The magic of cinema isn’t just about film

Cinema is fading. Borat went straight to Amazon Prime, where he is smaller, and Bond 25 — no time to die eh? — is delayed until next year. In response Cineworld has ‘temporarily’ closed its cinemas and the smaller film houses are struggling. Millennials and Generation Z don’t mind, but I am no such creature: I was an usherette at Options in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, in 1990. Do they know that cinema remains, despite its best efforts, the most inspiring kind of mass culture?Dreams mean nothing to the gilded and interesting: they do not need them….