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.
Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski separated a while ago: the marriage that started in secret ended the same way
They got engaged publicly, then married so quietly that the news arrived after the fact, and spent nine years keeping the marriage off camera. The end of it was handled the same way: they had already separated when they told anyone, and the telling came from them, not from a publicist.
Is The Rivals of Amziah King based on a novel? The screenplay is credited to "James Montague", a name that belongs to nobody
The Rivals of Amziah King feels like a book. A big, verbose, sprawling American novel with digressions about bee colonies and potluck etiquette, the kind you'd find dog-eared in a lake house.
The Gilded Age returns November 1 and drops the richest man in America into the Russells' world
Three seasons in, the Russells have out-spent, out-schemed and out-married everyone on Fifth Avenue, and season 3 left them sleeping in different houses. HBO has now put a date on the repair job — and season 4 brings in a man with more money than both families combined.
Dancing with the Stars returns tonight, and last season's winning pro is dancing 5 months pregnant
Sixteen couples, two premiere nights, and one thing this ballroom has not had before: the pro who won the last mirrorball is dancing five months pregnant — and she said so before the season started, not halfway through it.
Hell's Kitchen winners: where are they now? All 24, including the ones who never took the job
Twenty-four seasons. Twenty-four chefs who survived Gordon Ramsay screaming into their soul at close range, took the $250,000, and walked out with a shiny head chef job offer.
American Idol is leaving Los Angeles after 24 seasons: California wrote a law last year to stop exactly this, and Idol didn't make the cut
California spent last year writing its first tax credit for unscripted television, partly so that shows like this one would stop leaving. Season 25 of American Idol is being built in Georgia instead, because the show could not use the credit that was written for it.
Romantics Anonymous star Yuri Nakamura has died at 44, and the news was held for two weeks
She played the therapist who tells other people to stop hiding. Yuri Nakamura died on September 1, and the audience that turned Romantics Anonymous into a global Netflix hit found out two weeks later — which turns out to be the shortest secret she ever kept.
Warner buried Coyote vs. Acme for a tax break — it just crossed $82 million in theaters
In November 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery looked at a finished, test-audience-approved Looney Tunes movie and decided it was worth more dead than alive — roughly $30 million more, in tax write-off form.
The Souffleur ending explained: what Lucius finally accepts after the hotel is sold out from under him
There is a specific genre of Willem Dafoe performance I would watch on a loop forever: Dafoe as a man clinging with both hands to something the universe has already decided to take from him.
Is Hanging by a Wire a true story? Where the footage inside the cable car actually came from
Every once in a while a documentary comes along that plays like a disaster thriller some studio exec would reject as "too much." Hanging by a Wire is that documentary.
