Author: Heath Andrews

Say what you will about Mel Gibson, but he has been in some amazing movies. Yes, the guy is uh, let’s say, “troubled.” Despite this, he has a pretty fantastic film resume with the Lethal Weapon series being a big staple of them. Across four films he plated Martin Riggs alongside Danny Glover’s Roger Murtagh. Together they tackled the drug trade, South African diplomats, arms dealing, and counterfeiting. That was ages ago now. We’ve reported that Lethal Weapon 5 was supposed to happen, now Mel is giving us an update. From Donner to Gibson One of the reasons those four…

We live in a strange and worrying time. Thanks to the culture of the internet, certain voices can get amplified with ease. Some of the more troubling perspectives are those of the male “incel” community. While the term stands for involuntarily celibate, its taken on a much more toxic definition. Often, the people who find themselves “involuntarily celibate” display contempt and hatred for women. They combine that with a sense of entitlement that doubles down on the negative personality traits, further isolating them from the women they feel they deserve. Good subject for a rom-com, eh? Zarrar Khan vs The…

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Marvel used to publish Star Wars comics. Shortly after the debut of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope a comic series continued the adventures. That series was indeed published by Marvel and ran into the mid 80s. At some point in the early ’90s, Dark Horse Comics took over the license and ended up releasing some absolute bangers. Skip ahead about twenty years from then and Disney would hold both Star Wars and Marvel under the same corporate umbrella. It was only a matter of time before someone…

Jim Carrey has had a strange career over the last ten years. Despite having a tremendous run of films through the mid 90s to the mid 2000’s, he hasn’t capitalized on that fame in recent years. Believe it or not, the only films Carrey has done across the last decade have been the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Granted, he does a fine job as Dr. Robotnik, but this seems like a huge waste of his considerable talents. We’re not sure if this latest role is going to really change that, but we’re eventually going to see him as George Jetson.…

If you’ve followed Nerdbot for a while, then you fully well know about our love of Frasier. Specifically, this author’s love of the show. It’s my opinion that Frasier is the greatest sitcom in the history of the genre. Yes, Cheers is wonderful and I adore that to tears. Still, Frasier took character humor to a wittier level with its highbrow dialogue and farcical stories. So many episodes play out like they could have been theatrical productions. The players on that stage elevated that material to the legendary heights we know today. One of them, actress Jane Leeves, recently announced…

There are so many obvious jokes that someone could make about the Jurassic Park franchise being dated. It’s like a dried-up fossil! They brought it back to life just like the dinosaurs in the movies! Or perhaps most fittingly, “your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should. Change the word “scientists” to “filmmakers” and you’ve got yourself the Jurassic Park franchise as it is right now. Maybe this is why director Gareth Edwards has just left the latest entry in the series. Gareth Edwards Rise to Fame Gareth…

What a difference a day can make. Just yesterday, August 6th, we reported that Uli Latukefu would be taking on the role of Ganondorf in the upcoming Legend of Zelda film. The villainous character is one of the more imposing figures in video game history. That news also came a year after the news about Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth playing Zelda and Link respectively. Well, we didn’t have to wait a year to find out even more casting news. It actually took less than a day. In some news that’s extremely bittersweet, it’s being reported that the late, great, Sam Neill…

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…