Here’s an interesting observation about pop culture in 2021: there hasn’t been a book craze in quite a while. Some twenty years ago, there was…

Sad news for the lovers of early music: we’re not talking about the iconic German music theorist and composer from around 1700. Instead, we are…

Shakespeare — a name to conjure with! Yes, the immortal bard is finally appearing on my blog. That he was going to appear was pretty…

There are very few stories that have been adapted to the big screen as often as Bram Stoker’s late nineteenth century gothic horror novel Dracula.…

We have encountered Marcel Duchamp before on this blog, seated on a roof somewhere in Paris, playing chess with Man Ray. Today, we are dealing…

If you were to ask some random schmuck from the streets to give an example of chess in popular culture, provided you do this at…

Few traces of it are left, but about a decade ago, Twilight was the biggest thing in the world. Millions and millions of copies of…

After amusing ourselves with some light-weight television series and some comedies, we now turn to more serious matters once again. The serious matter at hand…

We’ve had Tintin already on this blog, we’ve had Hercule Poirot, we’ve had Lucky Luke, we’ve had Devereaux. It’s time knock another famous fictional Belgian…

For a brief period of time a the very end of the eighties and in the beginning of the nineties, Bill & Ted were big.…