CIPC #230: Robot & Frank
Last week, we talked about one of the most well-known movies of all time. Today, we look at a far lesser known one: Robot & Frank, a 2012 movie about...
CIPC #229: The great dictator
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. But it is a very...
CIPC #225: Crime doctor’s warning
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 is almost entirely forgotten, but...
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...
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