Author: Mary Anne Butler

Mary Anne Butler (Mab) got her start in album reviews and live concert coverage for a nationally published (print) music magazine as a teenager. She eventually transitioned to online media, writing for such sites as UGO/IGN, ComicsOnline, Geek Magazine, Ace of Geeks, Aggressive Comix (Editor-in-Chief), Bleeding Cool (News Editor), Nerdbot (as Editor-In-Chief), and now [Bad]Influencers, where she is Editor-in-Chief. Over the past 15 years, she’s built a well-known reputation at conventions across the globe as a cosplayer (occasionally), photographer (constantly), panelist and moderator (mostly), and reporter (always). Interviews, reviews, observations, breaking news, and objective reporting are the name of the game for the founder of Harkonnen Knife Fight, a Dune-themed band. She also produces award-winning immersive events, including Wasteland Weekend and Neotropolis.

It was September 22nd 2004, a Wednesday night, when the world was first introduced to the plane crash on the beach.  ABC’s LOST from J.J. Abrams has become one of the most written about series of the modern television era.  It has garnered some of the highest critical acclaim for a network series ever recorded, and some […]

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In an unlikely choice, it would appear that former Swingers and Wedding Crashers frontman Vince Vaughn is the long awaited second leading man for season two of HBO’s hit series True Detective. Vaughn joins Colin Farrell in the second season of the award winning series, taking over the leading roles vacated by Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. Deadline […]

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From the guys that brought you such amazingly well thought out productions such as Sharknado, Sharknado 2, everything on this list, and Big Ass Spiders…..(if that doesn’t get your little B movie heart pumping like an Optic Nerve build, you might want to read something else) SyFy will bring us LAVALANTULA! ….which is pretty much exactly what you think […]

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Earlier today on the official youtube channel for upcoming film Stretch from Joe Carnahan this video was shared.  We have main character Stretch (Patrick Wilson), getting verbally bashed by David Hasselhoff. Reminding you again, this is NSFW:  

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If you, like me, are a devoted disciple of Batman: The Animated Series, then I have some really good news.  Fox’s new series Gotham holds much of the darkly stylized funny pages awesome along with good casting choices and enough Law & Order procedural drama to possibly hold the Network audience’s attention. I will say that going […]

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After much debate and fancasting, it looks like Colin Farrell will be joining the cast of HBO’s award winning series True Detective for it’s sophomore season. Farrell told Irish newspaper Sunday World:  “I know it will be eight episodes and take around four or five months to shoot.  I know very little about it, but we’re […]

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This is one of the big three episodes we’ve been waiting for in the first season of Starz network’s Outlander.  Let me first say this show remains one of the few to have the least amount of cinematic deviations from the source material, in this case the award winning best selling “romance” series by Diana Gabaldon. […]

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