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The Liberation Film Series (1971)

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Perhaps one of the weirder rabbit holes I’ve gone down this year is the subject of Soviet films about World War II. In Russia, the war is commonly referred to as the Great Patriotic War, and throughout the Soviet era and up until recently, Russian films have used this period as a dramatic backdrop to explore many themes. In the west, there is a LOT of pop culture emphasis on the American and British participation in the Western Front, with much attention paid to D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. But, much of the war was actually fought on … Continue reading The Liberation Film Series (1971)

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The Toybox: Masters of the Universe

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The 1980s was defined in the kid world by a handful of toylines that seemed to gobble up and dominate their impressionable minds. Reagan era changes to advertising rules targeted at children brought about the rise of the afternoon cartoon that sold some kind of toy range, and the first and most successful of this marketing strategy was Masters of the Universe. If you go on Netflix, you can watch an episode of The Toys That Made Us about the invention of He-Man, and you can ALSO watch a feature length documentary called The Power of Grayskull that chronicles the … Continue reading The Toybox: Masters of the Universe

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