Were most of the cartoons just long-form advertisements for toys at the time? Sure, but they also had some episodes that would stay with us for years to come. Quite a few of our favorite '80s cartoons ...
Pablo Berger channels Chaplin, Tati, and Earth, Wind & Fire in his acclaimed animated debut about the friendship between a dog and a robot in New York's East Village. Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams,” ...
Not stories with endings. Not subtle character arcs. Just laser guns, synth music, animal hybrids, toyetic vehicles, and an intro theme that went harder than it had any right to. Some of these ...
Anyone who grew up in the 1980s grew up watching many of the same, 30 minute toy commercials known as Saturday morning cartoons. Those same children, in all likelihood, grew up in households where ...
When producers Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery found out that Dreamworks had acquired the media rights to “Voltron” and were planning to release a new version on Netflix, the two frequent ...
There was a very specific moment in the 1980s when television executives looked at children and thought: “What if we simply gave them everything?” Not stories with endings. Not subtle character arcs.