All the great artists suffer for their craft, but I do, too. Every now and then, I sit through one of those godawful attempts at…
CIPC #384: Hot fuzz
One of the mainstays of this blog are detective movies with often rather perfunctory appearances of chess and today’s subject, Hot fuzz, is no different.…
CIPC #383: The inspector Alleyn mysteries S2E2, Dead water
The inspector Alleyn mysteries ran only very briefly, for a mere nine episodes. Yet it now features for the second time on this blog. After…
CIPC #382: OxyChem ad
When I first learned about the existence of a company called OxyChem — which happened shortly before this post — I immediately assumed they somehow…
CIPC #381: An American werewolf in London
Wikipedia calls this a horror comedy, and that is quite a reasonable description: it consists of some ninety minutes of pretty standard horror movie followed…
CIPC #380: Monty python’s flying circus S1 E5, Man’s crisis of identity in the latter half of the 20th century
I have quite some trepidation as I start writing this post, because I will have to judge the pythons!1 Their flying circus is perhaps the…
CIPC #379: Honda Ridgeline ad
We’re finally leaving the Lewis chessmen behind, but we’re not quite back to normal pieces: they’re still human sized. And they figure in a commercial…
CIPC #378: Deadlier than the male
Third time’s the charm! Our subject from two weeks ago featured pieces based on the Lewis chessmen. Our subject from last week featured pieces based…
CIPC #377: Atlas
We’re doing a remarkable recent movie today. The first Netflix movie we feature, I believe! The plot is that Jennifer Lopez is desperately trying to…
CIPC #376: Blonde redhead, Melody
You have probably never heard of Blonde redhead. I, at least, had never heard of Blonde redhead.1 It is apparently an American indie rock band.…