Author: Heath Andrews

Heath Andrews has been a student of pop culture ever since he found himself to be the only student in 3rd grade who regularly watched "Get Smart" on Nick-At-Nite. Ever since then he's been engrossed in way too much media with a growing collection of music, books, comics, TV on DVD box sets, and a video game collection that could rival a brick and mortar store. Prior to writing for Nerdbot he's written for Review You, MyAnimeList, and various advertising companies. Since 2016 he's run his own YouTube channel under the moniker of The Critical Android where he livestreams video games and uploads podcasts about pop culture and Frasier.

First thing first, if you haven’t watched “Dexter” yet but plan to in anticipation of its upcoming revival, this entire article is going to be full of spoilers. So with that being said, let’s talk about this little piece of news that will certainly make for a memorable little call back to Season 4. Dexter’s arguably greatest nemesis, and one of the series’ most memorable characters, the Trinity Killer, is coming back. Arthur Mitchell, the actual name of the aforementioned Trinity Killer, was played to perfection by screen and stage legend, John Lithgow during the momentous fourth season of “Dexter.”…

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You ever watch that episode of “The X-Files” from the first season called “Ice?” You know, the one that was kind of like, “The Thing” with the extraterrestrial worm taking over people in an ice covered Alaskan geological station? Now we’re not saying that the following news item could be a per-cursor to that, but the whole thing reads a lot differently if you keep those events in mind. So, yeah, some Russian researchers dug up a couple frozen organisms from the Siberian permafrost and brought them back to life and now they’re even capable of multiplying. Current Biology published…

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While it wasn’t exactly a full-on crossover event, it was certainly a meeting of epic proportions when His Holiness Pope Francis met with Spider-Man. In fairness, it wasn’t the ACTUAL Spider-Man. It was actually an incredibly charitable person who dresses up as the web crawler to visit sick children. It was the actual Pope though, which still makes this meeting its own kind of awesome. A quick look through the Instagram account of Mattia Villardita will show you a number of heartwarming photos from across the last two years of him dressed up as the Wall-Crawler and being hugged by…

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It was 25 years ago today in Japan that Nintendo released their follow-up to the amazingly successful Super Famicom aka Super Nintendo. It would prove to be an era of highs and lows for the company as the console would play host to some of the most fondly remembered and influential games of all time, while also failing to adapt to current technological trends. The N64 would bring memorable games and 4 player multiplayer into the homes of millions, but its shortcomings would also give rise to millions of PlayStations coming into people’s homes as well. Today we look back…

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The next “Transformers” movie will be the 7th in the live-action franchise and we officially have a name for it. While a title may not seem like interesting news, in this case it has some significant impact on what fans should expect, as it ties into a beloved “Transformers” property that has never had the big screen treatment. Get ready to “maximize” as we prepare for “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.” The “Transformers” film franchise is a divisive one to say the least. Despite terrible critical reviews that just kept getting worse from film to film, the money kept coming…

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It’s a story that seems weirdly funny and odd when you first hear about it but gets decidedly more terrifying the more you think about the implications of it. Over the weekend of June 12th in the city of Lahore, police officers allegedly misused their authority to detain 19 staff members of a local chain restaurant. The reason? Because the staff refused to give the officers free food. While it sounds like something ridiculously absurd, it becomes decidedly less comical when you realized that the staff was held by police for seven hours, and it apparently was not the first…

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Leave it to big business to find a way to monetize the living daylights out of anything and everything, for better or worse. While there’s a lot to debate about the fundamentals of non-fungible tokens, the blockchain, and the environmental repercussions of it all, there’s no denying that NFT’s have wrenched their way into nearly every facet of media and entertainment. Seeing the potential in this, Fox Entertainment is working with their animation studio Bento Box Entertainment, to open up Blockchain Creative Labs via a $100 million investment. As the realm of NFT’s have been expanding, various companies have been…

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