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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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CIPC #449: Dark Winds S1 E6, Ye’iitsoh

Posted on October 29, 2025October 29, 2025

Generally, American police series have a monstrous amount of episodes, each more frantic and less believable than the next.1 Not so with Dark Winds. The…

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CIPC #448: Karina Schaapman, Sam & Julia

Posted on October 22, 2025October 22, 2025

Writing a children’s book must be easy. The story is short and simple. You don’t need to come up with creative metaphors or beautiful sentences,…

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CIPC #447: Heartworm

Posted on October 15, 2025

What could a throwback survival horror game with the title Heartworm possibly be about? The obvious answer is that the parasitic worm of that name…

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CIPC #446: Ghosts S1 E2, Gorilla war

Posted on October 7, 2025October 7, 2025

You know what? I like this show.1  It’s a pleasant, light-hearted British sitcom which has the considerable benefit over most sitcoms that it is actually…

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CIPC #445: Kid-E-Cats S1 E43, Chess mates

Posted on September 30, 2025September 30, 2025

 Sometimes I wonder whether I’ve not been doing this for too long now. It’s gotten to the point where I write about an obscure Russian…

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CIPC #444: Fideel de fluwelen ridder No.175

Posted on September 24, 2025

My younger reader may not realise it, but, in the olden days, news streams had to put all the news items in writing, have them…

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CIPC #443: Book cover galore II

Posted on September 16, 2025

Long time ago, when the world was still young and this blog was in its early childhood, I wrote a post in which I trained…

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CIPC #442: Leave it to Beaver S6 E8, Bachelor at large

Posted on September 9, 2025September 9, 2025

Leave it to Beaver is perhaps the stereotypical sixties sitcom. The main characters form a typical middle-class family with two kids, mom as a housewife,…

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