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CIPC #229: The great dictator

Posted on July 7, 2021

Today, we dissect the greatest of the great, because The great dictator is probably the greatest movie by the greatest silent movie actor: Charles Chaplin.…

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CIPC #225: Crime doctor’s warning

Posted on June 8, 2021January 3, 2022

Have you ever heard of the Crime doctor franchise? It is about doctor Ordway, a criminal psychologist who helps the police solve cases. Nowadays, it…

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CIPC #219: The Da Vinci code

Posted on April 28, 2021January 3, 2022

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…

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CIPC #218: Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius

Posted on April 20, 2021January 3, 2022

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…

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CIPC #215: The tempest

Posted on March 31, 2021

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

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CIPC #214: Dracula A. D. 1972

Posted on March 24, 2021January 3, 2022

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.…

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CIPC #211: 8×8: A chess sonata in 8 movements

Posted on March 3, 2021

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…

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CIPC #199: Alice in Wonderland

Posted on December 1, 2020

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…

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CIPC #197: The twilight saga: Breaking dawn – part 1

Posted on November 17, 2020

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…

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CIPC #193: The black room

Posted on October 20, 2020

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…

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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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