Tatiana Santos

Tatiana Santos

Contributing Writer

Was online: September 30 at 8:54 am Last date of publication: September 30, 2026 9:38 am Number of publications: 569
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I'm no Aja Romano, but I try.

Marvel, Supernatural, Star Trek, and everything fandom-related in between. If it's worth reading, watching, or listening to — I'm on it, and telling you about it.

I've been at Startefacts since the actual beginning back in 2022.

One of my early assignments was covering CinemaCon in Las Vegas, where I sat in a dark hall geeking out over Doctor Strange footage and thought: God, this is a dream job for me.

Well, turns out — not THE dream job, per se. Entertainment journalism is hard, harder than ever in 2026, with AI threatening your integrity and your work ethic at every turn. But hey: I still try. I love what I do, and I love writing about the MCU, however shitty their movies have gotten over the last few years. I'm still in my chair in a movie theater when a new Nolan movie comes out, or a Guy Ritchie movie, or frankly any Statham movie.

What I cover: the MCU and superhero cinema, long-running genre TV (Supernatural, Star Trek, and their fandoms), fan culture and how it shapes what gets made, action filmmaking and the directors who take it seriously.

How I work: I watch the thing before I write about it — the whole thing, not the recap. I rewatch scenes when my memory isn't reliable, which is often. I check release dates, credits, production history, and source material against primary sources — press notes, the books, the people who made it — not the top-ranking aggregator. If I got something wrong, I fix it and say so in the piece.

Where else to find me: Twitter/X — tips, corrections, and complaints about my Statham opinions all welcome.

Latest News by Tatiana Santos

Who killed Anais's father in A Remarkable Place to Die? Two men were already in prison for it when episode one began
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Who killed Anais's father in A Remarkable Place to Die? Two men were already in prison for it when episode one began
Let's get one thing straight about Queenstown: the mountains are gorgeous, the lake is gorgeous, and absolutely everyone is lying about something. That's the deal A Remarkable Place to Die offers you in its very first episode, when Detective Anais Mallory rolls back into her hometown wearing the specific facial expression of a woman who does not believe a single word of the official record.
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Where does A Remarkable Place to Die take place? The real New Zealand town it's both set and filmed in
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Where does A Remarkable Place to Die take place? The real New Zealand town it's both set and filmed in
Some shows invent a town, some shows borrow one, and some shows just point a camera at a real place so photogenic it feels like set dressing. A Remarkable Place to Die is firmly in category three.
Resident Evil is heading for $40-50M, and the film to compare it to isn't a Resident Evil movie
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Resident Evil is heading for $40-50M, and the film to compare it to isn't a Resident Evil movie
Resident Evil opens Friday, and Wednesday’s tracking says Sony is about to erase a record that has stood in this franchise since 2010. The number that predicts it, though, isn’t anywhere in the franchise — it belongs to the film Zach Cregger made before this one.
What is a ghost in Ghost in the Shell? The meaning, and the 1967 philosophy book the term was lifted from
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
What is a ghost in Ghost in the Shell? The meaning, and the 1967 philosophy book the term was lifted from
There are people who have watched Ghost in the Shell four times and still couldn't tell you what, precisely, a "ghost" is. I know because I was one of them, nodding along while cyborgs whispered about their ghosts like it was obvious.
Bravo offered RHOSLC's Mary Cosby a year off after her son died. She took three weeks
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Bravo offered RHOSLC's Mary Cosby a year off after her son died. She took three weeks
Mary Cosby went back to work three weeks after burying her only child. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City starts its seventh season tonight, and hours before the premiere she gave her first long account of why she turned down the year off Bravo had offered her.
Four days from the Lioness finale, Paramount+ still hasn't ordered a season 4 of its biggest show
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Four days from the Lioness finale, Paramount+ still hasn't ordered a season 4 of its biggest show
Lioness closes season 3 this Sunday as the most-watched title on Paramount+ anywhere in the world. Its lead spent last week’s episode escaping captivity, and the streamer still hasn’t said whether any of it continues past the finale.
Ke Huy Quan gave up his Chinese name at 18, and his new memoir explains what he was trying to escape
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Ke Huy Quan gave up his Chinese name at 18, and his new memoir explains what he was trying to escape
Ke Huy Quan has spent the last four years being introduced by his full name, deliberately. His memoir, out this week, goes back to the years when he answered to something else entirely — and to the 18-year-old who thought that was the fix.
Where does Best Medicine take place? The fishing village is fictional, but it was modelled on a real one — and shot in a different state altogether
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Where does Best Medicine take place? The fishing village is fictional, but it was modelled on a real one — and shot in a different state altogether
Fox's Best Medicine — the American Doc Martin remake where Josh Charles glowers at lobster traps — is set in the postcard fishing village of Port Wenn, Maine. Before you start planning a foliage-season pilgrimage: you will not find Port Wenn on any map.
Brie Larson meets her dead mother in One Italian Summer: Paramount release date, cast and first plot details
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Brie Larson meets her dead mother in One Italian Summer: Paramount release date, cast and first plot details
Brie Larson has punched aliens, taught chemistry as an act of war, and voiced a space princess for Mario. Her next trick is quieter and, honestly, more of a gut-punch: grieving her mother on the Amalfi Coast — and then running into her at a seaside hotel, alive, tanned, and thirty years old.
Money Heist's Gandia death explained: Nairobi's killer stood exactly one step too close — how he died
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Money Heist's Gandia death explained: Nairobi's killer stood exactly one step too close — how he died
Every villain gets one fatal flaw, and César Gandia's was needing an audience. The Bank of Spain's head of security couldn't just win — he had to stand over you and narrate it.