Joe Shearer started reviewing movies for INtake Magazine in April 2004 and wrote reviews tirelessly as the magazine shifted to Indy.com Magazine, until November 2008 when he was a casualty of the mag’s shift to national content.

A film geek at heart, Joe Shearer ’s love of cinema began in the drive-ins of Ft. Bragg, N.C., in the early 1980s, Indianapolis theaters of the mid-to-late 80s, cutting his teeth on films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellhole and Chopping Mall, and was cemented in 1989 at the age of 11 when he saw Tim Burton’s Batman on opening night, kicking off a weekend-long marathon of film where he and his dad watched a total of 15 movies between Friday evening and Monday evening.

An avid freelance writer, Joe has also written for MovieMaker Magazine, Trap & Field, Servo, and College Bound Teen Magazine, as well as maintaining a parenting blog at Indy Parent Source. He also writes a parenting column for Current in Noblesville.

In the real world, Joe is a resident of Noblesville, Ind., is married and has three children, all of whom he has immersed in moviedom, to his glee and his wife’s eternal consternation.