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Author: Nikolaas Verhulst

CIPC #350: Becker S4 E1, Tell me lies

Posted on November 21, 2023December 29, 2023

I’ve never been able to get on with sitcoms. I suspect the reason is that, if you have characters in a normal environment and you…

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CIPC #349: House on the hill

Posted on November 14, 2023December 29, 2023

There is a whole wide world out there of indie horror games. They usually only last a couple of hours and are made on a…

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CIPC #348: Banacek S1 E1, Let’s hear it for a living legend

Posted on November 8, 2023November 13, 2023

During the relatively short history of television, an unfathomable number of detective series have been produced in every language under the sun, in all sorts…

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CIPC #347: Lacuna Coil, I forgive (but I won’t forget your name)

Posted on November 1, 2023December 29, 2023

It’s starting to get to the point that I myself can’t even remember everything I’ve talked about on this blog. When I decided to spotlight…

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CIPC #346: Cox Communications ad

Posted on October 25, 2023October 26, 2023

Cox Communications is a company that, among many other things, sells home security systems, including things like cameras, motion sensors, and of course — as…

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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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