Add Some Sumptuous Silence to Your Halloween Watchlists with Lon Chaney’s ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ September 20, 2021
Witness the Birth and Evolution of a Genius: Three Early Makoto Shinkai Films Land on Blu-ray June 16, 2022
Books Quirk Books Helps You Drown Yourself in the Relentless Positivity of Mister Rogers Lyrics Mister Rogers is having a moment. And I couldn’t be happier. As someone who grew up in his neighborhood and who watched the ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 19, 20190
Great Big Beautiful Podcast GBBP 215: Ronald L. Smith This week, things are gettin' creepy with author Ronald L. Smith. We talk all his books and focus on the newest one: 'The ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 14, 20190
Featured Post A Chat with Russall Beattie about His Star Wars Burlesque Show ‘The Empire Strips Back’ These are the droids you’re looking for. Sorry. I was legally required by internet law to write that. I tried to avoid it, ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 13, 20190
Past Giveaways Ticket Giveaway: Day Out With Thomas at Baltimore’s B&O Railroad Museum If you missed out on The Roarbots’ giveaway last month for a family 4-pack of tickets to Day Out with Thomas at Baltimore’s ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 11, 20190
Animation Studio Ghibli Fest Arrives to Save 2019 Look, everything is awful and the world is on fire. I know. And lord knows 2019 can use all the help it can ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 7, 20190
Retro ‘Kid Icarus’ Flies Onto Nintendo Switch Online Nintendo has always been a bit “behind the times” when it comes to online play. Certainly, its games haven’t had the robust online ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 6, 20190
Doctor Who The First Eight: Classic Doctor Who: “The Dalek Invasion of Earth” Welcome to The First Eight – The Roarbots’ classic Doctor Who watchthrough. We’re going through the 50+ year history of the Doctor Who franchise in ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 6, 20190
Featured Post ‘My Neighbor Totoro’: 30 Years Old and Still Perfect Reviewing Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro is an exercise in futility. There’s no point. It’s a masterpiece of its medium. It’s simply one ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 6, 20190
Featured Post Parks Canada Adventures: Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site Welcome to The Roarbots’ series of Parks Canada Adventures. Similar to our NPS Adventures, this series takes a big-picture view of a single Parks Canada site ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 5, 20190
Great Big Beautiful Podcast GBBP 214: Tom Angleberger On this episode, I'm joined by Meg Humphrey to geek out about Tom Angleberger's criminally underappreciated 'The Mighty Chewbacca in the Forest of ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 5, 20190
Books Dark, Twisted, and Hilarious: Rhett Miller and Dan Santat Team Up for ‘No More Poems!’ As if Rhett Miller weren’t already busy enough. In addition to being the lead singer of the Old 97s, he released a new solo album ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 4, 20191
Animation GKIDS Retrospective: The Night is Short, Walk on Girl We continue our series of reviews chronicling all of the (non-Studio Ghibli) animated films distributed by GKIDS Films — some of the most original and breathtakingly beautiful animated ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 1, 20190
Past Giveaways Giveaway: E.K. Johnston’s ‘Queen’s Shadow’ To celebrate the release of Queen’s Shadow, E.K. Johnston’s Star Wars book about Padmé Naberrie (Queen Amidala) and her handmaidens that’s set between ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 1, 20190
Featured Post Take an Inexplicable, Genre-Bending Ride on the ‘Horror Express’ Are you looking for a good way “in” to low-budget, somewhat schlocky horror from the 60s and 70s? Look, I know that’s kind ... By Jamie GreeneMarch 1, 20190
Featured Post NPS Adventures: Monocacy National Battlefield The Roarbots’ series of NPS Adventures takes a big-picture view of one location within the National Park Service and highlights some of the best activities that ... By Jamie GreeneFebruary 27, 20190
Past Giveaways Giveaway: A Trio of Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen Books! To celebrate the imminent release of Circle, the third and final book in Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen’s Shapes trilogy, The Roarbots is ... By Jamie GreeneFebruary 25, 20190
Reviews Playmobil: Tiny Paws Pet Hotel Welcome to the Playmobil Playroom, where we occasionally take a peek inside those impressive blue boxes and see what treasures await within. Sometimes we’ll have step-by-step ... By Jamie GreeneFebruary 25, 20190
Backroads Travel Backroads Travel: How to Drive to Newfoundland Backroads Travel is an occasional series that focuses on out-of-the-way, lesser-known, or otherwise off-the-beaten-track travel destinations that are nevertheless well worth the time and ... By Jamie GreeneFebruary 22, 20190
Great Big Beautiful Podcast GBBP 213: Skottie Young This week, we're geeking out with one of our very favorite artists working in comics/graphic novels today: Skottie Young! By Jamie GreeneFebruary 21, 20190
Books ‘Roller Girl’ Skates onto Audiobook with a Full Cast Performance It’s no secret that we’re big fans of audiobooks here at Roarbots HQ. Both of my kids listen to audiobooks every night as ... By Jamie GreeneFebruary 19, 20190
Add Some Sumptuous Silence to Your Halloween Watchlists with Lon Chaney’s ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ September 20, 2021
Witness the Birth and Evolution of a Genius: Three Early Makoto Shinkai Films Land on Blu-ray June 16, 2022
90 Days of Huel: I Drank My Food for Three Months. Here Are the Results. September 23, 201959580 views
