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About Denise

Professional nerd. Lover of licorice.

MOAR guests for Baltimore Comic-Con: DeMatteis, Fradon, Giffen, Manley, Snyder III, Tucci!

Con season is definitely amping up; Baltimore Comic-Con is adding still more guests to its impressive roster.  This go-round?  J.M. DeMatteis and Keith Giffen (read Scooby Apocalypse RIGHT NOW), Mike Manley (Darkhawk, The Phantom), John K. Snyder III (Grendel, Suicide … Continue reading

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Baltimore Screening Pass-palooza: Nerve!

Gamers!  This one’s for you; Nerve, a thriller about what can happen if things get out of hand with your online addiction.  Synopsis! Industrious high school senior, Vee Delmonico [Emma Roberts], has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to … Continue reading

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Pottermore welcomes you to the Ilvermorny School!

Any other owl-hopeful American psyched to hear about the Wizarding schools here in the States? Well, our wait is over; J.K. Rowling and Pottermore dropped a video about Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and it’s awesome. In the under … Continue reading

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Pony News: Jayson Thiessen, director of the next MLP film, can’t make BronyCon 5

Heads up for folks hoping to pump Thiessen for pony spoilers!  It’s a bummer, but we’ve got to remember that guests and panelists have Real Lives too. But never fear – there’ll still be plenty of pony fun.  Peep the … Continue reading

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Newest “Bridget Jones’s Baby” trailer has Firth, Dempsey and Emma Thompson!

Always loved Emma Thompson. But her turn as Bridget Jones’s OB/GYN looks like a total hoot.  Ready for the third installment of the Bridget Jones series?  Synopsis! After breaking up with Mark Darcy (Firth), Bridget Jones’s (Zellweger) “happily ever after” … Continue reading

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Baltimore Screening Pass-palooza: The Infiltrator!

Miss Bryan Cranston’s dramatic genius?  Well in The Infiltrator he’s on the other side of the drug war, taking ’em down.  Based on a true story, this one looks good… Synopsis! Based on a true story, Federal agent ROBERT “BOB” … Continue reading

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TrailerWatch: “Star Trek Beyond” brings Elba, Boutella, Rhianna

Whoever came up with this trailer should take a bow.  Lots of action, intriguing glimpses of Idris Elba’s Krall (the Big Bad of the film), Sofia Boutella’s supercool Jaylah (a new ally), and Uhura still being badass. To top it … Continue reading

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Baltimore Screening Pass-palooza: The BFG!

Where Roald Dahl fans at?  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach…now Disney and Spielberg are teaming up to bring another of his books to film: The BFG.  Synopsis! The talents of three of the world’s greatest … Continue reading

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Independence Day: Resurgence is a chip off the alien block

  Nutshell: Second verse, same as the first: ID4R dusts off the same comfortable chestnuts that made its predecessor so popular.  And while ID4R doesn’t seem to suffer from the same tech hiccups – the aliens don’t seem to be … Continue reading

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Off the Shelf: Aliens/Vampirella (hardcover collection)

Story: Humans on Mars!  The first colony of sunlight dwellers make their mark on Mars.  Perhaps too much of a mark.  In digging down into the red soil, they happened upon an underground city that used to be inhabited by … Continue reading

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