Ethan Anderton
Expertise
Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars, Saturday Night Live
- Ethan has covered major entertainment events such as Sundance Film Festival, San Diego Comic-Con, and Star Wars Celebration.
- You can find quotes from Ethan's reviews in movie trailers and TV commercials and on movie posters and Blu-ray/DVD covers.
- Reporting from the sets of major films like "Real Steel," "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," "Captain America: Civil War," "Thor: Ragnarok," and more, Ethan has provided exclusive coverage for some of the biggest blockbusters in the world.
Experience
Ethan Anderton (aka Bradford Oman) has been an entertainment reporter for nearly 15 years. An obsession with movies, TV, pop culture and toys prepared him for this job his entire life, and it has allowed him to provide insightful and informative commentary on everything from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to Saturday Night Live. Starting out as a freelance writer at FirstShowing.net led to a leadership role as the managing editor for several years. During his tenure writing about cinema, from massive blockbusters to little indies, Ethan also dabbled in TV coverage at ScreenRant, Collider, and GeekNation. In 2015, Ethan came aboard /Film and eventually became one of the Senior Editors after the site joined the Static Media family. You can hear Ethan appearing regularly on The /Film Daily Podcast, as well as hosting his own podcasts Go Flix Yourself and The Ten To One Podcast.
Education
Ethan earned a bachelor's degree in film and video studies at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and he also completed a teaching program for high school English education.
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Stories By Ethan Anderton
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Deapool & Wolverine is not only packed with cameos and Deadpool variants, but it has a bunch of Avengers Easter eggs lying around too. Let's break them down.
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Deadpool & Wolverine provides a fond look back at the Marvel movies from 20th Century Fox, but it features a song that's been misused nostalgically for decades.
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Deadpool & Wolverine throws a Marvel Cinematic Universe star to the wind, but it's the movie's credits scene that confirms they might have been asking for it.
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To help kick off Comic-Con, Bottleneck Gallery has an uncanny new poster for X-Men '97 with artwork by Juan Ramos inspired by the show's first season finale.
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Johnny Depp's cameo in 21 Jump Street may be one of the best surprises ever (even if it was somewhat expected), but the actor had one stipulation for appearing.
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Echoing the drive-in scene from the original Twister, director Lee Issac Chung makes a callback in Twisters with another classic horror movie getting torn up.
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Twisters acts as more of a Twister reboot or remake than a sequel, but once you've seen the movie, it's easy to see how Helen Hunt could have fit in the story.
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Mutant is heading to Comic-Con for the first time, and will be selling this incredible Dune poster by artist Deb JJ Lee, which comes printed on gold foil.
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Loungefly has a new Nightmare Before Christmas bags collection that includes accessories with scientific Jack Skellington, the Mayor, and the ghost dog Zero.
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Even though Will Ferrell has made millions laugh every holiday season with Elf, he wasn't making co-star James Caan chuckle very much while shooting the movie.
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Sausage Party: Foodtopia has all the violence and graphic sexuality that the movie did, but the series takes things a bit further with one specific sex scene.
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The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Shaffer, and Jorma Taccone) team up with Seth Meyers to break down the era of SNL Digital Shorts at Saturday Night Live.
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The animated Sausage Party: Foodtopia seres packs the same raunchy punch as the movie, but elevates it with some hilarious and disgusting new concepts.
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Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright and co-writer Simon Pegg didn't want to pander to American audiences, but they did decide to change one line.
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Wayne's World was only allowed to use a few precious notes for a quick gag referencing one of Led Zeppelin's classic rock songs.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, an official Jaws LEGO set has arrived, featuring the shark and the trio of men pursuing it by boat.
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Kurt Russell, ever the estranged father of Peter Quill, kept flubbing a line in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, calling his son Star Wars instead of Star-Lord.
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A new wave of Deadpool & Wolverine Funko POPs have been revealed, showing off some of the strange multiverse characters we'll meet in the movie.
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LEGO's Lord of the Rings building brick playset of Sauron's Barad-Dûr tower is a humongous, stylish, and sleek build with some very cool features.
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Dexter's Laboratory finally has a complete series DVD set with (almost) every episode and the hour-long special Ego Trip. But it does have some shortcomings.
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Martin Short has returned as Jiminy Glick for a hilarious interview with Barry star Bill Hader, and it proves TikTok has a lot to learn about Hollywood satire.
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Hot Fuzz has never been given the Funko POP treatment before, but that changes with the new Nicholas Angel figure, who is locked and loaded for action.
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There were once rumblings of 23 Jump Street becoming a crossover with Men in Black, and Channing Tatum recently said it has "the best script."
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Jimmy Buffett made quite the hilarious cameo in Jurassic World, and that memorable moment has turned into an official action figure from Mattel.
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The Ghostbusters franchise has earned over $1 billion across 40 years. But how do they stack up against each other? Here are all the Ghostbusters movies ranked.
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The Office's season 5 episode 'Stress Relief' required a $12,000 fake cat for the show's hilariously chaotic cold open, thanks to Dwight's misguided fire drill.
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Apes together strong! Here's how to watch Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes at home.