Are you wondering what to watch next? Are you confused by the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Or are you looking for your next good read?

Media Medusa’s writers are here to make sure your downtime is as enjoyable as possible. We’re obsessed with pop culture, so we’re watching and reading everything we can , so you don’t have to. We’ve got reviews and commentary on movies, TV shows and books. That way, you can find something quickly and get on with your life.

Since our launch in 2013, we’ve helped over 230,000 pop culture fans decide what to watch or read next. It feels good to know that so many people are living their best life!

Media Medusa and Netflix Help

Media Medusa and Netflix Help

 

Media Medusa and Movie Help

Media Medusa and Movie Help

 

Media Medusa and Amazon Echo Help

Media Medusa and Amazon Echo Help

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Nancy Basile

Nancy Basile, Editor-in-Chief of MediaMedusa.com

Nancy Basile, Editor-in-Chief of MediaMedusa.com

Hi! I’m the owner and editor-in-chief of Media Medusa. I started my career in entertainment as a performer. After I graduated with a B.F.A. in musical theater, I moved to Los Angeles. I spent a few years there working for a casting director. I learned a lot about the entertainment industry by working with professionals in every capacity: actors, writers, directors and producers.

I’ve has been writing professionally about entertainment since way back, like 1999. I wrote for Comic Book Resource, Paste Magazine and About.com (now ThoughtCo).

I launched Media Medusa in 2013 because I noticed people were asking me about what I was watching and what I was reading. When I find something great, I want to share it! I hope you find something great that makes your life a lot more fun too.

Bernd Biege

Bernd Biege

Bernd Biege

Bernd Biege is a writer, journalist, researcher, and general busybody, resident in Ireland, but originally from Germany. He lives in a very rural area, likes to travel, has a variety of interests, cherishes his privacy, yet is always pleased to voice his opinions… thus the Internet was a gift from the gods for him. Equipped with a master’s degree in history and English and German language and literature, plus a diploma in IT, he has worked at a variety of jobs, including emergency medical technician, youth worker, sales, the public sector, technical support, driving a truck, book author, fireman, call centre management, and local newspapers. He also takes in strays…

Visit Bernd’s Ireland Travel website. See all of Bernd Biege’s posts.

Mike Brown

Mike Brown

Mike Brown

Mike Brown lives along the muddy banks of the Ohio River near Pittsburgh with his lovely wife, Kelly, two loud foundling dogs, and an army of cats that, to say the least, are not likely to do his bidding. Mike spends a lot of time watching movies, in front of the TV, or thinking about movies or TV. “Do you think Maynard G. Krebs would like me. Do you think Maynard and Patrick from SpongeBob would be friends?” are subjects oft discussed with his wife*. Mike enjoys most kinds of rock and roll music and has been known to spend many hours holding forth on the genius of Elvis Presley, the guitar stylings of Tony Iommi, or why Sinead O’Conner is a much better singer than anyone working in popular music today (“It’s because she’s crazy. It makes her great!”). His wife and dogs dutifully indulge his opinions, but actually have no idea who Maynard G Krebs is and aren’t interested enough to look him up. * Mike is convinced that Maynard and he would be close friends, even though Mike has a full-time job, hates bongos, berets, and, to the best of his knowledge, has never met an actual beatnik.

Mike Brown is a writer who has self-published novels that are available on Amazon. Visit his author page at Amazon to find out more. See all of Mike Brown’s posts.

Lou Martin

Lou Martin

Lou Martin

Lou Martin is an aging film buff who has become far more interested in television serials and podcasts of late. He lives in the small former mining village of Daisytown, Pennsylvania, in a house that he is doomed to forever be remodeling. He grew up on Stars Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, and became a devotee of Oliver Stone after seeing Platoon. Catching up for lost time, Lou once vowed to watch a movie every day of his life and spent much of the 1990s trying to make good on that promise. Like many, The Phantom Menace left a sour taste in his mouth, and one too many Pulp Fiction knock-offs indicated that both Hollywood and independent film was losing steam. Lou feels that the Fellowship of the Ring was his last truly magical movie experience but still attends Wes Anderson and Coen Brothers films dutifully. While the Cineplex has faltered, TV has grabbed the baton and run with it. Lou feels that long serials that follow meandering lives not only transcend the formulaic nature of most films but also builds complicated characters with rich histories. The Sopranos and Six Feet Under began a golden age for TV dramas, and Battlestar Galactica proved that anti-heroes were as much at home in outer space as in the funeral parlors of Earth. When Lou can find a podcast like the one that Battlestar producer Ronald D. Moore recorded, even better.

Lou Martin is editor of Culture, Class, and Politics in Modern Appalachia, and author of Images of America: Hancock County, WV and Smokestacks in the Hills. See all of Lou Martin’s posts.

Tori Michel

Tori Michel

Tori Michel

Tori “The TV Mom” Michel is from Columbus, Ohio. She is the mother of one very opinionated 5 year old boy and the wife of an awesome SysAdmin computer guy she met in high school. When she’s not watching children’s television or Doctor Who, she enjoys shows like The Big Bang Theory, CSI(Vegas), How I Met Your Mother, Community, Daria, Modern Family, The Middle, Cougar Town, Family Guy, New Girl, The Simpsons, Futurama, re-runs of Friends and Scrubs, and as little “reality television” as possible. She holds a bachelors degree from The Ohio State University in Philosophy and is currently “unschooling” TV Boy. She also manages to wrangle six cats, a Chinese Water Dragon, and a dog along with her very active son. Other hobbies include playing vintage video games or competitive pinball with her husband and friends, playing Destiny at home with her husband and failing miserably most times, indulging in “being a geek”, and occasionally reading a book.

See all of Tori Michel’s posts.

Amy Peters

Amy Peters

Amy Peters

While other young girls read The Babysitter’s Club and dreamed of becoming veterinarians, Amy Peters read Lovecraft and dreamed of becoming a werewolf. She has an unhealthy obsession with British actors, plays the position of Beater on her local community Quidditch team, makes no secret of liking gingers, and prefers dogs that don’t bark but yodel. She has a degree in film and a license in veterinary technology and is a certified phlebotomist. On the more domestic side of things she bakes well and is doing her best to raise her daughter to her full geeky potential.

Oh, and to her chagrin that werewolf thing never happened. See all of Amy Peters’ posts.