Author: Heath Andrews

It’s become all too familiar of a story in the age of streaming media; show gets the greenlight, gets critical acclaim, but not enough viewership to warrant production costs. It airs for one season, and is never heard from again. As the battle between streaming platforms has increased in intensity over the last couple years, you’d be hard pressed not to find a show this has happened to. But for Amazon Prime Video’s “A League of Their Own,” the story’s not quite over yet. While it’s not another season for the Rockford Peaches, they’re at least getting some extra innings.…

When “Super Mario Bros.” was introduced to the world in 1985, no one could’ve predicted how the game would permanently ingrain itself into popular culture. Here we are in 2023, and the characters from the gaming franchise have become household names. Millions upon millions of Mario games have been sold, and “The Super Mario Bros.” movie is currently setting box office records. If that wasn’t enough, the game now has another notable distinction, thanks to the Library of Congress and its National Recording Registry. Since 2002, the Library of Congress selects a group of recordings to include in its National…

It seems like we have been reporting on “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai” for years. Oh wait, we have. Of course, a lot has happened since 2019. Not the least of which was a global pandemic that delayed virtually everything, including this project. Here we are in 2023, and we finally have not only a firm release date, but a full on trailer! Aside from a couple of video game releases, “Gremlins 2: The New Batch” was the last full-on piece of Gremlins content we received and that was all the way back in 1990. This series is set decades…

Unless you were around in the early 90s, it’s hard to forget how big of a deal “Street Fighter II: The World Warrior” was. It was a smash hit in the arcades and was one of the biggest selling non-Nintendo published game for the SNES. Sega was clamoring for their own version, as was every other console and handheld at the time. The Capcom franchise is still performing strongly. Enough so the gaming publisher has sold development rights to Legendary Pictures for future film and television projects. This isn’t the first time Legendary has worked with a video game property…

Professional wrestling storylines tend to be filled with crazy twists and turns. Part of the appeal is the absurdity of it all and the feeling of not knowing where the writers will go with things. That being said, this real life storyline about the possible sale of the WWE is the craziest storyline of them all. Vince McMahon came back to the company with a potential sale, and it looks like he found a buyer in the form of Endeavor. And it only gets weirder from there. Endeavor has their hands in a few couple different businesses, one of them…

In April of 2023 it will have been 10 years since the passing of author and film critic, Roger Ebert. On April 2nd 2013, he made a post to his website titled “A Leave of Presence.” Describing it does not do it justice, but essentially Roger tells us that his battle with cancer has worsened, and he won’t be able to write as much as he wants to. He also won’t be able to see as many films as he’d like. Nevertheless, he tries to spin this in a positive light, stating that now he can focus on the movies…

Auctioning off memorabilia from films and television is not an uncommon thing. Just the other month there was an auction of items from Academy Award winning film, “Everything, Everywhere All at Once.” This upcoming event though will be of special note to many as it contains the largest known collection of wands from the “Harry Potter” film series. Among several other things. Among the wands in the collection is the Elder Wand from “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” Sirius Black’s (Gary Oldman) wand from “Prisoner of Azkaban,” Remus Lupin’s (David Thewlis) wand, and Harry’s (Daniel Radcliffe) wand…

Dungeons & Dragons has had an interesting history in terms of its reputation and portrayal in media. Often considered to be the bastion of nerds, its also been accused of leading children to evil thanks to various religious groups (*cough* Satantic Panic *cough*). Rare is the time where D&D is showcased as exactly what it is; an in-depth game that encourages storytelling, creative thinking, cooperation, math, and imagination that can sometimes take weeks if not years. All of these things are very important, especially to developing minds. One of the people who recently discovered this is Chris Pine, and he’d…

If you were to list things that have been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons, “crypto” would have to be near the top of that list. Whether it’s because of the legal matters surrounding FTX, how crypto investments tie into the state of the economy, or how the NFT market pushing its way into children’s television programming, it’s a massively complex world that major companies are eager to get people involved in. To that end, a number of celebrities have been involved in the marketing of crypto currency and due to the nature of said involvement, the…

The ever famous prison break. If there is one scenario that has been omnipresent in art and real life, its escaping from incarceration. There’s something exhilarating and dangerous about the set-up. An inmate or group of them manage to break out from under watch and guard to become fugitives from justice! What manner of adventures could they go on, what exotic locations could they wind up at? They could try to cross an international border or the threshold of the uh, the International House of Pancakes…? As absurdly ridiculous as it may seem, an IHOP in Hampton VA, briefly became…