In 2008, South-Africa was already bracing itself for the big event that would briefly add the word vuvuzela to the world’s vocabulary: the 2010 FIFA…
CIPC #309: Taggart S20 E2, The wages of sin
When you made a new friend, it is only natural that you want to spend a lot of time with as soon as possible. Barely…
CIPC #308: The mouse on the moon
Maybe one day Disney will take over SpaceX and we will really get The Mouse on the moon. For now, however, it is just a…
CIPC #307: Lewis S5 E4, The gift of promise
January ain’t over yet and we’re already on our second British detective series! That’s got to be some kind of record! Two weeks ago, we…
CIPC #306: Louis Vuitton promo
About a month ago, the picture above made1 the rounds on social media. As I’m neither social nor a medium, I missed its original moment…
CIPC #305: Taggart E3, Murder in season
After all these years, there are still British detective series that have never been mentioned on this blog. One of them is Taggart, but after…
CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2022
2022 has been quite a turbulent year. The most remarkable thing, the one that will stick in people’s minds for the longest, is probably the…
CIPC #304: 1985 Sears Christmas wish book
Gather round, ye young ones, and listen as an old man tells a tale of days gone by. Suppose that, long time ago before the…
CIPC #303: The adventures of dr. Fu Manchu intro
Once more, quite some time after the crime doctor and Philo Vance, we’re brutally tearing another long-forgotten franchise from Morpheus’ arms and putting it right…
CIPC #302: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation S14 E16, Killer Moves
The hugely popular television series about crime scene investigations, CSI, started over twenty years ago now. Since then, there have been so many season, adaptations,…