Liz Young
School
University Of Arizona, East Carolina University
Expertise
Harry Potter, Found Footage & Computer Screen Horror, Book Adaptations
- Liz has covered popular events like New York Comic Con and the London Independent Film Festival.
- She hosts comic con panels about the wizarding world.
- She has worked with Media Lab Books to help pen two unofficial Harry Potter resource books.
Experience
Liz is an entertainment writer and horror fanatic living in sunny Arizona. After completing her degrees in Anthropology, Liz decided to embrace her love for writing and embark on a new path. She began working with MuggleNet in 2020, covering film events and writing articles focused on the Wizarding World. Liz's writing has also been featured in MovieWeb, including interviews with actors, composers, and producers, and The Daily Fandom.
Education
Liz received a bachelor's in anthropology from the University of Arizona and a master's in anthropology from East Carolina University.
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Stories By Liz Young
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Cobie Smulders has been keeping a lower profile since her breakout roles in "How I Met Your Mother" and "The Avengers," but she's still managed to stay busy.
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Rewatching the "A Quiet Place" series, fans will notice a few details that make it completely different now thanks to new information about the production.
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Following her breakout role in "Bridge to Terabithia," Bailee Madison has expanded into more TV and film work, music, and even writing as a bona fide star.
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The cast of the new "Star Wars" series "The Acolyte" is a mix of familiar and fresh faces, many of whom you may have seen in other roles large and small.
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Glen Powell's career took him from "Spy Kids 3" to "Top Gun: Maverick" and "Twisters." Here's every major project of Powell's, broken down and in order.
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It's hard for actors to make it through endless interviews and not give away any spoilers, but it feels like these stars didn't even try.
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Rewatching "Deadpool" now, with the help of deleted scenes, cast and crew comments, and more, brings a lot of new things about the R-rated comedy to light.
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Before donning a crown for Netflix's fantasy actioner "Damsel," Millie Bobby Brown had a meteoric rise from a globe-trotting childhood to "Stranger Things."
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"Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" star Chance Perdomo was just 27 when he died in a tragic motorcycle accident. Here are some little-known facts about the actor.
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There are positive filming experiences, there are negative filming experiences, and then there are the movies that actually traumatize their actors.
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Many actors are known for the intensity and realism of their performances, but some had to seek out therapy after playing roles that consumed them.
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Nineties kids loved Goldberg, the goalie Shaun Weiss plays in the Disney hockey comedy series "The Mighty Ducks" - but whatever happened to the actor?
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Season 1 of "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" ended with Percy truly growing as a character and demigod, while paving the way for more fantastical adventures.
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If you're thrilled for Netflix's live-action "Avatar: The Last Airbender" series but don't know who's in it, check out the cast and why they look so familiar.
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The ending of Nathan Fielder's bizarre, borderline disturbing TV series "The Curse" has enough for audiences to chew on for months.
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"Mean Girls" is coming back to the big screen with a near brand new cast. Here's where you may have seen the stars of this big screen musical before.
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Miranda was Lizzie Maguire's best friend on the popular Disney Channel show, but Lalaine's career has gone on its own path far away from her child star origins.
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Packed full of mysteries both resolved and unresolved, the ending of Hulu's "Black Cake" has plenty of storylines for audiences to unravel.
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Netflix thriller "Leave The World Behind" poses more questions than it answers. But what does the ending mean? We take a look at some possible explanations.
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As we return to Panem, "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" offers us a glimpse at President Snow's youth during the 10th Hunger Games.
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For many years, Nina Dobrev starred in the popular series "The Vampire Diaries." But what has she been up to since leaving the show?
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While there are plenty of characters in "Harry Potter" who die on-screen, there are even more whose deaths are only mentioned, and never actually shown.
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Horror prequel "Pet Sematary: Bloodlines" leaves audiences with plenty of unanswered questions at the end. We dive into, and explain, the ending of the movie.
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In the world of "Harry Potter," students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are placed in four houses. Here's every Hogwarts house explained.
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There was so much more to Cameron Boyce than met the eye. Here's the untold truth about the Jessie and Descendants star, who died way too young.
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At Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, the animatronics aren't what they seem. Here's every killer animatronic we'll see in the "Five Nights at Freddy's" movie explained.
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The Conjuring Universe has given horror fans some memorable demons, but which is the scariest? We've ranked them from creepy to absolutely terrifying.