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
Team Startefacts

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

Ohio eighth-grader turned the school 3D printer into a 150-sale operation — and not one cent went into his own pocket
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Ohio eighth-grader turned the school 3D printer into a 150-sale operation — and not one cent went into his own pocket
Somewhere in Granville, Ohio, there is a 13-year-old with better business fundamentals than half of LinkedIn.
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Is The Rookie cancelled or renewed? ABC's season 9 call is in — and it came with a perk almost no other show got this year
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Is The Rookie cancelled or renewed? ABC's season 9 call is in — and it came with a perk almost no other show got this year
Exhale, Nolan-heads: The Rookie is renewed. Season 9 is happening, ABC made the call while season 8 was still mid-run, and the show will be back in January 2027.
Mom did the math on her son's $3 school lunches — and went after the state
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Mom did the math on her son's $3 school lunches — and went after the state
Kathryn Vaughn has spent 20 years teaching elementary school in rural west Tennessee. She's the local president of her teaching association and has the kind of résumé — Distinguished Educator, Susan B. Anthony Award — that suggests she does not, as a rule, miss details.
Who plays Dumbledore in HBO's Harry Potter? The casting, and the actor's own words on why saying yes wasn't easy
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Who plays Dumbledore in HBO's Harry Potter? The casting, and the actor's own words on why saying yes wasn't easy
The half-moon spectacles have been handed down, and they landed on John Lithgow — six-time Emmy winner, Conclave cardinal, and now the third man to run Hogwarts on screen after Richard Harris and Michael Gambon.
Which true story is By Any Means based on? Greg Scarpa's Mississippi episode circulated as mob lore for years before Paramount filmed it
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Which true story is By Any Means based on? Greg Scarpa's Mississippi episode circulated as mob lore for years before Paramount filmed it
Some true stories sound fake on purpose. "The FBI flew a Mafia hitman to Mississippi to terrorize the Klan" is one of them — a tale that lived for decades in the gray zone between mob legend and declassified fact before Paramount finally put Mark Wahlberg in facial prosthetics and called it By Any Means.
House of the Dragon season 3 ratings: how far the streaming numbers dropped, and what that means for season 4
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
House of the Dragon season 3 ratings: how far the streaming numbers dropped, and what that means for season 4
The dragons came back, the Battle of the Gullet melted my television, the critics did backflips — and the audience numbers still came in with a small but unmistakable shrug.
Spider-Noir cancelled after one season: Nicolas Cage's reaction, and the reasons behind Prime Video's call
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Spider-Noir cancelled after one season: Nicolas Cage's reaction, and the reasons behind Prime Video's call
Streaming has done a lot of unhinged things to me personally, but cancelling a 92%-rated Marvel show starring Nicolas Cage days before it swept five Emmys is a new personal record for the industry.
Gary Oldman claims James Bond has been cast and backs Jack Lowden — the second insider to say that name in a month
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Gary Oldman claims James Bond has been cast and backs Jack Lowden — the second insider to say that name in a month
Somewhere in a locked room at Amazon MGM, an executive just spat out their coffee, because Gary Oldman — Oscar winner, national treasure, man with zero official connection to the Bond franchise — went on Canadian morning television and casually announced that the next 007 has already been chosen.
16 years after the finale, Netflix confirmed The Inbetweeners 3 with the full lead cast — but two fan-favorite names are nowhere in the announcement
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
16 years after the finale, Netflix confirmed The Inbetweeners 3 with the full lead cast — but two fan-favorite names are nowhere in the announcement
Briefcase w****r is back. I need you to sit with that for a second, because I certainly had to.
A Private Life ending explained: who is the killer?
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
A Private Life ending explained: who is the killer?
You come to a French murder mystery for an answer. Rebecca Zlotowski hands you Jodie Foster chain-smoking in flawless French and says: what if the answer is a mirror?