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CIPC #217: Agatha Christie’s Poirot S9 E2, Sad cypress

Posted on April 13, 2021

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…

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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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CIPC #192: Austin Powers: The spy who shagged me

Posted on October 13, 2020

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…

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CIPC #189: Bill & Ted’s excellent adventure

Posted on September 22, 2020

For a brief period of time a the very end of the eighties and in the beginning of the nineties, Bill & Ted were big.…

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CIPC #187: Thoroughbreds

Posted on September 9, 2020

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.…

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