Back to the future: Why the 90s is seeing such a revival

Do not adjust your Discman — from Friends to the new Captain Marvel movie, the ’90s are back, writes Ed Power

The year’s first big blockbuster movie promises to be a period piece with a difference. Bonnets and bodices don’t get a look-in and fainting damsels are, by every account, in short supply. Instead, the forthcoming Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson and Samuel L Jackson, is set in the ’90s and wears its Clinton-era trappings with a flourish.