Danielle Ryan
School
Georgia Gwinnett College
Expertise
The Evil Dead Franchise, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Extreme Horror Cinema
- Danielle started her journey as a published writer on CHUD.com, reviewing straight-to-DVD horror movies before starting her first column, examining controversial cinema and our reactions to it.
- She loves doing interviews and having in-depth conversations with creatives about their work. Career highlights include chatting with Matt Damon and Pedro Pascal backstage at Madison Square Garden and showing Charlie Day her fan art of Denim Chicken.
- One day, Danielle wants to direct a feature film, but so far, she has only directed and edited a short. She was also an assistant director on an independent feature film.
Experience
Danielle is an experienced writer with bylines at The Washington Post, Fandom, Bustle, CNN, Paste Magazine, and more. She has written in a variety of fields, including local crime, global public health, and the entertainment industry. A piece she wrote about youth violence programs in American schools was presented before the United Nations. Danielle is passionate about shocking entertainment, mental health discussions, and practical gore effects.
Education
Danielle has a Bachelor's of English with a concentration in writing and rhetoric.
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Stories By Danielle Ryan
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Even The Boys actor Antony Starr was caught off-guard by the strangest Homelander moment in season 4.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer's countless nods to Star Wars were the result of a very geeky writers' room.
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Rebecca Romijn knows a thing or two about fandoms, but even the X-Men and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds star finds Marvel fans intimidating.
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/Film is on the ground at D23 and we saw the first look at Daredevil: Born Again, which is very obviously inspired by a 1990s crime movie classic.
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The Umbrella Academy has become a major hit for Netflix. However, one of its stars have valid reason to worry it would fall on its face.
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Here's how a revealing montage from The Boys season 4 ended up happening.
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Bruce Willis was game for most of 12 Monkeys, save for, amusingly, one of the sci-fi classic's least bizarre scenes.
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If you could turn back time, would you cast Cher as the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact? The movie's producers certainly considered it.
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Kurt Russell doesn't think Tombstone is the best Western ever made, but he does think it has one specific thing going for it.
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Stephen King, the master of horror, recently watched a fantastic and brutal Kurt Russell Western for the first time and raved about it on social media.
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Hannibal is one of a kind. Here's how we ranked every season of Bryan Fuller's sumptuous, indulgent TV series.
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As Deadpool & Wolverine arrives in theaters (and in the MCU) the first Deadpool movie still reigns supreme on Rotten Tomatoes - but it's a close race.
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Marvel Studios' Fantastic Four movie has received a new title, and you can expect to see the titular heroes pop up in the next two Avengers movies as well.
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Kurt Russell's hockey drama Miracle is pretty faithful to the real-life events that inspired it, with some exceptions.
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Karl Urban is always great on The Boys, but the season 4 finale saw him take his game to the next level.
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Charles Bronson was notoriously challenging to work with, but a young Kurt Russell managed to get through to him.
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House of the Dragon season 2 has brought yet another character back to life through Daemon's Harrenhal-haunted nightmares.
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Humphrey Bogart starred in many a Hollywood classic. His most famous movie, however, has a nearly perfect Rotten Tomatoes score.
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Marvel's Iron Man 2 originally had Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) puking into a custom toilet as part of a darker story.
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Robert Downey Jr.'s suggestion for the post-credits scene in The Avengers helped skyrocket sales of shawarma.
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House of the Dragon season 2 brings back the use of moon tea to abort unwanted pregnancies. It's a herbal remedy with real-life roots.
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Dune: Part Two doesn't give Florence Pugh much to do, but that will change in Denis Villeneuve's Dune Messiah adaptation.
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The Bones episode 'A Boy in a Tree' features a jump-scare that went disastrously, head-rollingly wrong at first.
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A CBS exec gave Gilligan's Island the greenlight, but he wasn't exactly happy about it.
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The Boys fans know Antony Starr as the wicked Homelander, but Banshee fans knew him first as the antihero Lucas Hood.
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House of the Dragon season 2, episode 3 hints at the darkness that awaits Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) in an unsettling dream sequence.
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The Bear season 3 has a real-life chefs and restaurateurs playing themselves. Here's who they are.