Author: Heath Andrews

Mergers between large companies are rarely a good thing in the long run for consumers. Competition helps drive the market in favor of buyers. When companies start buying out the competition, suddenly, there are fewer options for consumers. We see this in any number of industries, but we’re specifically seeing it more in the media landscape. The upcoming, dangerously Donald Trump-friendly acquisition of Warner Bros. by Paramount is not helping things. But as an episode of The Simpsons (now owned by Disney) once famously exclaimed, “Won’t somebody please think of the children!” Or Netflix and the children, in this case.…

Last week, we reported on some fairly shocking news about Hulu’s reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Despite all expectations, the pilot episode was not picked up for a series order. This is despite the talents of Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao behind the camera. Even the reappearance of the original Buffy, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, didn’t help. At the time of the initial report, all we could do was speculate. Now, more information is coming out as to why the pilot got staked through the chest. Please keep in mind that all of the information is speculative and comes from…

A network TV shocker has just imploded on the national scene. This Sunday, March 22nd, ABC was set to air the premiere of its latest season of The Bachelorette. A lot of heavy promotion poured into this show already. Taylor Frankie Paul was set as the lead in the show. Paul has risen in stardom thanks to appearing on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. As quickly as her star has risen, its now plummeted and taken The Bachelorette with it. We’re not entirely sure what Disney was expecting to happen here. Paul and her former partner, Dakota Mortensen had…

Kumite, Kumite, Kumite, Kumite! This chant of the Japanese word for “grappling hands” is no stranger to anyone who has watched the film Bloodsport. The film has a wild history and brought actor Jean-Claude Van Damme into the mainstream. It’s the kind of film that could only have come out when it did in the late 80s. It is a bombastic mess of cliches, over-the-top acting, fight choreography, and gloriously ’80s music. It’s also getting a reboot. What is Bloodsport? Is Bloodsport the kind of film that needs a remake? No, it really doesn’t. At least, not in the traditional…

Of the many books that children and teens are introduced to in school, few have the impact of Lord of the Flies. The 1954 novel by William Golding tells a harrowing tale that has been reused in other media. A plane crash ends up stranding a group of schoolboys on a deserted island. Left alone, they must fend for themselves to survive. What happens is a devolution of human nature in primal and violent ways. Several adaptations have been made over the years, and one of them is coming to Netflix. This most recent version of Lord of the Flies…

The 2025 Academy Award ceremony was a wonderfully fun affair. First-time host Conan O’Brien nailed the job so hard that the Academy invited him back for 2026. One of the only things that held back last year’s ceremony was the relative obscurity of the favorites to win. That’s one of the reasons why the Best Film category was expanded to 10 films in 2009. Even with that, the 97th Academy Awards didn’t have an awful lot going for it in terms of populist fare. This year was a bit different, though; it had Sinners. The Ryan Coogler-directed movie was the…

There have been many revivals and reboots announced over the last decade. These projects can be very hit or miss. Some of them turn out to be huge hits like King of the Hill. Others are massive misfires that get scrapped after the pilot is made. Remember that proposed Powerpuff Girls live-action revival? Yeah, neither do we. We had our eye on the proposed revival of Buffy the Vampire Slayer over the last couple of years. It looked like it had some powerful momentum behind it. Turns out, momentum doesn’t guarantee success as Hulu put a stake through its heart.…

With technology comes change. With change comes fear. Technology can also do great and wonderful things, though. Things that are full of joy and wonder and purpose. We’d like to think those are the emotions that were going through the head of a Reddit user who happens to have a knack for 3D printing. This magnificent human being has crafted a beautiful ode to The Simpsons that is as practical as it is marvelous. The Creation Imagine you want to watch The Simpsons. Now, imagine you want to watch it on a replica of the TV that the titular family…

We knew another season of Rick and Morty was on the horizon, but we just didn’t know when it would happen. The animated, sci-fi comedy remains one of the most popular shows still premiering on cable television. It’s also one of the things keeping Adult Swim and, by proxy, Cartoon Network, alive. For eight seasons so far, the titular duo has crossed worlds and dimensions, resulting in madcap insanity, clones, and so much more than can ever be summed up in a paragraph. Again, we all knew another season was coming; now we get to say when. In what’s actually…

The saga of Middle-earth has been documented in at least two trilogies of films. One of the main fixtures of The Lord of the Rings trilogy was the character of Gollum. Played to perfection in motion capture and voice acting by Andy Serkis. Serkis revived the role of Gollum in the first of the Hobbit trilogy. Since then, he’s been involved in many projects, including acting, writing, and directing. We’ve previously reported that he’s working as the director and star of The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. Now, we can report that the Academy Award-winning actress, Kate…