When the Where’s Wally? series1 conquered the world in the late eighties and early nineties, it more or less introduced the find-the-figure book to the…
CIPC #390: Der Alte E244, Drei Schüße ins Herz
Midsomer murders, probably the most frequent subject of our derision, has been running for almost three decades and there have been, at the time of…
CIPC #389: The boy in the plastic bubble
Before Saturday night fever, before Grease, and only a couple of days after Carrie hit theatres, John Travolta had already been the star in his…
CIPC #388: Chromophobia
If there is one thing that Belgium is worse at than chess, it’s probably directing films. But like we have Colle and O’Kelly, so do…
CIPC #387: Lewis S6 E3, Fearful symmetry
Yadda yadda detective yadda yadda Lewis. Look, we don’t have time for this. There’s far too much to talk about here, because one of the…
CIPC #386: Resident Evil HD
Imagine you get dropped in a remote place, called Raccoon city of all things, to investigate some bizarre murders but then half of your team…
CIPC #385: American pie presents: Beta house
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…