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For over six months now, we've remained dedicated to the writing team over at Netflix's Stranger Things 4 and their weekly tradition of "Video Store Fridays" (VSF). Here's how it worked: every week, the writers would post five films that were on their minds that week (while we included the trailers in our articles to […]

Following the clip (with preview image above), Danes, Patinkin, Damien Lewis, and Alex Gansa take a look back at the past eight seasons of the critically-acclaimed, award-winning series and the way it both reflected and impacted our culture.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6YlUrXduPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwqxnQWJkx4 The final season of HOMELAND finds Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag[...]

1897, April 23, 1879Vintage Paper Fire The first few sparks of what the political cartoon on the cover of this issue of The Daily Graphic symbolizes began in Russia in 1861.  Tsar Alexander II's Emancipation Manifesto was the beginning of the end of serfdom in the Russian Empire.Russian serfs -- who could be bought and sold[...]

Look, it's not like we don't appreciate what we've learned about Netflix's Stranger Things 4 so far. Even though we were pretty much 99.88% sure Hopper (David Harbour) was coming back, they didn't have to confirm it – they could've stretched out… milked it for extra pre-season drama. We even learned that Tom Wlaschiha (Game […]

in fact, we were "calling it" about five times - and nothing.So of course they would blindside us with a major, "we're not messing around here" teaser drop that clears up one of the biggest mysteries from last season: that the "American" who didn't get fed to the captive Demogorgon by the Russian guards at[...]

Hulu has the streaming rights to the Adult Swim series here in the U.S., while Channel 4 has the rights lock in across the pond, in the U.K.So that means Netflix gets to introduce the following chunks of the world to the down side to peaceful pooping and the smooth flow of snake jazz: India,[...]

Last month according to the Moscow Times, the Russian culture minister Vladimir Medinsky told an audience at the Moscow international book fair that “it’s pathetic for adults to read comic books” That “Comics are for those who can’t read well.. it’s like chewing gum, it’s not food Comic books are aimed at children who are[...]

Not wanting Brazilian officials to have all the stupid fun this weekend, Vladimir Medinsky, the Russian Minister of Culture, sparked international outcry at the 32nd Moscow International Book Fair when he said that adult comic book readers are "morons." Medinsky admitted that comics were good for children up to age seven or eight, but not[...]

It seems there’s no escaping Russia in the popular imagination at the moment – whether it is in the news with Putin’s hijinks subverting elections, mistakingly poisoning random British citizens and (worst of all) trolling Star Wars fans, or Tom King playing out his fantasy of punching Russians in the current Batman storyline Writer Steve[...]

Set to premiere on the streaming service on Friday, October 12, the creative team behind The Romanoffs include executive producer-writer Semi Chellas; co-executive producers Kriss Turner Towner, Blake McCormick, and Kathy Ciric; and consulting producers-writers Andre Jacquemetton and Maria Jacquemetton.Set to explore people who believe themselves to be descendants of the murdered Russian royal family, The[...]

But other countries are catching up...But who is who? Let's look at the People's Heroes of Russia, to which we got an introduction in Doomsday Clock #5.Black Eagle - New character? Previous DC character was a Lt Cassius Bannister, a fighter pilot fighting over Italy during World War II as part of the Tuskegee Airmen, first appearance All-Out War #2, 1979,[...]

In Russia, government blocks you Yep, we went for a Yakov Smirnoff intro According to several sites today, Russian authorities have blocked off it's citizens from having access to Twitch, along with several other sites owned or operated by Google and Amazon The news started trickling in via social media and Reddit, the biggest one making[...]

"Americans should ignore fake news Moose and Squirrel cartoon and watch programming with more fair and balanced perspective on Russia, like Fox News."According to our sources, President Trump may be under pressure to stop the release of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle before it has a chance to spread its anti-Russian propaganda to a[...]

Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional[...]

Comics' greatest propagandist, Mark Millar, will be spending New Years Eve with Russia's greatest international propaganda network, according to a tweet from Sputnik, a show on RT, a Russian state-funded international television network.You may remember RT as the network to which Trump ally, former Minnesota  governor, and pro wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura went to[...]

The upcoming Marvel Studios Ant-Man and the Wasp will be a romantic comedy, according to a report from Russian film website Kinometro, which the American clickbait media is taking and running with on this slow news weekend.The story comes via a single line in a report about upcoming films from a Russian film event which[...]

The Russian legal system has convicted 32-year-old Viktor Nochevnov and fined him for reposting satirical cartoons about Jesus Christ A Sochi court (near the Black Sea) has found him guilty of offending religious believers' feelings, specifically those of the Russian Orthodox Church.Radio Free Europe reports that he posted the cartoons on the Russian social media[...]

He’s Russian and adorned in Soviet-era iconography Though, they may stray from that character since he would draw comparisons to Iron Man and Iron Man 2 specifically with its Mickey Rourke Whiplash/Crimson Dynamo hybrid main antagonist Red Panzer is another obvious choice, and that would be greatly enjoyable as well.By the way, my pick for[...]

In a move that has absolutely nothing to do with his late-night war with President Donald Trump, Stephen Colbert is currently in Russia "on assignment" developing a segment for his CBS late-night series, The Late Show The late-night talk show is in repeats this Thursday and Friday, with Colbert expected to return to the Late[...]

With $18.1 million, the movie had the biggest opening weekend ever in the country of Russia, according to state sponsored media and the Exhibitor Relations twitter account The movie underperformed in the U.S., earning just $62 million so far, below both its early projections and the $90 million opening of the previous installment in the franchise, but[...]