Kat Black
School
University Of London, Smith College
Expertise
Movies, TV, Comics
- Kat is obsessed with all things pop culture and avidly consumes news, podcasts, and think pieces about the latest entertainment and celebrity news daily.
- She specializes in writing news and features about movies and TV, the entertainment industry, and true crime.
- Kat has eight years of writing experience, including journalism, fiction writing, poetry, and essays. She briefly worked as a freelance reporter in Shanghai, China, and produced digital, broadcast, and print stories about local London news while studying in the UK.
Experience
Kat Black is a freelance journalist with experience writing entertainment news, arts and pop culture analyses, and features for medical journals. She graduated in 2019 with a master's degree in international journalism from City, University of London, and published a book of poetry in 2017. She is also an essayist and fiction writer with publication credits in The Rumpus, Gertrude Press, Cagibi Literary Journal, and others. She is currently based in New York City.
Education
Kat Black spent two years in London, UK, reporting on local news while completing her M.A. in International Journalism from City, University of London. She also has a B.A. in English Literature and Spanish from Smith College.
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Stories By Kat Black
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While the Freeform series Motherland: Fort Salem is based around witchcraft, the show diverts from real forms of witchcraft in a few key ways.
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If you crave top-notch art in your anime, then Crunchyroll's original series "The God of High School" is a must-see
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The character of Officer Gene Clemens from the CW show "In the Dark" is played by actor Matt Murray, who you may recognize from these other projects.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind featured a deleted character who could have completely changed the details of Clementine and Joel's origin story,
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Despite Edens Zero's commitment to lavish world-building, several unresolved plot holes and mysteries about the characters' origins remain after Season 1.
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An established "it girl" by the end of the 1990s, Sarah Michelle Gellar agreed to a bit role in the quintessential 1999 teen makeover flick "She's All That."
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Here are several things from the premiere of Chicago Med that you might have forgotten took place on the episode.
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Stana Katic is a film and television actor, with roles on hits like Castle making her a star. But did you know she appeared on two episodes of NBC's ER?
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While Chicago Fire is focused on the firefighters of Firehouse 51, one actor in the show actually has real experience in the field as a Marine.
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AppleTV's Invasion is a thrilling series that has received high praise, but Firas Nassar almost turned down his starring role. Here's the real reason why.
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Rumor has it Tim Burton recently confirmed that he will be moving forward with "Beetlejuice 2" -- and that it will star two familiar Burton film favorites.
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Patrick Stewart had one condition for returning for "Star Trek: Picard" nearly two decades after saying goodbye to his character on "Star Trek: Nemesis."
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There are tons of mysterious creatures in the Star Wars universe, including the dog-like alien in The Book of Boba Fett Chapter 1. Here's what it really is.
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For Ice-T, the incident highlighted the complex realities of being an ex-rapper who plays a police officer on television.
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A certain Swedish actress played two radically different Bond girls almost a decade apart.
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Mars Attacks! writer Jonathan Gems reveals in a 2021 Inverse oral history why Warner Bros. canceled Tim Burton's Superman movie starring Nicolas Cage.
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Venom director Ruben Fleischer says in a 2018 CinemaBlend interview what his original plan for the opening scene of the Sony Pictures release was meant to be.
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Nocturnal Animals actor Ellie Bamber recalls in a 2016 Harper's Bazaar interview which scene in the Tom Ford-directed movie made her cry and why.
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Blake Lively reveals in a 2015 interview with Allure that she had regrets over playing Serena on Gossip Girl, despite the show launching her A-list career.
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Cagney &. Lacey was a popular crime procedural series that aired on CBS from 1981 to 1988 and starred Tyne Daly. Here are all the cast members who passed away.
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The lowest-grossing Pixar movie released to date is the 2021 animated feature Luca, starring Jacob Tremblay and Jack Dylan Grazer.
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Virgin Rivers fans take to Reddit to discuss who shot Jack Sheridan (Martin Henderson), a cliffhanger from Season 2 that will be answered in Season 4.