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.

Now here’s the thing.  I’m REALLY frakking excited for this new take on Godzilla.  But this trailer, international trailer number 2, leaves me reminded of that godawful Saturday morning cartoon where the UN had destroyers with a big red button that allowed them to call on Godzilla and his son Godzuki to defend the masses.  Because […]

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We know cameras start rolling for principal photography at Pinewood Studios for the upcoming brand new installment of the Star Wars franchise at the end of the month, this one headed by JJ Abrams with an unnamed title but the number VII.  The interwebs have been ablaze with rumors of the original trio’s involvement in the […]

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When the picture was first released of X-Men: Days of Future Past Quicksilver sitting with a little girl in a pink princess dress, the internet blew up.  Mostly because those of us who know our X-Men lore know that Quicksilver and The Scarlet Witch (Pietro and Wanda Maximoff) the children of Magneto are TWINS.  Twins.  That […]

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The New York Times ran a story back in 1983 detailing the dumping of a metric ton of Atari E.T. The Extra Terrestrial game cartridges in a dump in the middle of New Mexico.  No seriously, it happened.  This has been an ongoing to quest to uncover the truth of the matter, the team finally […]

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A statement from Lucasfilm confirms that the new movies will discard everything other than the movies and “The Clone Wars” and “Rebels” animated series. Here is the official statement from the Star Wars website that ran today: For over 35 years, the Expanded Universe has enriched the Star Wars experience for fans seeking to continue the adventure […]

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We know that Benedict Cumberbatch, Steven Moffat and Martin Freeman as as busy as you can be with Hobbits, starships, Tardis’s and iced over wood chippers, but apparently we may get a special one-off Sherlock episode before season 4 in 2015. “Mark Gatiss may beat me up, but there is an idea for this one-off special […]

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I dunno about you guys, but I usually don’t jump on the “So and So has been cast” train unless it’s been confirmed by the company making the film, the director, the actor himself, or at least three reputable outlets. One of our favorite media sites CinemaBlend ran a story yesterday that reported the role […]

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We’ve been talking a lot lately about the JLA lately, and this post about Flash is not the one you might think.  Only Doctor Hans Zarkhov, formerly at NASA, has provided any explanation, but we know for SURE the reboot/remake of the classic series Flash Gordon is a go.  I say classic because aside from Buck Rodgers […]

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So this film is continuing to grow almost out of proportions, all we need now is the The Flash, Green Lantern, and Aquaman and Batfleck I MEAN BATMAN Vs. Superman will become the JLA. But today, we learned Ray Fisher will be taking on the role of Cyborg.

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Remember when we told you Jem and the Holograms was being turned into a movie?  Well, now we have the cast list! Aubrey Peeples has been cast as the lead, Jem, in the live-action Jem and the Holograms film.  Stefanie Scott (Disney’s A.N.T. Farm) will play Jem’s sister Kimber;  Pretty Little Liars actress Aurora Perrineau will play Shana; and The Fosters‘  Hayley Kiyoko has been cast […]

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