Author: Mary Anne Butler

Mary Anne Butler (Mab) has been part of the fast-paced world of journalism since she was 15, getting her start in album reviews and live concert coverage for a nationally published (print) music magazine. She eventually transitioned to online media, writing for such sites as UGO/IGN, ComicsOnline, Geek Magazine, Ace of Geeks, Aggressive Comix (where she is still Editor-in-Chief), Bleeding Cool (where she was News Editor), and now Nerdbot as Editor-In-Chief. Over the past 10 years, she’s built a 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 with an international presence. Though she be but little, she is fierce.

HBO Max is doing their best to stack their DC Comics offerings, including the long-rumored live-action “Green Lantern” series. An official series order for 10 1-hour episodes was made public today, as well as details of who will be writing and showrunning. Producer Greg Berlanti said: “In what promises to be our biggest DC show ever made, we will be going to space with a Green Lantern television series — but I can’t reveal any more about that just yet.”Seth Grahame-Smith and Marc Guggenheim are co-writing and executive producing, with Grahame-Smith serving as showrunner. Berlanti Productions will produce in association with Warner…

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Remember that amazing “Dune” trailer that hit last month, and the pretty spectacular cover of Pink Floyd’s “Eclipse” from Dark Side of the Moon that Hans Zimmer came up with for it?Today, the decorated composer released the full 1:37 version of the track. We’re still sad we won’t be getting “Dune” til 2021, this is a nice thing to get us through the weekend. Shai Hulud.

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While we’re still basking in the darkness of Spooky Season, there’s another holiday looming on the horizon. One with a mascot who likes to sit and watch every little thing you do before a large man breaks into your house and leaves you gifts.We’re talking of course of Elf on a Shelf (which you already know we don’t care for because HE’S CREEPY). Just this morning, streaming giant Netflix announced that they’ve entered into a partnership with The Lumistella Company, home to the perennial best seller The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition. Netflix will develop engaging original content…

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Okay so….we’re back onto filling our complete 2020 Bingo cards with outlandish and outright scary stuff. This time, it’s venomous hairy caterpillars, and they’ve been sighted in Virginia. Please, don’t touch this thing. The Virginia Department of Forestry wants you to stay away from this particular caterpillar because those lil spines on the back of it are venomous.Diagnostician at the Insect Identification Lab at Virginia Tech University Theresa Dellinger told CNN: “There are little hollow hairs in that fluffy, hairy material. It’s not going to reach out and bite you, but if someone brushes up against that hair, it’ll release…

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No mixed words- I f**king love “The West Wing.” It remains one of my absolute favorite shows on television, and that genius madman Aaron Sorkin KNEW we needed a dose of the best presidential administration ever in this current climate.Enter HBO Max’s incredible “A West Wing Special,” which will reunite the incredible cast of the NBC series, with Sterling K. Brown taking over the part of Leo for the late great John Spencer. Just…tell me this gallery doesn’t give you the warm and fuzzies. Rob Lowe is back as Sam Seaborn, Dulé Hill as Charlie Young, Allison Janney as CJ…

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This just in- sounds like we’ll be getting a pretty big teamup in the upcoming third Tom Holland “Spider-Man” film, with Benedict Cumberbatch apparently on board to appear as the Master of the Mystic Arts- Doctor Strange. This report comes from The Hollywood Reporter.Having Doctor Strange show up would really help explain how the heck Jamie Foxx as Electro could make a comeback, possibly tying in the Multiverse of Madness storyline of “Doctor Strange 2.” Clearly this story is still developing, and we’ll let you know what else we hear about it.

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Netflix just released the new trailer for Volume 2 of the return of “Unsolved Mysteries,” and we are pretty excited to see it!In six new episodes, Unsolved Mysteries profiles more unexplained disappearances, tragic events, and bizarre occurrences. Perhaps one viewer holds the key to solving these cases. Detectives, journalists, and family members offer intriguing theories in this gripping series, from the creators of the original docuseries, Cosgrove/Meurer Productions, and 21 Laps Entertainment, the producers of Stranger Things. You can see the new trailer here.”Unsolved Mysteries Vol 2″ will hit Netflix on October 19th.

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We are so absolutely delighted to share the news that Kate Mulgrew, who played Captain Katheryn Janeway on “Star Trek: Voyager,” is returning to the Roddenberry fold. Announced just this morning during the “Star Trek” panel at New York Comic Con (NYCC), a new casting trailer for the upcoming animated Nickelodeon series “Star Trek: Prodigy” included the coffee-drinking captain. You can see the announcement video here. Mulgrew says: “When [exec producer] Alex Kurtzman called me over a year ago to propose this idea I have to tell you at first I was a little bit uncertain. After all I have…

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David Fincher recreates 1930s Hollywood in this astonishing black and white piece of film, which he wrote and is directing for Netflix. We get the story of Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) as he races to finish the screenplay of Orson Wells’ seminal classic film, “Citizen Kane.” Starring Academy Award Winner Gary Oldman as Mank, Amanda Seyfried as Marion Davis, Lily Collins as Rita Alexander, Arliss Howard as Louis B. Mayer, Tom Pelphrey as Joseph Mankiewicz, Sam Troughton as John Houseman, Ferdinand Kingsley as Irving Thalberg, Tuppence Middleton as Sara Mankiewicz, Tom Burke as Orson Wells, and Charles Dance as…

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