See you at the movies

The Colonial Theatre in Belfast was my teenage home for understanding the world through cinema

The exterior of the Colonial Theatre in 2025 - not too different from how it looked when I was a kid. Photo courtesy Colonial Theatre.

Nobody remembers anyone’s phone number anymore. If you asked me to reel off the number of any of my closest friends and relatives without looking them up, I could not do it. Our phones aren’t phones, and we really shouldn…