Author: Heath Andrews

The world of amusement parks is not a cheap one to maintain. During the pandemic the tourism industry was hit hard, including theme parks of all kinds. Six Flags, one of the biggest non-Disney names in the business wasn’t faring all that well even before the pandemic and it certainly wasn’t doing any better after it. It only made sense for them to try and merge with another company to get a stronger foothold in the market. Earlier this year it was announced they intended to merge with Cedar Fair and that business arrangement is now complete. Cedar Fair is…

In the world of video games there’s been a company lurking around for decades called From Software. We’ll talk more about their history later, but they’re 2022 hit video game, “Elden Ring” is making the news again thanks to a new released downloadable expansion, “Shadow of the Erdtree.” One of the men responsible for helping to build and shape the world of the game is noted author George R. R. Martin (Game of Thrones). Apparently when he’s not writing the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, he’s busy helping construct entire worlds. And as it turns out, he may…

A couple of days ago, Paramount completed gutted several of its websites, removing thousands upon thousands of pages of content. Among the casualties was MTV News, and the tremendous depth of information they’d reported over a decades-long run. Without warning, the entirety of the site was wiped out. Two days later, Comedy Central’s website and more were also taken down. Fortunately, for MTV News at least, the Internet Archive has stepped up to make a searchable index of a large chunk of their content. If you’ve used the Wayback Machine that the Internet Archive provides for browsing old pages, then…

Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan has a new picture about to hit theaters- “Trap.” Shyamalan’s name can draw mixed reactions from people with how wildly varying in quality his catalog of films have been. One could make the argument that he’s been doing a bit better for himself lately with films like “Knock at the Cabin,” “Old,” and “Glass” performing well at the box office, even if the critical response has been mixed. Ahead of “Trap” though, the writer-director appears to want people to know his inspirations for the film before they go in. The first trailer for”Trap” has one of…

Another day, another twist in the mess that is the world of big media companies. It’s no secret that the likes of Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, and more have been feeling the hurt lately. All of the major players have been finding out that running your own streaming platform isn’t cheap or easy. In particular, Paramount scrubbed online content in order to direct people to Paramount+. But that cost saving measure is just putting a bandage on a sucking chest wound, which may be why they’re looking to merge with another company. While there are no certainties in the…

As much as the beloved sitcom “Frasier” lived and died by the chemistry between its main cast, it soared to even greater heights on the strength of its guest stars. There were a number of memorable guests over the years, from one offs like Sir Patrick Stewart and Michael Keaton, to recurring characters like Bebe Neuwirth as Lilith. But if there was one character who could rival Lilith in terms of evil, it was Frasier’s agent, Bebe Glazer. As the continuation of “Frasier” enters its second season, we know that Bebe is back! Bebe was first introduced in Frasier’s first…

There have been times where we’ve reported about studios removing content from their own streaming services as a cost-cutting measure. Netflix has been guilty of it, as has Hulu and certainly MAX. Hell, how many films/shows has HBO scrapped for a tax write-off? If there were two big takeaways from this, one is that no content is truly guaranteed to be archived by media corporations, and the second is that nothing is sacred if it means saving a dollar. This proved more true than ever when over the last couple of days, Paramount erased decades of history from the websites…

The 1990s were an amazing time to be a fan of fighting games. The creation of “Street Fighter II” lit the genre on fire, and Capcom found a way to keep fueling it with more and more games of consistently strong quality. This didn’t just mean “Street Fighter,” it also led to the “Darkstalkers” series, some oddball one-offs, and notably for this article, the Marvel series. Starting with Marvel characters and eventually evolving into a crossover with Capcom icons, a number of classic fighters were released that have been largely inaccessible for years. But all that changed with an announcement…

Back in 1998, movie audiences were treated to the fourth go around for police officers Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh. “Lethal Weapon 4” didn’t quite have the magic that the first three films did, but it was still a well-received continuation of the action-comedy, buddy cop franchise. For years afterwards, there were rumors that a fifth film would appear to round out the adventures of the two officers played by Mel Gibson (“Mad Max: The Road Warrior,” “Braveheart”) and Danny Glover (“Mandela,” “Predator 2”). But a number of things got in the way, one of them being Gibson’s ‘personal issues,’…

There was a time where actor Armie Hammer’s biggest problem was getting out of the hole that 2013’s “The Lone Ranger” film did to his career. It took him years to recover from that box-office bomb but come the dawn of the 2020’s, it looked like his career was actually coming back to critical and commercial success. And then it all went to hell thanks to accusations of sexual assault in 2021. Since then, Hammer’s public appearances have been scarce which makes his appearance on a small YouTube podcast this week all the more surprising. The “Painful Lessons” YouTube channel…