If you are from Belgium or France and you’re not too young, you have probably heard of Blueberry1 and you can skip to the next…
CIPC #436: Skinny ad
I had never heard of Skinny, but it’s apparently a New Zealand provider of mobile telephony and data plans. In 2020, they launched an apparently…
CIPC #435: Twin Peaks S2 E13, Checkmate
Twin Peaks is weird. Twin Peaks is deeply weird. Twin Peaks tackles painful and uncomfortable truths about human nature. Twin Peaks is rather funny at…
CIPC #434: Jethro Tull, The zealot gene
Did you know Jethro Tull is still around? Yes, the rock band with the flute that brought a decomposed version version of the Bourrée from…
CIPC #433: Larsson, Schackspelet
Every once in a while, I like to give this blog a temporary and unconvincing sheen of refinement by spotlighting a painting. Since the current…
CIPC #432: “Hukkunud alpinisti” hotell
Today, we’re dealing with an Estonian film, of all things. It’s based on a novel by the Strugatsky brothers of the same name, which apparently…
CIPC #431: Todd Rundgren, Change myself
Todd Rundgren is not really a household name. In the US he scored one top ten hit in 1973, with a couple of other minor…
CIPC #430: Incomplete
My faithful readers know that I can stomach very, very bad movies. But where I may laugh at terrible thrillers or cringe at crappy comedies,…
CIPC #429: Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron is, without a doubt, one of the most well-known science fiction stories ever. It is not surprising, then, that it was…
CIPC #428: Target
The two main roles in this movie — and they are the only roles, really — are played by Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon, good…