The thing that immediately impressed me about Toy Story, as a 35 year old male when it was released, was how finely tuned the toys were as nostalgia delivery devices. Not for a moment, and this was the intended effect, did I identify with Andy, or even have anything he particularly did or said trigger an intense…

Oh there’s bloat, to be sure. It seems to be part of the wider “binge-watching” phenomenon and the “bonus material” larded around movies on DVD, which live on beyond the currency of physical media on Youtube, etc. It’s not just movies. There is not enough time in the universe to keep ahead of the box-set releases of…