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CIPC #389: The boy in the plastic bubble

Posted on September 3, 2024September 3, 2024

Before Saturday night fever, before Grease, and only a couple of days after Carrie hit theatres, John Travolta had already been the star in his…

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CIPC #385: American pie presents: Beta house

Posted on August 7, 2024August 7, 2024

All the great artists suffer for their craft, but I do, too. Every now and then, I sit through one of those godawful attempts at…

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CIPC #384: Hot fuzz

Posted on July 30, 2024July 30, 2024

One of the mainstays of this blog are detective movies with often rather perfunctory appearances of chess and today’s subject, Hot fuzz, is no different.…

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CIPC #381: An American werewolf in London

Posted on July 9, 2024July 9, 2024

Wikipedia calls this a horror comedy, and that is quite a reasonable description: it consists of some ninety minutes of pretty standard horror movie followed…

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CIPC #378: Deadlier than the male

Posted on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024

Third time’s the charm! Our subject from two weeks ago featured pieces based on the Lewis chessmen. Our subject from last week featured pieces based…

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CIPC #377: Atlas

Posted on June 12, 2024June 12, 2024

We’re doing a remarkable recent movie today. The first Netflix movie we feature, I believe! The plot is that Jennifer Lopez is desperately trying to…

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CIPC #375: Righteous kill

Posted on May 28, 2024May 28, 2024

It’s been almost half a year since we dealt with a serial killer. For this blog, that’s extraordinary. But today we accompany Robert De Niro…

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CIPC #371: Sinbad and the eye of the tiger

Posted on April 30, 2024April 30, 2024

In the summer of 1977, when the first Star Wars was released, it went up against a large sword-and-sorcery franchise that had been established for…

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CIPC #365: Five dolls for an August moon

Posted on March 13, 2024March 13, 2024

One of the best things about gialli in general are the wonderfully meaningless but poetic titles: Blue eyes of the broken doll! The case of…

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CIPC #364: Horror express

Posted on March 5, 2024March 5, 2024

What would you get if Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing played in The Thing?1 A glorious cinematic masterpiece, you would expect, which makes Horror express…

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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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