There is an old aphorism that claims reality is weirder than fiction but, like most aphorisms, it is mostly bullshit. Take, for example, our subject…
CIPC #403: Harvester
It’s been a long time since we talked about a video game, and it’s been a really long time since we talked about one of…
CIPC #402: Weetabix ad
Weetabix is a brand of breakfast cereal. In the space of all things, there is perhaps nothing farther removed from chess than breakfast cereals. So…
CIPC #401: Wunder ad
Although I’m sure it’s never going to go away entirely, the time of the printed advertisement seems to be drawing to a close. But advertisement…
CIPC #400: Suske en Wiske Vol.375, De Schakende Schim
Last time I talked about one of the Suske and Wiske comics, I complained about the low, low quality of post-Vandersteen Suske and Wiske stories.…
CIPC #399: Tom Poes en het betoverde schaakspel
Barring my Dutch readers, there’s probably precious few of you that know Tom Poes, so let me briefly introduce him. He’s a somewhat anthropomorphised white…
CIPC #398: Ghostbusters: Frozen empire
The last time we met the Ghostbusters, they were a few young teenagers busting ghosts in a small Midwestern town. Now they are a couple…
CIPC #397: Cheyenne S1 E14, Johnny Bravo
Cheyenne was a rather popular wild west television series produced by Warner Brothers in the fifties and sixties. It deals with the adventures of the…
CIPC #396: Seinfeld S9 E16, The burning
Seinfeld is one the most beloved and popular sitcoms of all time and, judging from this single episode, that seems justified. The plot is admittedly…
CIPC #395: Gretel & Hansel
This is a bizarre film. It’s obviously based on the Grimm brothers fairytale, but it has very little to do with it. There’s no evil…