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Author: Nikolaas Verhulst

CIPC #345: Doctor Who S15 E13, The sun makers part 1

Posted on October 18, 2023October 18, 2023

Let’s revisit our recent jelly-baby-loving, bescarfed friend Tom Baker, the fourth doctor. We meet him at the beginning of a new story about a company…

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CIPC #344: Ghostbusters: afterlife

Posted on October 10, 2023December 28, 2023

The original Ghostbusters movie was actually pretty damn good. But then came the sequels, the reboot, and our subject for today, the sequel to the…

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CIPC #343: Jain, Come

Posted on October 4, 2023December 28, 2023

Two weeks ago, I talked about a song perpetrated by one of our northern neighbours. Today, our southern neighbours get their day in the spotlights.…

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CIPC #342: The savage bees

Posted on September 27, 2023September 27, 2023

It’s been too long since we’ve had a good old creature feature on this blog, so today we’re going to talk about The savage bees.…

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CIPC #341: Jan Smit, Cupido

Posted on September 19, 2023December 28, 2023

This may be new for my international readers, but everyone from our little Dutch-speaking nook in Europe knows that pop songs in Dutch are massively…

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CIPC #340: Doctor Who S14 E17, The robots of death: part one

Posted on September 12, 2023September 16, 2023

Doctor Who is perhaps the biggest thing we haven’t covered yet on this blog.1 It started all the way back in the sixties and ran…

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CIPC #339: Beauty and the beast S1 E1, Once upon a time in the city of New York

Posted on September 5, 2023December 28, 2023

“Huh?” I hear you think “S1E1? Surely there’s no seasons or episodes in Beauty and the beast; it’s a film!” But no. First of all,…

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CIPC #338: Diggers ad

Posted on August 30, 2023August 30, 2023

We have spotlighted countless advertisements on this blog. For alcoholic drinks, for clothes, for cars, for all sorts of services — but not yet for…

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CIPC #337: Lexx S4 E18, The game

Posted on August 22, 2023December 28, 2023

I may just have witnessed the most bizarre thing to appear on this blog. It was an episode of a mostly forgotten science fiction series…

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CIPC #336: Out of Africa

Posted on August 15, 2023August 15, 2023

Today’ subject is an absolute classic. It won seven Oscars,1 including best picture, best director, and best actress in a leading role for Meryl Streep.…

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