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!...
CIPC #189: Bill & Ted’s excellent adventure
For a brief period of time a the very end of the eighties and in the beginning of the nineties, Bill & Ted were big. Very, very big. The highly...
CIPC #187: Thoroughbreds
Let’s continue this strange trend of recent movies appearing on this blog. Today’s victim is Thoroughbreds, a 2017 film starring Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy. It is about two teenage...
CIPC #184: Think like a dog
Is chess in terrible kids movies with talking pets a trend? First there was the horrendous Alvin and the chipmunks: The Squeakquel from 2009 and now there is the only...
CIPC #181: Yoko Ono, Don’t count the waves
Over the last two blog posts about movies, there was a distinct rising theme in quality. Now, I will make it a crab canon by introducing the inverted theme in...
CIPC #179: Sleuth
Ah! how marvellous it is to watch a decent movie again! Granted, whatever movie one watches after the disaster called Alvin and the chipmunks: The squeakquel would appear as a...
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