![]() The artist with a secret hideaway filled to the brim with ’80s memorabilia. And it was a love letter, too, to those who love those pieces of their past. Rather, it was all the references to my favorite flicks from the ’80s, the fact that the book itself was an overt homage to those pieces of pop culture. In the end, what delighted me so much about this book wasn’t the story itself. Unfortunately, their world is dying and, well, if you’ve ever read or watched The Neverending Story(it was my favorite book when I was growing up), you likely know where this is going. I was quickly sucked into the world of the shadow glass, in which fox-like creatures battle hideous monsters for control over a world that seems to have emerged from the power of imagination alone. I picked it up because the cover was giving some strong Dark Crystal vibes and, hell, the premise sounded like fun. I recently read Josh Winning’s The Shadow Glass, a dark fantasy in which the puppets from a cult favorite fantasy film come alive, threatening London and, perhaps, the world. Which is why I really love books that bring those ’80s vibes. My elementary-age child is always hovering and I’m always working or cooking and, by the evening, I’m so wiped out that all I want to do is crawl in bed with a good book until I fall asleep. 80S NOSTALGIA TVAnd sometimes, happily, my expectations are even surpassed (as was the case with Nate Stevenson’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, which managed to elevate the animated superhero princess of my youth).īut to be honest, I don’t have much time for TV or movies anymore. “It’s just good, sound financial logic.”Īnd so, I don my comfy bike shorts and my TerrorVision muscle tee and I pour myself a Cherry Coke and I pull my blanket up to my chin and I lose myself in the latest. ![]() “This is not laziness on the part of the production studios,” he insists. This pandering to my childhood hooks me because, well, sometimes adulting is hard and sometimes all I want to do is tap into that ease and that sense of possibility that existed back before I got braces and terrible acne and, later, a career.įilm Studies lecturer Matthew Jones tells Cosmopolitan that these reboots happen because audiences already have an emotional attachment to these stories. I’ve been tuning in with one eye open, cringing in fearful anticipation that my childhood favorites are about to be completely ruined.īecause, goddammit, weren’t Dirty Dancing and Heathers alreadyperfect?Īnd yet, I watch anyway. In the past decade or so, it seems that everything from my past has gotten the reboot treatment, for better or for worse (usually worse). ![]()
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