Author: Heath Andrews

“Saturday Night Live” has celebrated its landmark 50th anniversary. The resulting special featured a lot of guest appearances from performers past, and many predicted a shift going into Season 51. They weren’t wrong. This year has seen the largest cast exodus since 2022 when we said goodbye to heavyweight performers like Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryan, and Kyle Mooney. We thought the cast departures were done for 2025 into 2026, but Bowen Yang has proven us wrong. Yang’s departure echoes that of Cecily Strong in 2022. Her leaving came as a surprise to viewers when she announced it during…

In early 2024, Luc Besson (“The Fifth Element,” “Lucy”) revealed he was bringing Dracula back to the big screen in “Dracula: A Love Story.” Flash forward almost one year and one “Nosferatu” later, we have a trailer, a release date, and two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz in the lead. The timing of this film seems pretty impeccable. Robert Eggers scored a sizable hit with “Nosferatu,” which debuted in theaters Christmas 2024. The complicated history over the alleged plagiarism of Bram Stoker’s novel by the original 1922 film “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” has long since passed thanks to things lapsing…

Romania isn’t a country that’s well known for tourism. When the average tourist thinks of traveling through Europe, you hear stories of seeing the Eifel Tower in France, the street of Venice, or perhaps the Acropolis in Greece. Romania, while a beautiful country, doesn’t usually receive the same recognition. Not unless you’re a massive fan of vampires, since Dracula’s Castle was famously located in the Transylvanian region of the country. Some prospective amusement park developers have realized this, and are hoping to cash in with Dracula Land. Dracula Land wants to go ALL-IN on every single possible thing, all at…

The film industry is a world of highs and lows. Sometimes you’re cruising and releasing hit after hit, other times you have a surprising dud that turns a surefire franchise into yesterday’s news. Right now, Universal is staring at the latter of these two situations in the aftermath of “M3GAN 2.0” and the spin-off film that was slated for release. Now there’s been a shake-up that’s unique even in these tumultuous Hollywood days. When “M3GAN” hit theaters in 2022, the film was a surprisingly strong success for Blumhouse, Atomic Monster, and Universal Pictures. The horror/comedy took home over $180 million…

Devastating news last night that acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner was murdered alongside his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner. There are no words to properly convey how tragic the situation is. Details are still emerging, but Rob and Michelle’s son Nick Reiner has been arrested for murder. Reports indicate the couple’s daughter Romy is who found them, and called 911. This horrible situation hasn’t stopped some people from distorting the narrative surrounding these horrific events. One of the people doing so is convicted felon and current president of the United States, Donald Trump. Among the many things Rob Reiner was…

Well, this is a new one for us. We’re all used to Florida Man stories. Someone in Florida does something uniquely weird that makes news for very good reason. There are certainly no shortage of these stories, but this latest one is in a league of its own. This one involves teleportation, comic book heroes, aliens, and a stolen BMW. Florida resident Calvin Curtis Johnson was allegedly spotted around Bicentennial Park in Ormond Beach on Monday, December 8th, 2025. There at the same time was a man who was reportedly walking his dog and had left his keys in the…

Thanks to Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” there’s a lingering legacy around Transylvania and how it fits into the vampire mythos. While it may be unfair to the people who live there, there’s no denying the eeriness to the area. This otherworldliness casts an even more unsettling aura over the disappearance of a young hiker who has been missing in the area for days. George Smyth, 18, is a student at the University of Bristol. On November 23rd, he went on a hike through the Bucegi mountain range in Romania. Previous reports indicated he was planning to see Dracula’s Bran Castle, but…

Paul Verhoeven’s “Starship Troopers” was absolutely ripe for being made into a video game. The feature was big on satire, excessive violence, and over the top bravado. It helps that it was adapted to the screen by Edward Neumeier (“Robocop”). The film seems ready-made for a first person shooter with giant bugs, giant guns, and squad-based tactics. Despite this, there’s been a shocking lack of decent games based on the franchise. Dotemu and Auroch Digital are looking to change that. The closest thing we’ve seen lately to a “Starship Troopers” game has been “Helldivers 2.” The title captures the satire,…

It may not have been a “long” time ago in a galaxy far, far, away, but its been almost fifty years since the original “Star Wars” hit movie theaters. It was 1977, and the world was not ready for what director George Lucas was bringing. The franchise took the world by storm, and the merchandising alone helped change the notion of what a cinematic success was. But that original theatrical version has been lost to time thanks to numerous revisions from Lucas. But, the dream of a re-release of that version will happen in 2027! Various parts of the franchise…

Every year that the holiday season comes around again, families have the chance to watch some age-old Christmas programming. With the advent of streaming services and proliferation of home media, these airings aren’t as epic as they used to be, but for many a child of the ’80s and ’90s, these were events to remember. If only we had known at the time that one of these classics, “Frosty the Snowman,” featured a voice actor who may have been a snowman on television, but was allegedly a notorious philanderer in real life. The 1969 Rankin/Bass animated special of “Frosty the…