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Cocoon
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How Cocoon Won an Oscar and Was Quickly Forgotten

BJ Newman

The big 80s blockbusters, the type that win hearts, minds, and Oscars, often have a life much longer than that found on the cinema screen. They are repurposed into merchandise for the modern age, remade,

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