Author: Heath Andrews

When Bret Easton Ellis announced he was doing another book, my curiosity was piqued. That was back in the earlier part of the decade. COVID-19 was rampaging through the world and any kind of entertainment you could enjoy at home was a blessing. By the time his book, The Shards was released in January of 2023, the world was normalizing. That didn’t stop me from wanting to dive into the world that Ellis had written about. I hadn’t experienced the audio narrations that led to the novel. Maybe I should have. It would have saved me from reading one of…

It was just about a year ago that we reported some major Nintendo news. We knew The Legend of Zelda was coming as a film. We didn’t know who was playing the leads. That is, until Shigeru Miyamoto announced Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth would be playing Zelda and LInk respectively. There was a notable character left out of that announcement. What about the villainous Ganondorf? Who would be playing him? A year later and now we know. The Casting of Ganondorf The scourge of Hyrule, Ganondorf, will be played by Uli Latukefu. The Australian actor has previously appeared in Marco…

We’d really like to know what the hell is going on over at Disney. For a company that is as omnipresent and historic as they are, they’ve made a lot of questionable calls. We’ve been talking about some of them recently. For example, there’s the strange decision to cancel Wonder Man before its second season started production. Not so strange until you recall they had already greenlit it. What about that live-action Moana remake? How the hell do you spend $250 million on that? There are a lot of moving parts over there and at least one of them is…

This is not a pleasant article to be writing by any metric. Earlier this week, Perez Hilton, the renowned blogger and celebrity reporter, did something extremely disturbing and dangerous. We want to talk about this without being sensational or lurid. We also want to use this as an opportunity to talk about self-harm. Anyone is capable of it, and it doesn’t matter how famous, wealthy, popular, or successful someone is. What Happened to Perez Hilton? To get the basic facts out of the way, Hilton did a TikTok livestream that featured him cutting himself with a knife. TikTok suspended his…

How do you f**k up something as sure fire as a movie about Blade? It’s been seven years since Blade was announced at the San Diego Comic Con. It had everything lined up for success. Acclaimed short film and documentary maker Bassam Tariq would be directing. Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali would star as the titular dhampir. Add in the fact that the original two Blade films from 1998 and 2002 were well liked and still popular. Then take Marvel at its highpoint with Avengers: Endgame debuting a few months before. It could only spell good things. It yielded absolutely…

Before we report on the passing of Vincent Pastore, we want to note that he was much more than just his role on The Sopranos. It’s highly likely that you saw Pastore in multiple projects whether it was on the big screen or the little. He was a character actor just as much as he was a part of The Sopranos. But sometimes an actor stumbles upon a part in a show that transcends a lot of their other work. That was the case with Vincent Pastore. It’s with a heavy heart that we report the passing of this wonderful…

“Where does the budget of a movie go?” You may ask. Sometimes it’s very much evident on screen. It could be location shooting, grandiose special effects, or the names attached to the picture. Big names often demand big paychecks. And when those names have made a previous film successful, they often want more. Well, not just them. Their talent agencies, managers; everybody wants in. That seems to be a big reason why we haven’t seen that follow-up to Barbie just yet. This July marked three years since Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling took on the roles of Barbie and Ken…

Wow, we “wonder” how that happened! We talk about cancelled projects all the time at Nerdbot. We’ve seen completed films get completely scrapped. We’ve seen video games that were in development for YEARS suddenly get canned. Markets shift, public taste can change, and studios get scared. And while we don’t see this newly breaking situation as often, it can still happen. Despite announcing it would be renewed for a second season, Wonder Man has been cancelled for Disney+. Wonder is Wearing Off The term “superhero fatigue” has been tossed around a lot over the last few years. Some try to…

The concept of the “final girl” is one that horror fans are very well acquainted with. If you don’t know the phrase then it’s pretty much exactly what it sounds. Imagine a horror movie where a bunch of people die. Eventually there has to be only one victim/survivor left. Often times, it’s a girl. She’s the final girl. Laurie from Halloween, Ripley in Alien, Alice in the first Friday the 13th; pick your favorite from them and more. They’re survivors of horrible atrocities and the inspiration for the book, The Final Girl Support Group. Soon it’s going to become a…

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was nothing for theaters to worry about. Life was grand and so was the box office. All of that changed REAL quick once things shut down. Ever since then, box office metrics have often been measured in pre and post COVID times. There’s been a lot of stress about how theaters are faring, but the latest second quarter earnings for 2026 have been great. Let’s talk about why. Theater Profits Are Up Cinemark, one of the bigger theater chains in the country, saw a rise in sales for the quarter of up to $1.1…