Dany Roth
School
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Expertise
Podcasts, Star Trek, Horror, Pop Music
- Dany produces podcasts, hosts live-stage events at conventions, and appears in scripted video series all dedicated to sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.
- They own (and have committed to memory) a small mom and pop video store's worth of movies.
- One time Dany made a joke and William Shatner laughed at it.
Experience
For well over a decade, Dany has worked in entertainment journalism. Building up from a small, fan site, they cultivated relationships with writers, performers, and creatives in comic books, television and film. They spent most of the last decade at SYFY WIRE where they hosted their flagship podcast Who Won the Week, produced the Every Day podcast series, and both scripted and produced the Amazon audio series Untold Story. Dany joined Looper in 2020 where they write about everything from the importance of horror schlock to the historical origins of The Floor is Lava. Dany's latest podcast project is Song vs Song, where they and their co-host Todd Nathanson argue the merits of two similar songs each episode.
Education
Dany has a Bachelor's Degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in English Literature with a focus on the Jewish American author. This degree is how Dany first learned the subtle art of writing thousands upon thousands of words on a single topic.
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Stories By Dany Roth
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'Night Teeth' is coming to Netflix just in time for the spooky season. See Megan Fox bare her teeth in the latest trailer.
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"Zoolander" is remembered fondly for its absurd '90s comedy style and an insane amount of cameo appearances. It's easy to forget James Marsden popped up, too.
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Mike Flanagan has been working on this story for a long time, and it might be his most personal one yet.
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A new trailer for Sony Pictures' Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage features a hint at the Venom universe expanding to include Spider-man and the MCU.
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Andy Serkis provides some more detail about the timeline of a potential Spider-Man Venom face off on the big screen.
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Will there ever be a Zombieland 3? Woody Harrelson said he'd be game for it, if the creatives at Sony wanted to greenlight another Zombieland project.
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A final trailer for Halloween Kills provides another look at who'll be in the upcoming film, as well as the unmasking that may or may not happen.
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V/H/S is back with a new terrifying anthology set in the year 1994. All the stories are said to be interlinked and are part of a larger story.
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Orlando Bloom, Leslie Odom, Jr., and Cynthia Erivo lead the upcoming sci-fi thriller, "Needle in a Timestack." Here's the film's first trailer.
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"Jeopardy!" has been an unexpected source of drama all summer long. After Mike Richards' firing, we know who will be behind the host podium for 2021.
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Tom Hardy presented an odd answer to a question about if his character Venom will ever meet Spider-Man from the MCU. He didn't seem to know the answer.
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Kit Harrington exploded onto the scene with "Game of Thrones." Before he joined the cast of "Eternals," he had a good reason for not taking a superhero role.
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Freddy Krueger is an undeniable American horror icon, but he isn't immune to film production woes. One of his most popular movies almost never happened.
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Amazon released their first teaser for "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and revealed its release date.
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"Nightbooks" is now available on Netflix, starring Krysten Ritter as a witch. Believe it or not, one of her best roles prepared her for this film.
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James Wan has given us a new batch of nightmares with "Malignant." He sat down to explain the shocking revelation toward the end of his newest film.
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Here's why fans love Doja Cat's Pepsi commercial, which features a song from the musical Grease, that premiered during the 2021 MTV VMAs.
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As Madison's adoptive mother, Jeanne isn't a huge part of Malignant, but you've certainly seen her before.
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If you go back and rewatch "Malignant," you'll discover that the story's twist is very carefully revealed in the opening scene of the film.
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"Malignant" doesn't short us with the scares, but one moment didn't work out as intended. Here's why fans ended up wiping away tears of laughter.
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A major part of what makes the 1973 film Don't Look Now so unforgettable is the shocking death its story is built around.
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One can probably guess why the Russo brothers, Anthony and Joe, might walk away from the MCU at some point in the near future.
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New Warriors got canned in 2018, and the showrunner says it didn't have anything to do with the Disney Fox merger.
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The most mysterious upcoming 'Star Trek' series just dropped a very revealing teaser. Here's what we gleaned from it.
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Chris Hemsworth is set to star as the very larger-than-life wrestler Terry Bollea — aka Hulk Hogan. The biopic writer has thoughts on Hemsworth's role.
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Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass releases in September, but fans have been waiting for it longer than they thought. The title appeared in other Flanagan works.
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'Gateway' villain Frank Grillo shared with Looper in an exclusive interview the big reason he wants back into the MCU as Crossbones.