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CIPC #453: Sam S2 E7, Credit

Posted on November 26, 2025November 26, 2025

On hearing there was a British television series called Sam, I got my hopes up that perhaps it would be about Samwise Gamgee, greatest person…

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CIPC #452: Nek, Laura non c’รจ

Posted on November 19, 2025

After seeing the title, you’re perhaps thinking I have finally run out of material and have decided to start complaining that random body parts don’t…

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CIPC #451: Ace Venture: when nature calls

Posted on November 12, 2025November 12, 2025

In the nineties, between Forrest Gump and Jack Sparrow, there was a trend to build movies around off and slightly dim goofballs. But writing such…

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CIPC #450: Columbo S3 E6, Mind over mayhem

Posted on November 5, 2025

While we’re on the subject of good American detective series, it is maybe a good time to revisit our old friend Columbo. Last time we…

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Chess in popular culture

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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