Conor McShane-Contributor

Staff Writer

Contributor

Contributor Since October, 2024
Qualifications Over 15 years of experience in creative and pop culture writing, with bylines at several publications.
Expertise
movies & TV, Horror, Sci-Fi
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About Conor McShane

Conor McShane has been writing about movies and TV in one form or another for 15 years, since starting his first Wordpress blog in 2009. During his 10 years living in Chicago, he wrote theatre reviews for arts publications Chicago Stage Standard and PerformInk, and joined the horror-centric website Morbidly Beautiful as a staff writer in 2021.  There, he writes and edits the column Tubi Tuesday, where he recommends movies found on Tubi, the greatest of all streaming sites.  In addition to his pop culture writing, Conor is a playwright whose work has been produced throughout Chicago as well as in Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, New York City, and the World Wide Web.  He's also dipped his toe into podcasting, creating and producing 8 episodes of a series called First Time for Everyone, which explored the lifelong process of creative evolution through the lens of writers' earliest works.  He lives in Michigan with his partner Leslie and their cat Cheena, who he thinks likes him but can never be quite sure.

Favorite Movies

The Thing (1982)
Blade Runner (1982)
Evil Dead 2 (1982)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Almost Famous (2000)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
 

Favorite TV Shows

Community
Parks & Recreation
The Good Place
Hannibal
Spaced
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Industry Focus

Conor has been writing about pop culture in its various forms since 2009.  He has written reviews and analysis for Morbidly Beautiful, Chicago Stage and Screen, and PerformInk, in addition to his self-published blogs.  He currently writes movie and TV features for MovieWeb, and previously held a similar role at The Best War Games.

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1977's animated The Hobbit features a wonderfully unhinged voice performance.

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Art the Clown might go down as a great slasher villain if the franchise ends with a bang.

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The legendary author has been slowly mastering crime fiction in recent years, and adapting one such story to the screen could prove it to audiences.

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Can the show bring back some prestige to the saga's TV slate?

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Mike Flanagan's Clayface could be great if it takes some lessons from one of 2024's best horror movies.

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For overlooked indies and hard-to-find cult classics, there's really only one option

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Will DreamWorks follow Disney down the path of endless remakes?

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The middle chapter of an unlikely horror franchise leaves the platform soon.

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One of the director's most famous and confounding films is leaving the platform soon.

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A trio of films starring a never-better Vin Diesel is available now

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A look at one of episode three's most puzzling scenes.

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Why is Mark S. so important to Lumon?

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The film adaptation needs to preserve the game's cheeky sense of humor.

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The show should take a cue from another acclaimed series.

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The season two premiere's most memorable moment has a double meaning.

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The series features some very funny people, but one stands out from the rest

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A look at one of the season two premiere's strangest surprises.

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