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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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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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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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