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.

Disney Infinity Gets Avengery!!

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An announcement from Disney-owned Marvel today is GOOD NEWS for anyone who plays the Infinity system.  The Avengers will be making an appearance! The 27-second clip, named “Get Ready to Assemble,” shows Captain America’s shield flying through the world of Disney Infinity, zooming past characters like Dash fromThe Incredibles, Sully from Monsters, Inc. and Captain Jack Sparrow from […]

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Pokemon NXT Game

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  Now, I’ve been looking for links to direct you guys to pre beta testing, and all of them are broken.  We do however have a short vid that shows what game play is supposed to look like.

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Battlestar Galactica Movie News

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“This announcement has happened before, and it will undoubtedly happen again.” According to Variety, Transcendence writer Jack Paglen has signed on to write the screenplay for a full length feature film from Universal in the vein of Battlestar Galactica.  That’s right, finally some more news on the front of the Science Fiction series that has known life as four […]

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Chewbacca And Star Wars VII

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Today the Hollywood Reporter ran a story stating that our beloved warrior from Kashyyyk played by gentle giant Peter Mayhew had been added to the cast of the upcoming JJ Abram’s Star Wars: Episode VII which started filming earlier this month. There has yet to be an official announcement from either Lucasfilm or Disney.

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Game of Thrones s4e1 Review

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After months of waiting, HBO’s Game Of Thrones returned to Westeros tonight.  Gallery of stills from the episode are in the gallery below.  (Safe review if you haven’t read the books) Within the light of a forge, we get a glimpse of Ice (the former greatsword of Ned Stark) for the first time since Ned’s beheading. […]

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Da Vinci’s Demons s2e3 “Voyage of the Damned”

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When we last visited our historical Florentines, the Pazzi-Papal storm of riots had been quelled, Lorenzo il Magnifico returned to his piazza and wife, traitors hung from the gallows (which is an issue for me because historically, the Pazzi traitor Francesco and the Archbishop were thrown over the wall of the Bargello in a rather […]

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Gwendoline Christie Joins “Mockingjay”

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Brienne of Tarth actress Gwendoline Christie from HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones has just been brought on to replace Lily Rabe in the upcoming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and Part 2. In the film, Christie will be playing Commander Lyme, a military leader out of District 2 and former Hunger Games victor who joins Katniss (Jennifer […]

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Jackass and Monk Join TMNT

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The voice talents of both Johnny Knoxville and Tony Shalhoub have been added to the cast of Michael Bay’s upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  Knoxville will voice Leonardo while Shalhoub will be providing the voice of Master Splinter. The physical characters will be performed by Pete Ploszek and Danny Woodburn, respectively. Early synopsis for the film […]

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