When you think of comics, you probably think about American superhero comics, Japanese manga, or perhaps the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées. You probably don’t think of…
CIPC #295: Hum Tum
Every now and then,1 I spotlight an ad on this blog. Today, I’ll write one. It’s going to be an ad for the Max Euwe…
CIPC #294: Batman S1 E11, A riddle a day keeps the Riddler away
Before I ever laid eyes on any episode of the Adam West Batman series from the sixties, I had this idea, gotten through sheer cultural…
CIPC #293: JVC ad
In the seventies, all bets were off. The oddest, most far-fetched ideas were realised. Weird novelties, like the Bond Bug and the Disco Duck were…
CIPC #292: La habitación de Fermat
When Saw came out in 2004, it inspired a wide array of horror and thriller movies of wildly varying quality. One of them, with a…
CIPC #291: Kona
Kona is a 2017 adventure game with a horror theme. I have not played it, but it seems a perfectly middle-of-the-road game. Not particularly good,…
CIPC extra: Computer generated chess graphics
We interrupt your regularly scheduled chess-in-popular-culture program to bring you an important message. Some of my diligent readers may have noticed this already, but I…
CIPC #290: The first spaceship on Venus
Sadly, I will not be discussing an actual spaceship in this post. It would be astonishing, wouldn’t it, if a chess scene were painted on…
CIPC #289: The doctor Blake mysteries S1 E6, If the shoe fits
Australia! The land of weird, venomous animals, fairy bread, and TwoSet violin. I don’t think I have yet spotlighted any Australian television show or indeed…
CIPC #288: Ninja in the killing fields
Today, we’re going to talk about an obscure niche of pop culture you quite probably have never heard of: Hong Kong hack jobs. That’s not…