Have we all recovered from Comic Con’s teaser trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay? No? Well prepare to weep inconsolably for another month because the evil geniuses at Lionsgate have graced us with six posters of the lovable rebels (pictured below) that could easily break every bone in our bodies. […]
J.K. Rowling Needs to Write More Harry Potter-Related Stories
In early July, J.K. Rowling published a short story to Pottermore. It was written from the perspective of journalist Rita Skeeter, chronicling Harry Potter and friends at the Quidditch World Cup. It was brief, it raised more questions than it answered, but ultimately, the reaction of the Harry Potter fandom […]
Supernatural: Season 10 and the Road So Far
I’m just going to say this now: Spoiler. Alert. Only read this post if you are 1)100% caught up on Supernatural or 2) Don’t care about reading spoilers. You’ve been warned… We’ve been through a lot with the Winchesters. We’ve been following Sam and Dean around the country since 2005, and […]
The Best Moments of "Sharknado 2: The Second One"
“Sharknado 2: The Second One” premiered on SyFy on July 3oth and literally nothing matters beyond that. Sharknado has become such a large part of our culture that the second one had to be bigger and more ridiculous than the first- and while the stakes don’t seem as high as the first, […]
Going to Fandom Summer Camp at Play On Con
I never went to camp. Well, I went to music theater camp for years as a kid, but that was in an air conditioned theater and I was out by 4 p.m. every day. The whole go out into the woods for summer camp with other kids was not a […]
I Survived DashCon 2014 and All I Got Was An Extra Hour In The Ball Pit
Yes. The rumors are true. I went to DashCon. In fact, out of the four cons I was an official media person at this spring (and the other two I wrote about after attending anyway), DashCon was one of the earliest confirmations I got, second only to Katie Mae of […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Unity
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4e-qJdEAXo&w=640&h=360] Do you hear that sound? That’s the distant screams of Hunger Games fans exploding with excitement. Screams of “JOHANNA! NO!”, “THE MOCKINGJAY LIVES!”, and just plain screaming. The evil masterminds over at Lionsgate have just released the newest ‘Propo’ video straight from the Capitol called ‘Unity’, and my […]
In its 10th year, MomoCon expands into something more
It’s weird to think that there was ever a time in Atlanta that MomoCon didn’t exist. In ten short years, the con has grown to a little free convention put on by Georgia Tech’s anime club to a full blown animation and gaming con that attracts people from around country. […]
Amazing First Look at Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
The good people over at Marvel have announced today that they will be showing 17 minutes of exclusive Guardians of the Galaxy footage in select IMAX theatres around North America on July 7th. The press release that we here at Nerdophiles received in the early hours of this morning […]
Canceling the Apocalypse with Shatterdome Atlanta
(EDIT: I was informed after the publication of this article that there were actually 125 people in attendance. All apologies for my original lowball estimation. The article has been changed to reflect this information.) A one day con for a movie less than a year old that made less money […]
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