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CIPC #371: Sinbad and the eye of the tiger

Posted on April 30, 2024April 30, 2024

In the summer of 1977, when the first Star Wars was released, it went up against a large sword-and-sorcery franchise that had been established for…

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CIPC #370: Cheers S5 E15, Spellbound [again]

Posted on April 24, 2024April 24, 2024

I have taken a page out of the complete idiot’s guide to Hollywood productions: if you have the material for a strong movie that’s going…

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CIPC #369: Cheers S5 E15, Spellbound

Posted on April 16, 2024April 16, 2024

Yet another sitcom on the blog. I’ll drink to that! Like so many sitcoms, it ran for well over a decade and had about a…

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CIPC #368: Rothmans ad

Posted on April 10, 2024April 10, 2024

Hah! I didn’t quit at all! After the utter despair at the end of my last blog post you could have been forgiven for thinking…

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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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