Stranger Things and the Cul de Sac of Nostalgia

In his review of Super Dark Times, Kim Newman, the greatest critic of genre cinema remarked, “This bleak coming-of-age movie – set in the mid-90s – has little of the nostalgia of Stand By Me, and trades instead in a kind of numbed, frozen, adolescent angst which evokes River’s Edge or Over the Edge – …

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