Author: Heath Andrews

The Chia Pet has taken many forms over the last several decades. The decorative plant has built up its status as being both an easy plant to take care of and as a piece of pop culture art. As niche popular culture items have found their way into the greater zeitgeist, Chia Pets have expanded along with it to include things like “The Golden Girls,” Weird Al Yankovic, and Sonic the Hedgehog. Among many other things its responsible for, “The Simpsons” has brought us a number of scenes that would eventually turn into memes. One of these was taken from…

South Korea’s push into the global media scene has taken on several forms. K-pop has made a name for itself in the musical sphere, “Parasite” did exceedingly well in the 2019 Academy Awards, and series like “Squid Game” dominated popular discourse and streaming hours when it premiered on Netflix in 2021. The series from writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk has become something of an empire unto itself with spin-offs in the reality show sector, games, and influencing other projects and creators. About the only thing it doesn’t have at the moment is an English language version, but that might be…

The year was 1997 and movie audiences were about to be introduced to a unique science-fiction film that would leave a distinct visual impression on people for decades to come. It’s also the only film that would find Bruce Willis playing a taxi driver who stumbles upon a woman dressed in toilet paper and later watches a blue skinned alien opera singer perform an aria. Oh and Oscar winner Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, and comedian Chris Tucker are in there too. It’s complicated, it’s weird, it’s “The Fifth Element.” If you missed it in theaters when it first came out,…

There have been a great number of film adaptations we’ve reported on lately, ranging from a project based on the View-Master toy, to one about Sega’s “Shinobi” game series. Keeping in line with video game adaptations, now Apple is jumping in with a project that fittingly enough, was often played on their Apple II computers. That game of course, is the legendary edutainment product, “Oregon Trail.” If you’re of a certain age, you may remember a time when the Apple II computer was the height of technology in your school and a floppy disc was actually floppy. Those were the…

Over the last couple years, we’ve written more articles about McFlurries from McDonald’s than you might have expected. Looks like we’ve written about five of them in the last two years alone. We’re about to add a sixth. Two of those previous articles were about investigations into why those damned machines seem to be breaking down all the time. In our previous reports, we detailed how oddly problematic the situation really was but now we get to tell you that there’s hope that the sweet treat will be more reliably available. If you’ve ever been told that the machine is…

Well, that didn’t take long! Disney is prepping an upcoming film about Prince Charming; the character who was wooed by Cinderella at the ball and set off to find her. When you make an announcement like that, it almost turns into a reverse “Cinderella” plot at that point? Who’s going to play Prince Charming and can slip into the glass… uh… royal suit? Hollywood has no shortage of leading men, but Disney may have gone ahead and tapped its own well to bring out one of its standbys to take the role. Yes, that’s right, Disney is reportedly in talks…

Many a child of the ’80s and ’90s will remember the incessant commercials and jingles for Goldfish crackers. “I love the fishes cuz they’re so delicious, got to go fishin’!” There were others too that are planted into the recesses of our brains, but they all stem back to childhood and how appealing the fish-shaped crackers are to kids. What do you do though when you want to take that snack and broaden the market to adults? Well, obviously, you change the name of the crackers to Chilean Sea Bass. Yes, as of Wednesday, October 24th, the Pepperidge Farm produced,…

German composer (and former member of The Buggles) Hans Zimmer should be recognized as one of the greatest film composers in history. People like John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, and Zimmer have produced soundscapes that will live on in people’s memories and artistic expression for decades to come. Zimmer had taken home an Oscar back in 1995 for “The Lion King,” but he repeated the accolade in 2022 with his score for “Dune.” Sadly, he won’t have a chance to repeat that success with “Dune: Part 2” because the score is ineligible for a nomination. The problem…

There have been some videos and articles online that have shown people discussing or even going into small homes that are being bought from and delivered by Amazon and Walmart. These homes only cost $16,000. Mind you again, they’re small homes, but it’s just 16k! It sounds like some kind of Orwellian horror scape in a way, doesn’t it? Homes that just get manufactured en masse and delivered right to you; tight living quarters brought to you by big business. Are these things actually legitimate? Well, as of right now, yes, Walmart is indeed selling these things. But there are…

In 2004, “Scrubs” star Zach Braff released “Garden State,” his self-written and directed film. It was incredibly popular, especially with teens and young adults at the time. In the 20 years that have passed since its release, the film is now only really mentioned for two things. One of them is a now infamous plot device that would be another discussion for another time; the other is the soundtrack. It has since gone down as one of the best loved compilation soundtracks of all-time. Next year, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the film and its music, a concert…