Tatiana Santos

Tatiana Santos

Contributing Writer

Was online: October 20 at 11:51 am Last date of publication: October 20, 2026 12:35 pm Number of publications: 696
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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

Stranger Things: Tales From '85 season 2 review — what happens when Hawkins meets its first-ever ghosts
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Stranger Things: Tales From '85 season 2 review — what happens when Hawkins meets its first-ever ghosts
Hawkins, Indiana cannot have one normal holiday. Not Halloween, not Christmas, and — as of season 2 of Netflix's animated spinoff, all eight episodes of which dropped today — definitely not Valentine's Day.
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Why Judge Judy is retiring as Judy Justice ends — her 30th anniversary special airs first
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Why Judge Judy is retiring as Judy Justice ends — her 30th anniversary special airs first
Judith Sheindlin has spent three decades telling grown adults to stop talking, and now she's telling television itself to stop talking. On the literal 30th anniversary of the day Judge Judy first aired — September 16, 1996, for those of us who were home sick from school a lot — she went on Good Morning America and announced she's done.
The Traitors: New Blood premiere tonight — what to expect when 60,000 applicants boil down to 22 strangers in the castle
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
The Traitors: New Blood premiere tonight — what to expect when 60,000 applicants boil down to 22 strangers in the castle
Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, NBC hands Alan Cumming's Scottish castle over to people you have never seen on television before, and I could not be more ready.
Why Kit Harington joined Harry Potter as Lockhart amid backlash, explained
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Why Kit Harington joined Harry Potter as Lockhart amid backlash, explained
Kit Harington knows nothing, except apparently every word of the Harry Potter audiobooks, which he confessed to using as a nightly sleep aid on national television this week.
Reacher season 5 character update: Kathleen Robertson on whether Elspeth returns for Make Me
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Reacher season 5 character update: Kathleen Robertson on whether Elspeth returns for Make Me
Reacher season 4 wrapped this week the way all Reacher seasons wrap: our giant boy wins, buys a fresh toothbrush, and walks off toward the horizon like a Roomba with abs.
Matthew Lillard admits he's ashamed of his Scream 7 return: Melissa Barrera's firing "is really f---ing bullshit"
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Matthew Lillard admits he's ashamed of his Scream 7 return: Melissa Barrera's firing "is really f---ing bullshit"
Matthew Lillard did something at a Scream 30th anniversary screening this week that you almost never see a working actor do: he publicly graded his own homework and gave himself an F.
DWTS season 35 night 2 elimination results: Maura Higgins tops the board — a Traitors reunion did half the work
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
DWTS season 35 night 2 elimination results: Maura Higgins tops the board — a Traitors reunion did half the work
The women of DWTS season 35 finally got their turn Wednesday night, dancing to No. 1 hits from the year they were born, which is a theme designed specifically to make me feel ancient.
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.
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.