Author: Heath Andrews

The news is just hitting hard and fast lately when it comes to video game movies and Sydney Sweeney. And we don’t mean in separate fashions; we literally mean those two topics combined. A few days ago we reported that Sweeney was going to be teaming up with director Michael Bay to produce a movie based on Sega’s “OutRun” racing franchise. That’s… a choice… considering the franchise has been dead for a decade and a half. Now we have reports that Sweeney is going to be executive producer and star of another video game based film, but this time for…

It has been a momentous year for “Saturday Night Live.” The 2024 – 2025 season marked the show’s 50th anniversary and brought us some wonderful moments within and outside of the show’s special 50th anniversary broadcast. This year brought us another excellent John Mulaney episode, the return of Jack Black after a long absence as a host, and Oscar winner Mikey Madison amongst others. There are only three shows left to round out the year but it looks like it’s shaping up to finish extremely strong with two returning hosts and Walton Goggins making his “SNL” hosting debut! After a…

When Bill Hader left “Saturday Night Live” in 2013, it was anybody’s guess where he would end up and what he would end up doing. It was hard to deny Hader’s extensive talent and abilities, whether it be for impressions, or bizarre characters. We don’t think anybody could have predicted he would bring “Barry” into the world for a tremendous four-season run on HBO. “Barry” may have wrapped in 2023, but HBO still has plans with Hader for a potential series about Jonestown. Even though “Barry” could be darkly comedic, there was quite a lot of emphasis on the dark.…

April 22nd, 2025 was a pretty big day for fans of the Elder Scrolls series. The franchise hasn’t seen a mainline release since 2011 with “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.” Sure, there was that announcement of “Elder Scrolls VI” back several years ago, but we haven’t heard anything about it since. What was being heard around corners of the internet though were rumors of a remastering of “The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.” It was the internet’s worst kept secret over the last couple months and it was confirmed and released on the same day. Which also makes it a good…

Toys “R” Us has had a wild ride, hasn’t it? Once the premiere name in retail stores for kids, it is now an absolute shell of its former self. In the United States it has been reduced to pop-up stores in Macy’s and back in 2023 they were planning on expanding into airports and cruise ships. Still, the name recognition of the brand is such that even if you haven’t shopped there in decades, you more than likely know the name. That’s one of the reasons Toys “R” Us is teaming with Story Kitchen to develop an adventure movie about…

In October of last year, we reported that the classic Sega franchise, “Shinobi” was getting a video game adaptation. It was, by all rights, an odd choice given that the franchise has been all but abandoned by Sega. Sure, they want to chase after that video game adaptation money and have something else to go along with Sonic the Hedgehog, but Shinobi? Really? Well, if you thought that was an odd choice, things took a step in an even stranger direction with the announcement that an “OutRun” movie is on the docket. There was a time where “OutRun” was Sega’s…

Well, we’re going to admit, we didn’t see this one coming. In all of our reporting about the ludicrousness surrounding Fyre Festival 2, we figured we’d just keep hearing more and more about it failing to happen. Which absolutely happened, shocking no one. What we didn’t expect within the madness, lack of artists, and dates shifting around, is ‘Fyre’ being licensed to become a music streaming service. Yes, as absurd as it sounds, Fyre has reportedly entered into a deal with Shawn Rech to become a streaming service for musicians and fans alike. The festival itself is a separate matter…

Back in 1991, video game behemoth Nintendo released an ad for their upcoming successor to the Nintendo Entertainment System. This 16-bit console, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was a game changer for its time, and the advertisement for it featured a little-known actor at that time who would later become a game changer himself. That actor was Paul Rudd. Flash-forward almost 35 years later and Nintendo has a new console coming out, the Switch 2, but they brought back an old friend to do a commercial for it. Nintendo recently released the original Super Nintendo ad on their YouTube channel,…

In 1990, a little film by the name of “Tremors” sent some powerful ripples through the horror film community. The writing team of Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson along with director and co-writer, Ron Underwood dropped upon the world a movie about subterranean monsters that terrorized the small town of Perfection, Nevada. It was a cult hit that flourished once it hit video rental stores and managed to spawn six sequels in addition to a short-lived television show. Die-hard franchise fans will know that after “Tremors 4: The Legend Begins,” Universal Pictures shifted control of the series away from its…

It’s a good time period to be a fan of Kaiju. Those of us old enough to live through the disaster that was 1998’s “Godzilla” feared that would spell the end of giant monster movies. For a while, it did. Thanks to films like “Cloverfield,” and the reemergence of the actual “Godzilla” franchise, Kaiju are back and better than ever. Some of this may not have been possible though without “Pacific Rim.” Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro’s love letter to giant monster films gave Legendary Pictures a new franchise to play with. With the help of Amazon MGM Studios, the…