by Graeme Cumming | Jul 5, 2018 | Movies, Nostalgia |
Once you start to focus on something, more of the same starts to come into your life. Some of it is to do with a part of the brain that’s activated by that focus. So, if you buy a particular model of car, suddenly there are loads of them around you. The same if you...
by Graeme Cumming | Jul 1, 2018 | Movies, Nostalgia |
My last two posts reflected on changes to how we see movies in cinemas. Here I’d like to focus on the inability to watch older films on the big screen. I won’t for a minute pretend I like the classics – Casablanca, Citizen Kane and others of that ilk. I...
by Graeme Cumming | Jun 27, 2018 | Movies, Nostalgia |
I have moaned in the past (and recently) that you don’t get double bills at the cinema any more. For anyone under the age of fifty, the concept of a double-bill might not even make sense. It doesn’t seem that long ago I would have said anyone under the age of forty,...
by Graeme Cumming | Jun 22, 2018 | Movies, Nostalgia |
Those of you who know me reasonably well will know I’m a big fan of cinema. I have been since my grandma took me to see The Wizard of Oz back in the late 1960s. You may also be aware that I have some strong feelings about how cinema has changed over the years....
by Graeme Cumming | Jan 21, 2018 | Blogging, Book Reviews, Fiction, Nostalgia |
Author Sandra Danby has a blog series she refers to as Porridge and Cream, in which she asks other authors to share books that fit her definition: “…the book you turn to when you need a familiar read, when you are tired, ill, or out-of-sorts, where you...
by Graeme Cumming | Jan 19, 2018 | Movies, Nostalgia, Television |
Clearly, I have reached that stage in life. With increasing frequency, the people who have formed the backdrop to my formative years – musicians, movie stars, TV personalities, authors – are shuffling off this mortal coil. Last year alone saw Leonard Cohen, Roger...
