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Month: March 2024

CIPC #367: Scorpion S3 E16, Keep it in check mate

Posted on March 26, 2024

Let me start with a quick warning: this is one of the most irredeemably bullshit things we’re seen yet.1 So, Scorpion. It is a show…

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CIPC #366: The inspector Alleyn mysteries S1 E3, The nursing home murder

Posted on March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

If you want suspense in your murder mystery, you have essentially two options: either you make the victim widely hated, so that you have many…

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CIPC #365: Five dolls for an August moon

Posted on March 13, 2024March 13, 2024

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…

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CIPC #364: Horror express

Posted on March 5, 2024March 5, 2024

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…

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With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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