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Tag: short film

CIPC #430: Incomplete

Posted on June 17, 2025June 17, 2025

My faithful readers know that I can stomach very, very bad movies. But where I may laugh at terrible thrillers or cringe at crappy comedies,…

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CIPC #388: Chromophobia

Posted on August 27, 2024August 27, 2024

If there is one thing that Belgium is worse at than chess, it’s probably directing films. But like we have Colle and O’Kelly, so do…

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CIPC #273: Murun Buchstansangur, Problems Problems

Posted on May 17, 2022May 17, 2022

I have seen quite a few cartoons for this blog, but never something quite like Murun Buchstansangur. Most cartoons are about kids, anthropomorphised animals, or…

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CIPC #228: Chess-nuts

Posted on June 30, 2021January 3, 2022

Betty Boop is one of the very many things in the world that I just can’t get my head around.1 She is a very old…

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CIPC #165: Entr’acte

Posted on April 7, 2020

Once again we have a novelty on this blog. Not that it is anything at all recent, in fact, our subject today is from all…

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CIPC #114: At land

Posted on April 9, 2019

At land is not as well-known as the movies I usually feature in this series, so maybe some explanation is in order. It is a…

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CIPC #48: Geri’s game

Posted on December 19, 2017

After last week’s post, I was kind of struggling with writer’s block. I mean, how do you follow up on accidentally composing a chess problem?…

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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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