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Jen Tombs-Core Features Writer

Jen Tombs

Core Features Writer

Contributor Since June, 2023
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Favorite Media

Jen is an avid cinema-goer and will always catch movies by the Wachowskis, Ridley Scott, or Wes Anderson. She's a sucker for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia binges and a big fan of speculative novels, often re-reading Neil Gaiman, Ursula Le Guin, and Larissa Lai. Her favorite games include Mass Effect, Divinity 2, and Pentiment.

Author Details

Jen is a British journalist who moved to Canada, mostly for the French vanillas, after working as a copy editor and occasional travel writer at a UK newspaper. Now she writes about movies while surrounded by the Rockies. When not watching films or writing, Jen reads novels, runs, hikes, and sinks scary amounts of time into video RPGs.

Industry Focus

Jen is a movies and TV features writer with a background in culture writing for UK and US media. As a literature grad, she's interested in utopian and dystopian ideas in sci-fi and fantasy, particularly Dune, The Matrix, and Alien. She follows Neil Gaiman adaptations closely, too, and is always ready to jump to Wes Anderson's defence.

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A collage of stills from Song of the South - created by Tom Russell
Why Disney Wants You To Forget Song of The South Exists
song of the south

Disney is reintroducing many of its classic movies to fans— but it's keen for one particular movie, Song of the South, to never see the light of day.

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Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho looking concerned in Dune
Is Jason Momoa's Duncan Idaho In Dune 2?
Dune: Part Two

Duncan Idaho is a memorable part of Dune's movie adaptation, but will Jason Momoa's charismatic swordmaster be back for the sequel?

Tilda Swinton Wes Anderson Movies
All 5 Tilda Swinton Characters In Wes Anderson Movies, Ranked
Wes Anderson

Tilda Swinton is among Wes Anderson's roster of regular actors, and played a variety of quirky side characters before her scientist in Asteroid City.

Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides wearing a stillsuit and Fremen robes in the desert of Arrakis
Dune 2 Will Struggle To Adapt 1 Important Paul Scene From The Books
Dune: Part Two

Denis Villeneuve's Dune masterfully adapted Frank Herbert's notoriously confusing prose, but one scene from the novel could hamper Dune: Part Two.

Xenomorph on top of a vehicle in Alien Covenant
Why The New Alien Movie Should Break Away From One Big Franchise Tradition
Alien: Romulus

Disney’s Alien: Romulus needs to break tradition and ditch a key element present the horror sci-fi franchise’s previous movies.

Coraline and Wyborne
Coraline Made One Big Change To Neil Gaiman's Book That Gave The Movie An Edge
Coraline

Henry Selick's movie adaptation of Coraline is a great mix of whimsy and terror, but one change from Neil Gaiman's book gives it an advantage.

Mickey Mouse and Superman against a red skull background
Disney’s Forgotten 94-Year-Old Horror Movie Beat Superman In 1994's Greatest Cartoons Poll
Disney

A nearly century-old Disney horror movie was highly rated by animation insiders in the 1990s, and the spooky jaunt even beat 1941's Superman.

Collage featuring Harry Potter, the Sanderson Sisters, and Sabrina Spellman
10 Best Movies And Shows About Witches Streaming Right Now
Movies

These movies and shows about witches prove the enduring influence of these beings on pop culture ― and they’re perfect to watch for Halloween.

Collage of characters from Beetlejuice, Totally Killer, and The Final Girls
10 Horror Comedy Movies Like Totally Killer To Watch Next
Totally Killer

Kiernan Shipka's 2023 film Totally Killer provided plenty of gore and laughs, with plenty of similar horror comedy movies being perfect follow-ups.

Daisy Ridley's Viola and Tom Holland's Todd sit in Chaos Walking.
10 Canceled YA Franchises That Ended After Just 1 Movie
Movies

Not every movie adaptation of a young adult book series can be a Harry Potter or Hunger Games. Some, for better or worse, only lasted for one film.

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