Tag: Babies
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‘The Beanie Bubble’ Is Not Actually About Beanie Babies
This summer, “Barbie” has revived the box office, making nearly $500 million worldwide in its first week. Earlier this year, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” surpassed the billion-dollar mark. If those two success are any indication, it seems that nostalgia sells — particularly nostalgia for classic toys and characters to which moviegoers have a personal…
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Netflix Puts 10 Educational Documentaries on YouTube for Free
Netflix has released 10 of its educational documentaries on YouTube to give teachers free content to screen for their virtual classrooms.The company’s free documentaries include the David Attenborough-narrated “Our Planet,” which explores the various wonders of the natural world, and Ava DuVeray’s “13th,” which examines the 13th Amendment, mass criminalization, and the American prison industry.…
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‘Babies’ Review: Clinical Netflix Doc Series About Toddlers Puts Academics Over Experiences
Babies can’t really talk.At least not in the way that documentary participants tend to. It’s an unfortunate fact that puts the Netflix series “Babies” at a bit of a disadvantage — making a six-part series about toddlers means that it’s impossible to get traditional input from its main subjects. What “Babies” chooses instead to fill…