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...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 15, 2023 | Read
In Hua Hsu’s poignant memoir Stay True, he brings up this idea of the harmony of experience as it pertains to loving a song, in his specific case, the Beach Boys God Only Knows from their masterwork Pet Sounds. Hsu describes the idea that as we’re introduced to a...
