Tatiana Santos

Tatiana Santos

Contributing Writer

Was online: August 30 at 9:07 am Last date of publication: August 30, 2026 9:51 am Number of publications: 349
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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 Barry in The Oval? The search for Callie took him somewhere the White House couldn't follow
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Who killed Barry in The Oval? The search for Callie took him somewhere the White House couldn't follow
Who killed Barry in The Oval? Everything about Barry Hallsen's fate on Tyler Perry's BET drama — the suspects, the body mix-ups, and where the mystery finally landed.
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Readers are already grilling this list of 7 best magic systems: Harry Potter made it with 1 book, 'Rivers of London' didn't at all
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Readers are already grilling this list of 7 best magic systems: Harry Potter made it with 1 book, 'Rivers of London' didn't at all
Collider's list of the 7 best magic systems in low fantasy books, from Skulduggery Pleasant and The Dresden Files to Babel and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and the titles readers say it left out, including Rivers of London.
"I did not want him to leave": Mariska Hargitay revisits Christopher Meloni's SVU exit — and what it forced her to do
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
"I did not want him to leave": Mariska Hargitay revisits Christopher Meloni's SVU exit — and what it forced her to do
Fifteen years after Christopher Meloni walked away from Law & Order: SVU over a contract dispute, his former co-star has given the most direct account yet of what happened on her side of it — and it's less about the negotiation than about the aftermath.
Prince Harry sued the Daily Mail for snooping and ended up paying it: $13 million from him, Elton John and 5 others
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Prince Harry sued the Daily Mail for snooping and ended up paying it: $13 million from him, Elton John and 5 others
Prince Harry, Elton John, Liz Hurley, Sadie Frost and three others were ordered to pay Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers an initial £9.54m ($13m) in legal costs after losing their UK privacy case. Key details and what comes next.
My Brilliant Career holds Netflix's rare 100% from critics — so why are audience reviews so mixed?
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
My Brilliant Career holds Netflix's rare 100% from critics — so why are audience reviews so mixed?
Netflix's six-episode Australian period drama landed on August 13, 2026 with a Tomatometer that almost never survives contact with a real audience. It's still there. The Popcornmeter is a different story.
Nobody wanted him in his village — now he hatches dragons and the emperor adores him: 'Necromancer Isekai' anime is set for 2027
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Nobody wanted him in his village — now he hatches dragons and the emperor adores him: 'Necromancer Isekai' anime is set for 2027
Necromancer Isekai: How I Went from Abandoned Villager to the Emperor's Favorite anime gets a 2027 release date and new key visual. Staff, voice cast, plot, light novel and manga details.
Outer Banks prequel: everything we know about Kildare, the Netflix project that isn't officially a show yet
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Outer Banks prequel: everything we know about Kildare, the Netflix project that isn't officially a show yet
Josh Pate is writing a script. Netflix declined to comment. Everything else circulating about the Outer Banks prequel currently lives in the gap between those two facts.
She loved Guns N' Roses since first grade, became a snake scientist — and named her new species after Slash
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
She loved Guns N' Roses since first grade, became a snake scientist — and named her new species after Slash
Lielaphis slashi, a new nonvenomous groundsnake species from New Guinea, has been named after Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash by Field Museum herpetologist Sara Ruane. Details on the discovery and the Zootaxa study.
Blade Runner is free on YouTube — but not the one you saw in the '80s: it's the cut Ridley Scott fought 25 years for
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Blade Runner is free on YouTube — but not the one you saw in the '80s: it's the cut Ridley Scott fought 25 years for
Blade Runner: The Final Cut is streaming free on YouTube. How Ridley Scott's 2007 version differs from the 1982 theatrical and 1992 Director's Cut, and why it's the one to watch.
Steven Yeun returns to TV in Netflix's Pagans — what to know about the series that sparked a studio bidding war
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Steven Yeun returns to TV in Netflix's Pagans — what to know about the series that sparked a studio bidding war
A spec script so tightly guarded that bidders could read it on a locked app for one day only. Somewhere between 15 and 18 studios, platforms, and producers went after it anyway.