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…
CIPC #381: An American werewolf in London
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…
CIPC #380: Monty python’s flying circus S1 E5, Man’s crisis of identity in the latter half of the 20th century
I have quite some trepidation as I start writing this post, because I will have to judge the pythons!1 Their flying circus is perhaps the…
CIPC #379: Honda Ridgeline ad
We’re finally leaving the Lewis chessmen behind, but we’re not quite back to normal pieces: they’re still human sized. And they figure in a commercial…