The wire is one of the most critically acclaimed television series in history, charting at number six in IMDB’s top list at the time of…
CIPC #168: TheOdd1sOut, Tabletop games
This is a blog about chess in popular culture, but I feel that my subjects haven’t been very popular lately. Who watches Wing commander? Who…
CIPC #167: Wing commander
It is received wisdom that any video game based on a movie has an good chance to blow. Hard. In the bell-end of a horn.…
CIPC #166: Young Sherlock Holmes
After almost a hundred blog posts, Sherlock Holmes once more turns in an appearance, but this time in a younger form. Young Sherlock Holmes is…
CIPC #165: Entr’acte
Once again we have a novelty on this blog. Not that it is anything at all recent, in fact, our subject today is from all…
CIPC #164: Ahzee, King
After one hundred sixty three blog post, I can apparently still stumble upon something which is novel: I have never written about a DJ before.…
CIPC #163: Friday the 13th part 2
This blog is, as the name suggests, about chess in pop culture. Last week, we talked about the culture part, today we’ll deal with the…
CIPC #162: M. C. Escher, Metamorphose II
I assume, I guess, I hope, that Dutch artist M. C. Escher needs no introduction. His lithographs and woodcuts have penetrated the farthest corners of…
CIPC #161: Jay Richard Kennedy, Schach dem Vorsitzenden
Perhaps you have heard of a 1969 movie called The chairman? Maybe under its alternative title The most dangerous man in the world? It was…
CIPC #160: Jonny Quest E.19, Attack of the tree people
By a bit of an accident, I recently stumbled upon the existence of a franchise with three different TV-series, two made-for-TV movies, a series of…