Author: Heath Andrews

Of all the horror franchises that have been brought back over the last decade or so, “Evil Dead” is one that has been surprising to us both in its quality and its odd release pattern. When 2013’s reboot did wonderful numbers at the box office, we didn’t think we’d end up having to wait 10 years for another sequel. Sure enough, we did, and it brought us the also fantastic, “Evil Dead Rise.” We won’t have to wait another decade though for another installment, since the next one is hitting in the summer of 2026. While we don’t know the…

Over the last several months and couple of years, Marvel Studios gifted us some great “ambiance” videos. Four years ago, they uploaded a video that was effectively a still image of Asgard with the sounds of water and rainbows and occasional characters popping in to laugh or cheer. And this went on for 10 hours. Would you have to be obscenely bored to watch all of this in a serious fashion? Absolutely, but as ambiance you could do much worse. Or you could do much better with this bit of magnificence. Basically, if you like the sound of rain but…

Get ready to go back into the vault! Or, back into getting out of the vault and into the wasteland! That’s right, one of the biggest surprises in terms of quality video game adaptations was 2024’s “Fallout” on Amazon Prime Video. Even though these adaptations have become considerably better over the years, there’s still an element of “hit or miss” to them whenever they pop up. We weren’t entirely sure what to expect with a series based on the post-apocalyptic, irradiated world of “Fallout” was announced, but once we saw it, we loved it. We are happy to report the…

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has had a very rough series of ups and downs over the past few years. Phase Five brought along successful sequels in the forms of “Deadpool & Wolverine” and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” but everything else has suffered in comparison to the heights of Phase Three. Even “Captain America: Brave New World” is barely scratching its way to profitability. “Thunderbolts*” on the other hand looks like it could end up doing pretty well for itself. Its director, Jake Schreier, may be on his way to directing an “X-Men” film for Marvel Studios. When the…

Have you ever been to a Panda Express and thought to yourself, “What this place needs is karaoke?” No, of course you haven’t thought of that. That’s something no human being should rightly have the mental fortitude to think about. But we live in strange, dark times, and to either add to or alleviate that darkness, Panda Express will be bringing karaoke to four of its restaurants. Forgive us, it’s not karaoke, it’s “Pandaoke.” Seriously though, Panda Express is promoting Pandaoke in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month throughout May. As part of the festivities, four restaurants…

In November of 2023, news hit the Richard Bachman novel “The Long Walk” would be adapted into a feature film by Francis Lawrence. Richard Bachman is a pseudonym used by Stephen King to publish other novels after his career took off. Lawrence, meanwhile, has a lot of experience with turning books into films, given he’s the man behind the camera for most of “The Hunger Games” movie franchise. Now, we’re getting to see the marriage of story and visuals come to life as “The Long Walk” gets its first trailer. The trailer drops us into the middle of a group…

You’re about to hear a lot more of The Pointer Sisters song “Hot Together” in the upcoming days. The team at Rockstar Games just dropped their second trailer for the long awaited “Grand Theft Auto VI” and there’s a lot to unpack with what to expect for the sequel to the second best selling game of all time. It’s actually been about a year and a half since we got our first official glimpse of the game, and we got to see a hell of a lot more of it now, all set to the tune of a Pointer Sisters…

Price increases have been in the news a lot lately. A LOT. For good reason- the global marketplace has changed very quickly thanks to, amongst other things, tariffs. We already discussed how these economic shifts have affected the Switch 2. And even Microsoft has announced price increases for its games and consoles. It’s not just games and electronics that are being impacted either. There’s another segment of geek culture that’s getting hit hard, and Funko had to make a not so very fun announcement about it. On their official Twitter (formerly X) account, Funko posted that some changes were going…

How many times have you watched the Oscars ceremonies only to see a film or person get snubbed? It happens every year, resulting in people wondering, “Do they even watch these movies?” Well, come to find out, they very well may not have. Despite something that might seem like a painfully obviously requirement, members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences were not required to view all the movies before voting on them. Yeah, seriously. The 98th Academy Awards, to be held in 2026, will be the first Academy Award ceremony to require that voters actually watch all…

The news is just hitting hard and fast lately when it comes to video game movies and Sydney Sweeney. And we don’t mean in separate fashions; we literally mean those two topics combined. A few days ago we reported that Sweeney was going to be teaming up with director Michael Bay to produce a movie based on Sega’s “OutRun” racing franchise. That’s… a choice… considering the franchise has been dead for a decade and a half. Now we have reports that Sweeney is going to be executive producer and star of another video game based film, but this time for…