A Long Time Ago, In a Cinema Not Too Far Away…
And so it began, a generation lost in space. I can’t remember what life was like before Star Wars, but I’m pretty sure it was missing these vital things…
Category: Nostalgia
My Golden Age of Movie Posters
Growing up in the eighties, I spent my childhood in awe of the great movie poster illustrators, and for me the eighties may have been the heyday of the movie poster artisan.
Bigger on the Inside: Why I Love Doctor Who
There are some things that you bring with you from childhood, some things that you just never grow out of. Tantrums, laughing at farts and pulling stupid faces, to name but a few. But for me, and for many of us Brits, there is also Doctor Who. The 50th Anniversary of this very British sci-fi… Read more »
Summer Movie Blog-a-thon: 1984
I was born in the year 1970, which means I was an active human presence on this planet through that entire decade. However, other than Star Wars, the better episodes of Doctor Who and a few fashion traumas, there isn’t a great deal I remember about the Seventies. So, when nostalgia comes calling for me,… Read more »
Free Inside! (via Blah!)
Today was my weekly grocery shopping expedition. I use the word expedition because that’s what it sometimes feels like when you don’t drive. Lugging three bags of groceries home is good exercise. Fascinating stuff, right? Don’t worry, I am working toward my topic. It was while I was standing there in Aisle 2, perusing the… Read more »
The Thief of Bagdad and Simpler Times
When I was a kid, way back in the midst of the Seventies, movie viewing was restricted to visits to the cinema or the schedules of three TV channels. That’s right, kids, there was a dark time in our history when you couldn’t grab the remote and watch what you liked when you liked. There… Read more »