Author: Heath Andrews

This October 28th will mark three years since the passing of actor Matthew Perry. Does it seem like it’s been that long? We swear it doesn’t feel that way to us. He’ll, of course, be remembered as Chandler on Friends, but he had the film The Whole Nine Yards in there. He also had his remake series of The Odd Couple that ran for years. And considering the demon of addiction he was facing… well, in some ways it’s remarkable he kept managing to work at all. In his final years, he tried to present a picture of wellness and…

Few shows have had the kind of longevity that Futurama has had. Still, it’s drawn the short straw in the pantheon of American animated classics. The Simpsons, King of the Hill, South Park, and Family Guy are pretty much considered the peak of animated comedies. Even if Family Guy doesn’t really deserve to be on that… still, they’ve all had longer runs than Futurama. Especially now that King of the Hill has had a successful revival. But the adventures of Fry and his friends have been saved on multiple occasions. With its run coming to an end on Hulu, though,…

Batman is one of the more legendary and well-known figures to emerge from comic books and into the wider popular culture. Everyone knows Batman. He is DC’s poster child, arguably bigger and better than Superman. If we go by box office metrics, that’s certainly the case. If Image Comics had a poster child, it would have to be Spawn. The former Al Simmons, who was killed, made a deal with the devil, and came back to Earth under a twisted deal, now a Hellspawn. Spawn, for short. In the world of comics, mashups happen all the time. So, why wouldn’t…

For decades, Batman has been the poster child for DC movies. Superman made the world believe a man could fly in 1978. Subsequent sequels brought him crashing down to Earth. 1989’s Batman put Bruce Wayne front and center for DC projects, with Superman a distant memory. Now, for the first time, we have established, successful Batman and Superman projects happening. Matt Reeves is pushing Batman along. James Gunn is tackling Superman. But Batman himself doesn’t see him coming into contact with his fellow super buddy. Robert Pattinson Batman vs James Gunn’s DCU Robert Pattinson gave the world a successful turn…

Over the course of this year, we’ve had reason to celebrate at Nerdbot. We’ve seen lower-budget, independent filmmaking hit it big in theaters. It was hinted at a bit with Markiplier and Iron Lung. Then it was fully cemented with Curry Barker and Obsession, as well as Kane Parsons and Backrooms. It’s exactly what the film industry needs right now. It has helped the box office for 2026 become one of the best in history. It looks like it has Hollywood investors running scared. A Conference of Dunces The San Sebastian Film Festival’s Creative Investors’ Conference took place recently, with…

NASCAR isn’t really a subject we cover a lot here at Nerdbot. Actually, sports in general aren’t a topic we cover much. There are so many other websites dedicated to sports that you’d normally be better off going to them instead of us. There are moments, though, where we can shine in this field with the right conditions. When John Madden passed away, for example, that was something that impacted sports and popular culture heavily. There was also that moment in 2022 when Antonio Brown up and quit mid-game. That kind of stuff never happens. Today is different, though. Today…

Over two months ago, a bloodbath happened at Xbox. Thousands of layoffs took place, and several studios were cut out and left for dead. It was hinted at the time that this was just the start of things. Well, another shoe dropped on September 22, 2026. More layoffs, another potential studio closure. On top of all that, a realignment has taken place that underscores how screwed the brand is. The Xbox layoffs are bad enough but what’s left behind may be in a worse spot. Asha Sharma & the Xbox Layoffs When Asha Sharma was appointed as the CEO of…

Schedule shuffling is an increasingly common thing in the film industry. Sometimes a film needs some elbow room to make some money. And if a film is big enough, other projects want to give it that room. Hard to make money when someone else is eating up all of it. And then sometimes you just don’t know why certain things are shifting. Take the upcoming Gremlins film. Let’s just call it Gremlins 3. That just got its clock-punch back a year. And did you even know there was a Dynamic Duo film happening? What the Hell is Dynamic Duo? Let’s…

The fascination with the British Royal Family is never-ending. For all the buzz that surrounds Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, that’s nothing new. There was a lot of discourse around Prince William and Kate Middleton. Then, of course, there was Princess Diana, the mother of Harry and William. Next year will be 30 years since her passing. There’s going to be a new documentary called Diana Unheard coming out about her that features previously unreleased audio recordings. But I want to use this opportunity to turn this into a recollection of the impact Diana had on the people I grew…

The fall of 1996 graced the world with the Nintendo 64. It was the Big N’s next step up from the Super Nintendo. Anticipation was understandably high. The Super Nintendo was iconic. It had gone to war with the Sega Genesis and won. But gaming was evolving into the 3D space. The PlayStation was already on the market, and the CD technology was making huge changes to how games were developed. The Nintendo 64 was going to be a cartridge-based system. How was that going to stack up against what Sony was offering with the PSX? Let’s take a look…