisement depicting…
CIPC #485: Pat a Mat S1 E8, Světlo
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…