Last week’s movie about the sadistic serial killer was kind of fun, but this one is really disturbing. When in Copycat someone goes around gleefully…
CIPC #404: Copycat
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…