by Graeme Cumming | Dec 11, 2018 | Gogglebox, Movies, Nostalgia |
Having lived in the historic county of Nottinghamshire for most of my life, and now living close to the edge of what remains of Sherwood Forest, it’s perhaps inevitable that I’m drawn to tales of Robin Hood. A few years ago, Russell Crowe took on the role in a film...
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...
