Nostalgic Impulse

Scooby-Doo has been gracing our television screens since 1969. It has changed studios, been bought and sold, changed animation style, and been on TV, film, comics, and merchandise. There have been 11 different incarnations of the TV series, 2 theatrical-release, ...

These days, kids films aren’t considered ‘good’ unless they have lots of laughs for the adults as well as the kids. They aren’t really kids films at all any more, if you ask me… if they try to please both ...

Before Twilight, vampires were cool. They were edgy and sexy and everyone secretly wanted to be one. Most of my free time recently has been taken up by vampires. Not through the medium of books, film, TV or graphic novels ...

Back in 1983, M*A*S*H bowed out, having been running for 11 years (eight years longer than the real-world war it depicted. The episode, Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen was two and a half hours long, two hours longer than the normal ...

There are some films that will stay with us until the day we die. The reasons for their lasting impact can vary widely, but we know that we love them and that’s all that matters. Ghostbusters is one of those ...

We all go through phases, some more embarrassing than others. There are periods of our lives we wish we could forget, but friends and families love to bring up when new people are around, especially at formal events. The embarrassing ...

A recent article on The Guardian got me thinking about robots. Yes, I admit to thinking of them in that fear-mongering, panic-stricken way that many people do post-Terminator. I often wonder when the robots will take over the world. It ...

There was a dark period of my life (from tween to teen) when I felt I was too cool for kids movies, especially Disney movies. It was about the same time that I vowed I didn’t need to sleep with my teddy ...

I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction thanks to geeky parents and a firm belief in family time (aka sharing our loves – which just happened to coincide). One show in particular that I loved was Star ...

My teenage years are sadly long behind me, but that does not mean that I can’t appreciate a well-crafted teen movie. Teen movies have a bad reputation and it is true that many of them are soulless, crude, sappy, or ...