by Shawn Robare | May 12, 2015 | Look
I’m still toying around with the idea of making this a regular feature here at Branded, but after recently creating the sorely needed and non-existent Adventures in Babysitting cards a couple weeks ago I got to talking with my pal and Cult Film Club co-host...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 30, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
While discussing Mannequin on the latest episode of the Cult Film Club (a podcast I co-host) we brought up the fact that in the 80s “unconventional” romances on film was sort of a thing. You know, boy sculpts girl, boy gets fired for taking too long...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 24, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Getting old is weird. As if succumbing to the crippling pull of childhood nostalgia in my mid-twenties wasn’t weird enough, lately I’ve been feeling a similar wave of emotion towards the content that I presented at the outset of this very website. Back...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 16, 2015 | Look
This past October I had a whole hell of a lot of fun spending the entire month talking about one of my favorite movies of all time, The Monster Squad. Part of what made those 31 days exciting for me was working on a project where I I got a chance to utilize my meager...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 8, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Lately I’ve been going back through some of my older sticker posts here at Branded and looking for gaps in what I’ve covered (80s pop culture-wise.) I was kind of surprised that I never invested in any E.T. stickers when I initially started collecting. ...