Author: Heath Andrews

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…

When you’ve appeared in as many games as Mario has, they’re not all going to be great. Purely by law of averages, some games have to be of lesser quality than others. When it comes to official titles for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Mario Bros. 2 seems to get the short end of the stick. This reputation is understandable considering how different the game is from the others on the NES. It’s also a bit unfair to the title, and I want to go into the reasons why. A lot of the criticism thrown at Super Mario Bros. 2…

Happy Mar10 Day! This is the first celebration of Mario since Nintendo brought back the Virtual Boy. The short-lived virtual reality-based console was not around for very long. Because of this, it didn’t produce a lot of Mario games; we only got two of them. That being said, the ones we got are memorable, and we’re going to get the chance to play them again soon! Mario’s Tennis The Nintendo mascot has been no stranger to the world of sports. Dating back to the days of the NES, Mario played golf in NES Open Tournament and took the race track…

If you’re a fan of the horror genre, then the odds are that you’ve seen something by Mike Flanagan. Over the last decade, he has been omnipresent in the field. Flanagan wrote and directed film adaptations of three Stephen King novels, including Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep. He also has an upcoming take on The Exorcist, is writing the DC film Clayface, and has pumped out several horror series, including The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass. Sometimes when you see talent, you have to secure it. That’s exactly what Amazon has done. Flanagan has already been hard at…