by Shawn Robare | Jan 30, 2024 | Read
The thing about being an obsessive fan of a very specific thing is that your enthusiasm for the subject will eventually burn out because there is nothing new left to discover about it. First, you absorb it, you watch the movie repeatedly, re-read a book, watch every...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 11, 2024 | Read
I love Robocop. I have since 1987 when I saw it, unedited and in its full gory glory at the too-young age of 10 years-old. The movie defines and underlines a transition in my life from child to pre-teen when my parents finally stopped struggling to hold me back from...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 26, 2023 | Read
I could smell the ammonia leaking from a box on the wobbly pallet from two aisles away, and I knew it would be one of those nights. Four months into my first real job, I worked the graveyard shift on the stock crew of my local Kroger supermarket in Duluth, Georgia. I...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 20, 2023 | Read
Have you ever watched a movie, had a very visceral reaction (be it love or hate), and then found yourself coming around so hard that you completely flipped your opinion on the film? I’ve had this happen a few times over the years and these movies tend to be the...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 20, 2023 | Read
The other day I got to thinking about the small collection of VHS tapes that I have sitting on my shelves and I wondered, if I had to chose a single tape to display, what would it be. If you know me at all, I’m fairly certain that you’d know the film I...
