Tatiana Santos

Tatiana Santos

Contributing Writer

Was online: August 30 at 7:57 am Last date of publication: August 30, 2026 8:41 am Number of publications: 348
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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 does Sybylla end up with in My Brilliant Career (2026)?
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Who does Sybylla end up with in My Brilliant Career (2026)?
Netflix's My Brilliant Career hands Sybylla Melvyn two suitors, one scandalous poem, and a finale that has half the internet arguing in the comments. Here's a full breakdown of where her heart — and her very stubborn ambition — finally land by the end of the six-episode season.
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Your crispy brown lawn isn't dead — but what you do in the next few weeks decides it: 4 jobs, in the right order
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Your crispy brown lawn isn't dead — but what you do in the next few weeks decides it: 4 jobs, in the right order
Let's address the crime scene outside your window. The lawn is the color of a digestive biscuit. It crunches. Somewhere, a neighbor is judging.
The US minimum wage buys less than half of Germany's — and even Poland's is worth more: the world map of real pay
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
The US minimum wage buys less than half of Germany's — and even Poland's is worth more: the world map of real pay
America: richest large economy on Earth, home of the ten-figure IPO, and — per fresh [International Labour Organization data](https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/?cat_mode=subject) adjusted for what money actually buys — the owner of a minimum wage that ranks 25th out of 130 countries.
The Biggest Box Office Bomb Every Year Since 1990
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
The Biggest Box Office Bomb Every Year Since 1990
There is no schadenfreude quite like box office schadenfreude. A studio spends the GDP of a small island nation on a movie, executives high-five over tracking numbers, and then opening weekend arrives and the phrase "soft debut" starts doing a lot of heavy lifting in the trades.
What are the Westies known for in New York? Even the new series had to invent its bosses' names
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
What are the Westies known for in New York? Even the new series had to invent its bosses' names
Before MGM+ turned them into prestige television, the real Westies built one of the nastiest reputations in New York crime history — while being wildly outnumbered by the Italian Mafia. Here's what the Hell's Kitchen crew was actually known for, and what the show quietly changed on the way to your screen.
Bruno Mars just set the worst debut of his career: his duet with Karol G opened second-to-last on the chart
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Bruno Mars just set the worst debut of his career: his duet with Karol G opened second-to-last on the chart
Bruno Mars does not do flops. The man has ten Hot 100 No. 1s, a duet with Lady Gaga that ruled for five weeks, and a general aura of being chart-proof.
American teens average 4.8 hours a day on social media — Instagram is about to cut them off long before that: the new rules of the $17 billion deal
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
American teens average 4.8 hours a day on social media — Instagram is about to cut them off long before that: the new rules of the $17 billion deal
Nearly five hours a day. That's the average teen's social media diet — a part-time job's worth of Reels, minus the paycheck.
She gave the same advice to everyone who asked, for 50 years: the line Dolly Parton lived by
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
She gave the same advice to everyone who asked, for 50 years: the line Dolly Parton lived by
Ask Dolly Parton for life advice — and everyone does, constantly, for decades — and you will get the same answer she's been handing out since the wigs were smaller.
What year does The Westies take place in? The real gang never even used that name
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
What year does The Westies take place in? The real gang never even used that name
MGM+'s The Westies drops viewers into a very specific slice of New York history — one that explains everything from the Javits Center storyline to the uneasy peace with the Mafia. Here's when the J.K. Simmons crime drama is set, and the strange truth about where the gang's name actually came from.
Ridley Scott's new movie opens this Friday — critics just handed it a score from the bottom 10 of his entire career
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Ridley Scott's new movie opens this Friday — critics just handed it a score from the bottom 10 of his entire career
Ridley Scott is 88 years old, releases movies at a pace that should be studied by cardiologists, and remains constitutionally incapable of taking a year off.