Author: Heath Andrews

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…

The term “censorship” gets thrown around a lot with varying degrees of interpretation and severity. There are entire books that have been removed from circulation, words edited out of radio broadcasts, R-rated films cut down to a PG-13 cable television airing; you get the idea. While we can’t say for sure this example is “censorship” per say- it is a bit odd that Amazon has seemingly altered the iconic poster from the classic war film “Full Metal Jacket.” If director Stanley Kubrick was trying to drill at least one point home with his 1987 tale about the Vietnam War, it’s…

Have you ever felt like companies are intentionally making it harder for you to cancel subscriptions? Well, you may not be wrong. Subscription-based pricing models are wonderful for businesses who are just praying and hoping you’ll forget you’re even subscribed. Then they don’t have to provide any services while they still get the money. It’s arguable the strategy helps keeps various gyms alive! As much as this has been a running problem for many consumers, it appears that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) feels like Adobe has gone too far and now the feds are suing them over…

When you think of the show “Frasier,” you don’t really think of it as a workplace comedy. Sure, Frasier has a job and spends a lot of time there, but the show is mostly remembered for the bickering with his brother Niles and bungled romantic relationships with women. That being said, Frasier did have a good number of co-workers who had fairly prominent roles on the show. Even though this current revival of “Frasier” is far removed from his old workplace of radio station KACL, this apparently won’t stop some of his old cohorts from appearing in the upcoming second…

“Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?” This immortal line from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” always finds a way to be relevant. Just the other week, a bridesmaid had to remove a fairly large snake from her sister’s wedding party. And last year, homeowners found an infestation of snakes in their new house. Now we’ve got something on our hands that one-ups both of those, a possible attempted murder… by snake in the mail! Earlier this month, 60-year-old truck driver Elijah Bowles picked up a package at the post office in Twentynine Palms, California. It was addressed to…

Without exaggeration, “Reading Rainbow” is one of the most important programs to have been broadcast in the history of television. It succeeded in doing what many school systems were unable to do, get kids interested in reading. Across 24 years and 21 seasons of episodes, host LeVar Burton appeared on living room televisions across the country to introduce audiences of children and parents alike to stories of people and places. Many of these stories were on the written page while others were in live interviews and journeys to other parts of the world. You can learn more about how it…

The “Jurassic Park” franchise has had some huge names in Hollywood come and go through its gates over the last three decades. That roster of names expanded as the films expanded to “Jurassic World,” and ultimately mixed the old and the new casts together. We’re a couple of years removed from the most recent entry, “Jurassic World: Dominion,” and the franchise is back again with another film, another director, and another cast. Gareth Edwards (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “The Creator”) is set to direct what is being called a ‘reboot’ of “Jurassic World.” Scarlett Johansson has been reported…

It’s been a good long while since got to talk about “Dexter.” After the show ended in 2013, there was a lot of divisiveness about the ending. Ultimately it turned out to be a natural lead in to a revival that we got to watch in the tail end of 2021 called, “Dexter: New Blood.” While that seemed to be the definitive conclusion to the franchise, it turned out there was more to tell in the form of Dexter’s early years. The last we heard of the project, “Dexter: Original Sin,” was back in 2023, but now we’ve got a…