Author: Heath Andrews

Just a hair over 30 years ago, one of the most legendary anime series of all-time premiered: “Neon Genesis Evangelion.” Since then, it has had a massive impact on anime, video games, manga, and a mess of other forms of media. It pushed Japanese animation forward as an art form by combining otherwise familiar character archetypes and mecha with themes that were deeply philosophical and religious, with a touch of the avant garde. It also had one hell of a theme song in the form of “Cruel Angel’s Thesis.” Now, three decades later, we are excited to report that a…

Writer/director Guillermo del Toro is one of the few auteurs in filmmaking today who can carry an artistic vision to the screen and draw the masses in to watch it. He has managed to bridge the gap that’s often found between virtuosity and popularism. “The Shape of Water” for example, took home four Academy Awards in 2018 including best picture. It also made roughly ten times its budget back at the box office. So yeah, Del Toro seems to know what he’s doing considering his version of “Frankenstein” is up for nine award categories this year as well. Oh, and…

Everything’s coming up “Golden” for “KPop Demon Hunters.” The intensely popular animated film has been earning accolades left and right since it released on Netflix in June of 2025. Between costumes, toys, soundtrack sales, and critical awards, it’s a juggernaut that can’t really be stopped. It’s nominated for two upcoming Academy Awards, including Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. Winning either of those will induct it into an elite class of films, but it’s also attained that status in a different way thanks to Criterion. What a Criterion Collection Release Really Means When it comes to the preservation and…

For the better part of a decade now, a musical mastermind has been working his magic on YouTube. Bill McClintock seems to have developed an ear for songs that can be mashed up to form things that should not exist. Yet despite this, they often combine in astoundingly catchy and earwormy ways. Of course, music taste will vary from person to person. Even though we think these are his five best creations, we encourage you to check out his YouTube channel and comb through his work. “Burn” – “Disco Inferno” by The Trammps and “Dragula” by Rob Zombie One of…

The breaking news from the world of Pokémon today confirmed a recent rumor that had been circulating online. Next week’s Pokémon Presents would include a re-release of Pokémon Fire Red and Pokémon Leaf Green to the Nintendo Switch consoles. The games are up for pre-order on the Switch Online right now at $19.99 a pop. And these aren’t remakes of those games either, these are straight ports of the Game Boy Advance games. It’s nice to have access to these titles outside of their original handheld consoles, but we deserve better on multiple levels. First, let’s talk about the release…

The history of popular music has a long list of actors who have tried being a singer or musician. The results have been… mixed, we’re going to say mixed. Quite a few of them have actually scored some hits, Bruce Willis and Don Johnson for example hit the top 10 with “Express Yourself” and “Heartbeat” respectively. The same can’t be said for William Shatner, but he’s giving it a shot again with an album of metal covers. William Shatner’s Musical History When people think about Shatner singing, what often comes to mind is his performance of Elton John’s “Rocket Man”…

A wise philosopher once stated that “life moves fast.” They were right. In the hectic news cycle that we all live in, stories come and go and may not stick around in our heads for too long. That’s why we wanted to take a moment to go back and revisit something that happened almost 10 years ago now. It was a different time then, but not so different that anyone would’ve accepted that a bank robbery would be a good idea for a first date. It was early December and the holiday season was getting into full swing in Rhode…

The internet loves a good mystery. The internet actually kind of loves any mystery whether it’s good or not. Take for example a picture of the wrestler Sting reading a Far Side comic and having a good laugh at it. It’s humorous seeing a hulking mass of wrestling muscle chuckling at a cartoon, but what one was he laughing at? The world needs to know, what Gary Larson creation led to this reaction? The internet has pretty much narrowed it down. In a series of posts on Bluesky, Cow Tools Daily (an account name that’s a direct reference to an…

It’s been 31 years since Nintendo’s much maligned Virtual Boy came to the market. Much has been written about the console’s massive failure just as there has been considerable conjecture about what Nintendo was thinking. Between the allegations of it potentially damaging children’s eyes, being a horribly non-portable portable system, and the red and black LED display, people didn’t have a lot of good things to say about it. Now, with Nintendo resurrecting the console via the Nintendo Switch Online and separately purchasable peripheral, it’s back. And after the time I’ve spent with it, I feel like we were way…

We are living in strange times. The video game industry has not been doing well and the cracks are showing in various places. Developers continue to lay people off or close entire divisions, high profile games are getting cancelled, the retro game market is seeing prices surging, and current console and computer hardware are seeing price increases too. So far, Nintendo is the only major console manufacturer that hasn’t increased the price of their latest hardware, but rumors are abound that this is set to change. Nintendo Switch 2 Price Rumors Explained When the Switch 2 released on June 5th,…