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About Brian VanHooker
Brian VanHooker is a Pop Culture Writer specializing in Celebrity Interviews and In-Depth Oral Histories in the areas of Comedy, TV, Film, Cartoons, Comic Books, 80s/90s Nostalgia, Fatherhood, Retro Games and Food (especially Pizza). He was the Senior Features Writer at Cracked and a Staff Writer at MEL. He has written for Inverse, Inside Hook, Maxim, Men's Health, Fatherly, SFGate and more. He's the co-creator of the comic book/cartoon Barnum & Elwood and The Tramp, an award-winning comedy pilot starring John O’Hurley. He also hosts a TMNT interview podcast called Turtle Tracks and was once called a “Good Guy” by Mr. T.
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An oral history of The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Netflix's quirky sci-fi masterpiece
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The endurance test is out there
Vin Diesel still doesn't understand what makes Fast Five a perfect Fast & Furious movie
Nothing beats that vault heist
7 movie roles Michael Jackson wanted to play (but thankfully didn’t)
You wouldn’t want your kid saved by this Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
Quentin Tarantino's divisive western is getting a surprising sequel
Django meets Zorro may be riding to a theater near you
Stranger Things: Tales from '85 fixes the final season's biggest mistake
And it makes for the best episode of the cartoon spinoff
30 years ago, a forgotten X-Files episode changed the course of the show
How Assistant Director Skinner became an integral part of The X-Files
35 years later, the writer behind Jim Henson's weirdest creation looks back: 'Our show was notorious'
Writer/designer Kirk Thatcher on the origins of the prehistoric sitcom and its infamous finale
Give me this banned Simpsons episode over the new Michael Jackson biopic any day
You won't find "Stark Raving Dad" on Disney Plus, and for good reason
Stranger Things: Tales from '85 recaptures the original's early season charm
The series is a pleasant surprise for an IP way past its prime
Daredevil finally reveals what [SPOILERS] has been up to for the past 7 years
Spoiler alert! Watch the latest episode of Daredevil: Born Again before reading this article
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem sequel director promises Shredder will be a 'spectacle'
Jeff Rowe teases the newest take on TMNT's original villain
Why the new animated Stranger Things series could only fit between seasons 2 and 3
The Zoomer is a big part of it
If Lee Cronin’s The Mummy looks too gross for you, try this lighter animated Mummy fare from the 1990s
Mummies Alive! was a solid late-1990s cartoon that's mostly been forgotten
Former Marvel Studios artists speak out on Disney layoffs and possible AI use
Marvel’s visual development team shaped the MCU, but now many are out of work
The Spaceballs sequel's new title proves we can't have nice things
It’s not called Spaceballs: The Search for More Money, but it should be