Robert Balkovich
School
The Pratt Institute
Expertise
Prestige Detective Dramas, The World Of Westeros, Reality Competition Shows
- Robert has been a film and TV buff since he was a teen, renting Quentin Tarantino movies and "Twin Peaks" DVDs at Blockbuster.
- Before working for Looper, Robert was a regular writer for The Film Experience and published work in Vulture and PopMatters.
- Robert's writing has received personal shoutouts from Kathy Griffin, "Daredevil" showrunner Steven S. DeKnight, and actor Mary Lynn Rajskub.
Experience
Robert Balkovich has been working as a freelance writer and editor for over ten years. In addition to taking jobs doing copywriting for real estate listings and sneaker retail websites, he has consistently parlayed his love of pop culture into writing that has appeared in The Film Experience, Vulture, Boing Boing, and PopMatters, among other publications. Robert is a frequent guest on the "All Things Cozy" podcast and, for a period, was the co-host of the "Good For Her!" podcast along with Matt Harkins and Viviana Olen of the Tonya Harding Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Museum (THNK1994). In his spare time, he writes fiction.
Education
Robert attended a workshop heavy fiction writing program at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and graduated with a BFA.
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Stories By Robert Balkovich
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Director Ridley Scott just revealed that a sequel to his mega-hit 2000 historic epic Gladiator may be coming soon.
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The Saw franchise is known for having jaw-dropping twists and Jigsaw is no exception. Here's the clue you may have missed in the first 10 minutes of the movie.
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The Reapers have made for intense antagonists on Season 11 of The Walking Dead but some fans have questions about the logic of the group.
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