When I first watched Fawlty Towers I wasn’t precisely blown away, but the more sitcoms I watch the more I appreciate it. Take for example…
CIPC #190: Kentucky Tavern ad
No interesting introduction this time. The New Yorker of February 2nd 1946 contains an advertisement for the Kentucky Tavern brand bourbon. It features a chess…
CIPC #189: Bill & Ted’s excellent adventure
For a brief period of time a the very end of the eighties and in the beginning of the nineties, Bill & Ted were big.…
CIPC #188: The rifleman S4 E7, The knight errant
Television may be a relatively recent phenomenon, but the ‘relatively’ in that sentence is becoming more pertinent with every passing year. Already, there are more…
CIPC #187: Thoroughbreds
Let’s continue this strange trend of recent movies appearing on this blog. Today’s victim is Thoroughbreds, a 2017 film starring Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy.…
CIPC #186: Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus E12, Warten auf Nachwuchs
Today, we feature our first German television series. Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus, German for “adventure 1900 – live on a manor”, was shown…
CIPC #185: Nero Vol.123, Wonderboy
Flemish people of a certain age might remember Nero from the newspapers, in which he featured for decades.1 Regular readers of this blog might know…
CIPC #184: Think like a dog
Is chess in terrible kids movies with talking pets a trend? First there was the horrendous Alvin and the chipmunks: The Squeakquel from 2009 and…
CIPC #183: Energizer ad
A chess player’s biggest dream, a chess player’s worst fear: the battery. A well-crafted battery, pointing confidently to the opponent’s king, is a source of…
CIPC #182: Broken sword: The shadow of the Templars
One upon a time, there were point-and-click adventure games. Sure, the genre still exists, but in the late eighties and the early nineties, when home…