Oh! sweet nectar of nostalgia linger longer, just a while, let the taste of distant mem’ries draw a brief and sadden’d smile …with which somewhat…
CIPC #22: Mozart in the jungle S1 E2 Fifth chair
Mozart in the jungle is an Amazon original series based on a book of the same name. It focuses on an New York-based up-and-coming oboist’s…
CIPC #21: Midsomer Murders S15 E5 The Sicilian defence
It doesn’t happen very often that a long-running television show dedicates an entire episode to chess, but when it happens – oh boy! Episode 5…
CIPC #20: Promofilm liga Antwerpen
What is the last place where you would expect an impossible position to appear on the chessboard? I don’t know precisely what my own answer…
CIPC #18: Hamilton watches advert
Watches, especially the high-end ones, have a very posh image. They’re supposed to be for the distinguished gentleman, evoking images of a quiet British club…
CIPC #17: 1984
One sure sign of an author’s lasting success is when his phrases and his words become common parlance. Very few authors have achieved this in…
CIPC #16: Guust Flater Vol.5: Daverende flaters te koop
Guust Flater, or Gaston Lagaffe in the original French, is probably the most popular anti-hero of the Franco-Belgian school of comic books. The series, written…
CIPC #15: Book cover galore
Chess, due to its symbolical connotations, is a popular motive for book covers, even if the book itself has nothing whatever to do with it.…
CIPC #14: Knight moves
Fourteenth instalment! Finally a nice round number!1 That deserves something special, I’d say. Something very special indeed: I’m going to watch a movie. More specifically,…
CIPC #13: Tintin Vol.5: The broken ear
Obscure engravings, highly local comics series – the ‘popular’ in the name of this blog has become somewhat spurious lately. High time, I think, to…