WizardWorld Sacramento: Mab’s Con Diary
You’ll notice (numbers) in various points in the diary entries. These coincide with photos located in the gallery at the veeeeery bottom of this post. Thanks for reading! Check out my other Con Diaries too! Day 1, Friday March 7th:…
TV Review: “True Detective” S1 Post-Mortem
by Kim Filchak, Reporter Warning: This essay is not really a recap, it’s more like a lengthy obsessive rambling, trying to fit everything together in my head about the show True Detective. It hits my sweet spots on both a psycho-sociological…
TV Review: “Cosmos”
by Mary Anne Butler; Editor/Reporter/Photographer “We are made of star stuff.” Something amazing about the world of social media, almost everyone will post or check in or have photos of whatever it is they’re doing. Most often, these are things…
Casting News: Kyle Reese in Terminator Reboot
Variety reports that A Good Day to Die Hard co-star Jai Courtney is stepping into the shoes of Kyle Reese in director Alan Taylor’s new Terminator: Genesis movie. Paramount and Skydance will co-produce the film, which is being called a ‘reboot’. Not that they are…
Review: “Rob The Mob”
by NEW CO’ER Kim F (a professional bibliophile and layabout who who is constantly flabbergasted to find herself living in LA along with six houseplants and one very disgruntled cat.) Full disclosure, this is the first time I have ever done…
Movie Review: “The LEGO Movie” Is No Brick
by Jason Marnocha aka LordJazor, reporter The LEGO Movie, as a film that on the surface is basically a two hour toy commercial (which you’d think we’d have had enough of with Batman & Robin), has almost entirely no business being…
Age of Ultron: Ms. Marvel kinda-sorta-confirmed?
According to this post from Latino Review, looks like Avengers: Age of Ultron is going to have a Carol Danvers appearance, and Katee Sackhoff (Captain Kara Thrace “Starbuck” from the re imagined Battlestar Galactica) might just be the front runner. If…
Review: “Knights Of Badassdom”
by Mary Anne Butler, Editor/Reporter/Photographer THERE BE MONSTERS IN NEED OF PUMMELIN’! There is something special about this movie, and I say that as someone who’s LARPed, done Renaissance Faires, cosplayed, and slayed demons while singing heavy metal. OK DOOM…
Editorial: Bryan Singer on his Man Of Steel
by Mary Anne Butler, Editor/Reporter/Photographer It seems like lately, most of the posts I’m commenting on are about either DC or Marvel. It’s a tough time for DC fans (and studio owned pieces of the various franchises) with controversial casting…
Lex Luthor: 7 Casting Choices
by Mary Anne Butler, Editor/Reporter/Photographer I’m sure you’ve seen by now, Jesse Eisenberg has been named by Warner Brothers as Lex Luthor in Batman vs Superman. That’s right, Eisenberg from The Social Network will be playing the “greatest criminal mind of…
TV Review: BBC’s “Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond”
by Mary Anne Butler Editor/Reporter/Photographer Let me start by saying I’m really glad Dominic Cooper didn’t get the role of Freddie Mercury in the upcoming highly anticipated biopic, because after watching all four hours of Fleming, I can’t see…
TV: Starz Gets Piratical With Black Sails
by Mary Anne Butler, Editor/Reporter/Photographer So it’s Black Sails day! Sure, the pilot has been available for a few days now, but IT’S PREMIERE DAY! It’s a thing. I was lucky and got to see the first episode and…
Aquaman: 6 Casting Choices
by Mary Anne Butler, Editor/Reporter/Photographer A friend of mine posted this link onto my facebook wall today with one word attached, “Thoughts?” Now, I have opinions. SHOCKER, right? If you’ve read any of my other editorials, you’ll know I try…
News: 2014 Oscar Nominations
This morning, the nominations for the 86th Annual Academy Awards were announced. The ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 2nd starting at 7pm (EST). Here are the major categories and the nominees: PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING…
Review: SyFy’s “Helix”
by Mary Anne Butler, Editor/Reporter/Photographer I’ve been saying it since the first appearance of this new show at SDCC 2013, “It’s like X Files and Walking Dead had a baby. A black blooded genetically engineered evil baby. But so…