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Author: Nikolaas Verhulst

CIPC #385: American pie presents: Beta house

Posted on August 7, 2024August 7, 2024

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…

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CIPC #384: Hot fuzz

Posted on July 30, 2024July 30, 2024

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.…

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CIPC #383: The inspector Alleyn mysteries S2E2, Dead water

Posted on July 23, 2024July 26, 2024

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…

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CIPC #382: OxyChem ad

Posted on July 16, 2024July 16, 2024

When I first learned about the existence of a company called OxyChem — which happened shortly before this post — I immediately assumed they somehow…

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CIPC #381: An American werewolf in London

Posted on July 9, 2024July 9, 2024

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…

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CIPC #380: Monty python’s flying circus S1 E5, Man’s crisis of identity in the latter half of the 20th century

Posted on July 3, 2024

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…

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CIPC #379: Honda Ridgeline ad

Posted on June 25, 2024June 25, 2024

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…

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CIPC #378: Deadlier than the male

Posted on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024

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…

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CIPC #377: Atlas

Posted on June 12, 2024June 12, 2024

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…

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CIPC #376: Blonde redhead, Melody

Posted on June 5, 2024June 5, 2024

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.…

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With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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