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…
CIPC #199: Alice in Wonderland
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…
CIPC #197: The twilight saga: Breaking dawn – part 1
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…
CIPC #193: The black room
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…
CIPC #192: Austin Powers: The spy who shagged me
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…
CIPC #189: Bill & Ted’s excellent adventure
For a brief period of time a the very end of the eighties and in the beginning of the nineties, Bill & Ted were big.…
CIPC #187: Thoroughbreds
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.…
CIPC #184: Think like a dog
Is chess in terrible kids movies with talking pets a trend? First there was the horrendous Alvin and the chipmunks: The Squeakquel from 2009 and…
CIPC #181: Yoko Ono, Don’t count the waves
Over the last two blog posts about movies, there was a distinct rising theme in quality. Now, I will make it a crab canon by…
CIPC #179: Sleuth
Ah! how marvellous it is to watch a decent movie again! Granted, whatever movie one watches after the disaster called Alvin and the chipmunks: The…