Author: Amy Davis

Hi, I’m Amy. I like long walks in the graveyard, horror movies, comic books, and bringing you the latest in nerd-centric news.

Actress Billie Lourd has issued a statement on why she excluded Carrie Fisher’s siblings from her posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony. While Lourd is notoriously private and only tends to give statements/interviews in relation to upcoming films, she felt the need to open up after being “publicly attacked by them” in the media. Fisher’s siblings Todd, Joely, and Tricia Leigh Fisher were not invited to the ceremony, which takes place on May the 4th, 2023. “Days after my mom died, her brother and her sister chose to process their grief publicly and capitalize on my mother’s death, by doing…

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We’re back with another edition of Urban Legend: Fact or Fiction. In this chapter, we take a deep dive into one of the most pervasive legends we’ve ever covered! So, let’s try to answer the question, can spiders really live in your hair or face? The Story Back in the 1950s beehive hairdos were all the rage. The only issue is these styles take a lot of work to maintain. So many women just resorted to getting their hair done every few months and caking their locks with hairspray in between stylings. As you can imagine, this prevented regular washings. …

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The long-running BBC sci-fi series “Doctor Who” is fast approaching its 60th-anniversary. The show recently aired a cryptic video providing more details about the upcoming episodes. Complete with a callback to a previous season’s theme song. Three episodes will air in November to celebrate the series’ impressive accomplishment. These will see the return of David Tennant, who played the 10th Doctor from 2005 through 2009. He will now play the mysterious 14th Doctor in all new stories. And will also see the return of Catherine Tate’s character Donna Noble and are all written by returning showrunner Russell T Davies. The…

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Writer/showrunner Ryan Murphy has confirmed “Monster’s” second season will focus on Lyle and Erik Menendez. The Menendez brothers were convicted of murdering their parents in 1996. This will be a follow-up to the anthology series’ first season which focused on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” will focus onJosé and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez being shot and killed in their Beverly Hills mansion on August 20th, 1989. Their sons, Lyle and Erik, initially weren’t suspects in the murders, until the police began to look at the brothers’ financial motives. The investigation soon revealed the sons extravagant…

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Collector James Comisar has been gathering TV memorabilia since 1989. As you can imagine, after over 30 years he has amassed quite a collection of television history. Including an outfit Barbara Eden wore on “I Dream of Jeannie,” barware from “Mad Men,” and costumes from “Star Trek.” Originally Comisar planned to create a museum to house these treasures. But unfortunately, that plan never come to fruition. So he will be auctioning off the pieces from his temperature-controlled warehouses, to get them into the hands of fans. “I just decided these pieces should go back to the fans and let them…

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Actor Matthew Lawrence recently opened up on the Brotherly Love podcast about a disturbing experience he had with an Oscar-winning director. He says he was offered a role in a big film, but only if he stripped for the director. He claims his refusal to do so got him fired from his agency at the time, and prevented him from playing the next “Marvel character.” “There’s been many times in my life where I’ve been propositioned to get a huge role,” Lawrence said. “I’ve lost my agency because I went to the hotel room, which I can’t believe they would…

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It looks like the legendary sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” (“SNL”) may be done for season 48. NBC has officially pulled the latest episode, hosted by former cast member Pete Davidson, from airing. This would have been his first time back after Davidson ended his eight year run on “SNL” last season. NBC is pulling this episode and others due to an ongoing strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA). Since the majority of the show’s writers (and cast) are WGA members, “SNL” will not return until they reach an agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and…

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Filmmaker Jason Reitman will be directing a new film for Sony Pictures based on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” Specifically, it focuses on the behind-the-scenes story of the very first episode of the legendary sketch comedy series, which aired in 1975. Reitman will be teaming up once again with his “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” co-writer Gil Kenan for the script. Set on October 11, 1975, the currently untitled film will follow a group of young comedians and writers as they unknowingly make television history. We’ll see all of the magic and chaos leading up to the iconic intro “Live From New York, it’s…

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Rock legends Aerosmith are saying “Peace Out” with a 2023-2024 North American farewell tour, featuring support from The Black Crowes. Formed in 1970, these Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees have topped the charts off an on for over five decades. While this is certainly the end of an era, “It’s not goodbye, it’s PEACE OUT,” the band said in a statement. “Get ready and walk this way, you’re going to get the best show of our lives.”  The pun-fueled rockers also revealed that they would not be joined by their original drummer Joey Kramer. “While Joey Kramer remains…

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Emmy and BAFTA Award-nominated actor and writer Rob Delaney (“Catastrophe”) will be reprising his role as Peter in “Deadpool 3.” The third installment of the Marvel Studios franchise will be directed by Shawn Levy (“Stranger Things”), from a script co-written by Levy, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese, Zeb Wells, and Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds.  While plot details for “Deadpool 3” are still under wraps, the comics, and films follow wise-cracking mercenary Wade Wilson. After a disfiguring scientific experiment, Wilson transforms into the immortal superhero known as Deadpool. Which is essentially the plot of the first film. In “Deadpool 2,” the “Merc…

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