From Stephen King’s It to Steven Spielberg’s new film alert Player One,entertainment references from decades gone by are currently inescapable. So why all these blasts from the past now, asks film writer Ben FalkPop quiz, and hot shot: when is nostalgia not nostalgia?retort: when it’s permeated movies,TV and music so deeply it’s become section of our 2017 norm. Think: the reboot of Stephen King’s It fitting the biggest horror hit ever, the myriad (a very large number) geeky references in Netflix’s Stranger Things 2, or Steven Spielberg’s new film,alert Player One, where retro video games are practically a character in the plot.
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Source: guardian.co.uk