Something Streaming This Way Comes: "Pinocchio in Outer Space"
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There’s no way to write this piece without coming across as an old man, so I’m just going to go ahead and embrace it and say that, when I was a kid, we didn’t have it as easy as today’s kids do when it comes to watching movies. Not only was the internet not yet a thing, but until right around when I was entering my teens, I also grew up without the advantage of having either cable or a VCR. As such, I was limited to whatever movies were on TV, whatever movies my parents took me to see, or—on rare occasions—whatever movies they might show after school. That’s right: in my day, your parents would sign a permission slip so that you could stay after school, at which point they’d have a projector set up and they’d show a film…like, say, a forgotten classic called
Something Streaming This Way Comes: "Pinocchio in Outer Space"
Something Streaming This Way Comes…
Something Streaming This Way Comes: "Pinocchio in Outer Space"
There’s no way to write this piece without coming across as an old man, so I’m just going to go ahead and embrace it and say that, when I was a kid, we didn’t have it as easy as today’s kids do when it comes to watching movies. Not only was the internet not yet a thing, but until right around when I was entering my teens, I also grew up without the advantage of having either cable or a VCR. As such, I was limited to whatever movies were on TV, whatever movies my parents took me to see, or—on rare occasions—whatever movies they might show after school. That’s right: in my day, your parents would sign a permission slip so that you could stay after school, at which point they’d have a projector set up and they’d show a film…like, say, a forgotten classic called