CIPC #219: The Da Vinci code
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 the Harry Potter of course,...
CIPC #218: Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius
Sad news for the lovers of early music: we’re not talking about the iconic German music theorist and composers from around 1700. Instead, we are talking about a German movie...
CIPC #217: Agatha Christie’s Poirot S9 E2, Sad cypress
Long, long time ago, when this blog was still in its infancy, Agatha Christie’s Poirot was a recurring guest. It’s been more than two years now since I wrote about...
CIPC #215: The tempest
Shakespeare — a name to conjure with! Yes, the immortal bard is finally appearing on my blog. That he was going to appear was pretty much inevitable, because one of...
CIPC #214: Dracula A. D. 1972
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. Our subject today isn’t one...
CIPC #211: 8×8: A chess sonata in 8 movements
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 with him again. This time,...
CIPC #199: Alice in Wonderland
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 a point in time when...
CIPC #197: The twilight saga: Breaking dawn – part 1
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 the books were sold in...
CIPC #193: The black room
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 is a 1935 film Boris...
CIPC #192: Austin Powers: The spy who shagged me
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 off the list: dr. Evil!...
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