Danielle Ryan
School
Georgia Gwinnett College
Expertise
The Evil Dead Franchise, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Extreme Horror Cinema
- Danielle 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.
- On top of writing, Danielle also loves doing interviews and having in-depth conversations with creatives about their work. Career highlights so far 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 has only directed and edited a short. She was also 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 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 has a passion for shocking entertainment, discussions about mental health, 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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In It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Charlie has a thing for ghouls. Here's why.
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Jennifer Lawrence refused to lose weight for The Hunger Games, knowing her character, Katniss Everdeen, would be a role model for many young people.
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The It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia gang are always getting into trouble, but co-writer/producer David Hornsby really got himself in deep in one episode.
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Hey, if you don't want to make a bunch of individually crafted and painted styrofoam asteroid chunks, do what the Star Wars crew did and use potatoes!
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Charlie Day stole the idea for Charlie's bizarre final song in 'The Nightman Cometh' from an obscure Sean Penn comedy.
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Cricket has gone through some serious character changes over the years. Here's why.
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There have been lots of successful crossovers in Star Trek history (and some unsuccessful), but the meeting of Picard and Spock is the most memorable.
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Squid Game: The Challenge, the reality competition based on the hit Netflix series, is both a compelling game show and a really bad idea.
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Patrick Stewart started off as a very grumpy father figure to his Star Trek: The Next Generation co-stars before Jonathan Frakes taught him to relax a little.
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It's wild that it's been 21 years since the last of the Austin Powers movies was released, so if you're now catching up, here's the correct order to watch them.
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As director Ridley Scott sees it, both Commodus and Maximus are victims of Marcus Aurelius' failures as a father in Gladiator.
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The Holodeck episodes are some of the best across the entire Star Trek franchise, and one character that Patrick Stewart got to play is a particular highlight.
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When you start looking at the lyrics to the Frasier theme song through a slightly more metaphorical lens, suddenly it all makes sense.
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Many of the spaceships from the Battle of Endor in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi were made of things like tennis shoes and even wads of gum.
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Stop-motion animation can be a delicate process, as the filmmakers behind The Nightmare Before Christmas were reminded on a particularly hot day.
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is bound to have the cast cracking up, and Carlie Day remembers one character breaking moment that made it into the show.
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HBO greenlit House of the Dragon season 2 after the first season's success. Here's what we know about it so far, including the release date and plot.
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Jonathan Frakes and Patrick Stewart are like the sun and moon, silly and serious, and that's what Stewart needed on his first day shooting The Next Generation.
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The Legend of Zelda may finally get the big screen treatment the video game franchise deserves, at the hands of The Maze Runner director Wes Ball.
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The Deep's upsetting, slimy gills caused some issues for The Boys cast member Laz Alonso. It's kind of gross, really.
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It sounds impossible, but could Danny DeVito and Billy Crystal make a sequel to Throw Momma From the Train? We investigate the chances.
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The cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are adept at improvisation, but no one is better at it than Frank, the character played by Danny DeVito.
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The higher-ups on Gen V understandably had some concerns about the dolphin-like supe sex scene from The Boys spinoff's first season.
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The Wailing is a roller coaster ride with enough twists and turns to keep even the most experienced movie watcher guessing, right down to its ending.
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The Twin Flames Universe, a relationship coaching service that seems like both a cult and multi-level marketing scheme, gets the Netflix docuseries treatment.
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Early in their careers, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry competed to take the lead role in Ed, a 1996 sports comedy about a chimp who plays baseball.
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Mae LaBorde was 93 when she started acting, seven years prior to playing Dennis' fake grandmother Gladys on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.