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CIPC #395: Gretel & Hansel

Posted on October 16, 2024February 15, 2025

This is a bizarre film. It’s obviously based on the Grimm brothers fairytale, but it has very little to do with it. There’s no evil…

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CIPC #394: Botany 500 ad

Posted on October 9, 2024October 9, 2024

I don’t think I’ve ever spotlighted suits here, probably because it wouldn’t suit me. That is probably why the guy in today’s subject looks so…

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CIPC #393: Monsters S3 E15, The space eaters

Posted on October 1, 2024October 1, 2024

Last time we met with Monsters,1 there was a man looking for his daughter in an art gallery were a rather disturbing portrait of her…

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CIPC #392: The Dick Van Dyke show S1E18, Who owes who what?

Posted on September 24, 2024September 25, 2024

The Dick Van Dyke show is, despite the suspicious spelling of the main character’s last name, one of the most highly acclaimed and popular sitcoms…

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CIPC #391: Celine Geser, Unsere Umwelt

Posted on September 17, 2024September 17, 2024

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…

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CIPC #390: Der Alte E244, Drei Schüße ins Herz

Posted on September 11, 2024September 11, 2024

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…

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CIPC #389: The boy in the plastic bubble

Posted on September 3, 2024September 3, 2024

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…

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CIPC #388: Chromophobia

Posted on August 27, 2024August 27, 2024

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…

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CIPC #387: Lewis S6 E3, Fearful symmetry

Posted on August 21, 2024August 21, 2024

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…

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CIPC #386: Resident Evil HD

Posted on August 14, 2024August 14, 2024

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…

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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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