This month’s theme of nostalgia evolved through a combination of pitches and releases and the general overarching feeling that things used to be generally better and less fucking awful at some point in the past. To quote the AI that answered my Google search without my consent, ‘People can feel nostalgic at any point in life, but it often intensifies during transitional periods, like adolescence or when facing difficult times.’ Transitional periods like e.g. the end of days.
Film editor Jamie reminisces about the magic of discovering cinema through terrestrial TV in the 80s and 90s, with the late night Moviedrome series presenting cult films introduced by filmmaker Alex Cox. He meets the man himself to discuss the series’ return irl to the British Film Institute on the Southbank, with a collection of Moviedrome films, including a new short documentary about the series, also available to stream on the BFI Player.
Sensing that the Scottish nostalgia levels are currently perilously high, one writer unpacks the
