Isn’t critical review all just a big popularity contest anyhow? Consumers doing what they do, consuming, and then scraping varying levels of fame from the chaff of greater things?

It helps, I\’ll claim hereafter, that when she quizzed me with “Which is your favourite princess, daddy?” that I promptly responded by telling her it was Princess Leah.

What better way to get some well-needed on a sick-day home rest than to park myself on the couch and indulge in some movies I haven’t watched in a few years?

One iteration that secured a steady foothold in the hearts of many youth of my era was the cartoon series linked inexorably to a robotically-animated plush bear with a cassette player in his back: Teddy Ruxpin.

In 1985 the cult-classic, time-travel, teen-angst epic “Back to the Future” starring Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd was released. I was nine… give or take.