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CIPC #484: Het Klokhuis 07-09-2023

Posted on June 30, 2026June 30, 2026

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…

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CIPC #483: China doll

Posted on June 23, 2026June 23, 2026

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…

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CIPC #482: P!nk, Just like fire

Posted on June 17, 2026June 17, 2026

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,…

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CIPC #481: Dracula 2: The last sanctuary

Posted on June 9, 2026June 9, 2026

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,…

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CIPC #480: Robin Hoed Vol.2, Laat maar waaien!..

Posted on June 3, 2026

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…

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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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