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This week we’re looking at some of the most expensive and highest grossing epics not made in the US. We start with Fedor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad (2013) about a tight-knit squad of Russian soldiers defending a key building during the siege of the city. Next up is both chapters of Baahulbahi: The Beginning (2015) and The Conclusion (2017) a joyous Tollywood epic based on childhood stories. We finish with the most expensive Chinese science fiction epic made so far: The Wandering Earth (2019), based on the book by Liu Cixin. Also: 9th Company (2005). Kung Fu conscripts. Enemy at the Gates (2001). Bad dubs. Geopolitical politics. Propaganda. Hindu theology. Multi-dubs. Ambidextrose. CGI animals. Coming to America (1988). Lars Andersen archery. Sunshine (2007). Armageddon (1998). People vs. person. Chekhov’s vodka. Spock vs. Corbyn. Willow (1988). We play a game of “Mundane Epics”