RIOTUS is a comprehensive entertainment website that offers a rich blend of reviews, recommendations, and original content. Whether you are a movie fanatic, a TV show & streaming nerd, or a geek culture aficionado, RIOT-US.com has something to offer. The site’s engaging segments and diverse content, like the “Geek Girl Riot” radio show, make it a valuable resource for anyone looking to stay updated on the latest in entertainment and geek culture. And have a great time doing it.
Unleashing Your Nerdy Geekiness for Movies, TV/Streaming, Anime, Fantastical Fiction, and Beyond—get RIOTUS with us in riotous entertainment mode
Our Level of Enthusiasm
Rating System:
What is the LoE rating system? It’s our way of getting past the disconnect between “I love it but it’s terrible” and “I hate it, but the craft is peak.” Letter grades weren’t getting it done. The new Level of Enthusiasm ratings help us drill down to our true feelings. And it’s so satisfying. Like explaining how the Sailor Moon English dub is trash but you treasure it. Pronounced lü like the Scottish term for love, our LoE runs deep even when the show/movie/book/game isn’t.
Meet Our Rioters:
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Sherin Nicole
Sherin Nicole is an author, a pop-culture pundit, and might be a covert agent. The CIA offered her a college scholarship, but she’s too secretive for espionage. A pioneer in alt-rock radio, Sherin is a brand & marketing maven, and a paranormal romance author with three novels and numerous novellas under her pen names. One of which is featured in Book Riot’s “100 Must-Read Romantic Comedies.” Her first short story debuted in the Bloody Fabulous anthology, and she recently co-authored The Keys: Twisted Tales from Auntie’s Attic. Her stories also appear in Fireside Magazine, Cast of Wonders, Wayward Kindred, and Escape Pod. Widely quoted for her movie musings, she’s a CCA-accredited critic, with works featured on RIOT-US, RogerEbert.com, idobi, The Black List, and more. Culturally, she’s American, British-Caribbean, and Southern (with a love for grits, both savory and sugary, to prove it). Although reports show she resides in DC, Sherin is immersed in the worlds she writes—and hopes to see you there.
Credentials: CCA, WAFCA Leadership, AWFJ, Tomatometer-approved critic, Black Reel voter, CherryPicks, and RogerEbert.com contributor
Alex Bear
Alex Bear is a writer & editor who’s physically based in London but her heart is off somewhere wandering Middle-earth. Out on the internet, catch her dissecting everything new in entertainment—rounding up the latest TV & film, writing in-depth reviews, and cracking bad puns on-air with Geek Girl Riot. She likes iced tea, all things pop culture, and writing like she’s an American.
Julian Lytle
Julian Lytle is a critic and cartoonist live and from Washington DC. He has been reviewing films and television shows for the last ten years. Julian’s reviews have appeared in different outlets in the Washington DC area over these past ten years. He is also a member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association. He also hosts the podcast Ignorant Bliss where he also has discussions about film and TV with fellow critics and creatives from around the country.
Philip Jean-Pierre
I drew my first picture at 12, wrote my first story at 16, and got my first rejection letter at 20. As a UX/UI designer I talk to, learn from, and understand a client’s active and passive expectations. Raised on Octavia Butler, Langston Hughes, Jack Kirby and often referred to as “The Talent,” beyond all reasonable thought, I remain an illustrator and writer with a focus on dramatic storytelling—noir, occult, and things that go bump in the night. In geekery and for idobi, I am the blathering blatherskite of a reviewer and pop-culture vulture (with more snark than brains and the kilt to match).
Drew Bittner
Drew Bittner has written for Comics Scene, Starlog, Steve Jackson Games, TSR Inc., and WildStorm, where he co-created a popular card game. He’s been a book reviewer since 1986, a husband since 2005 and a father since 2009. That last explains his sleepy, disheveled appearance.
N. Renee Brown
N.R. Brown has a passion for books. During the day she splits her time between being a librarian and working with human remains…while at night she is a horror and dark fantasy writer and blogger. Her work has appeared in Chiaroscuro (www.chizine.com), Clockwork Chaos, and Bad-Ass Faeries #4: It’s Elemental. She is also a featured blogger on “Unleaded-Fuel for Writers” (www.unleadedwriting.com), where she explores the pitfalls of developing her craft.
She lives in Maryland with her partner Day and one very spoiled lab and two even worse cats.
Day Al-Mohamed
Day Al-Mohamed has a decades-long career focused on disability policy in a variety of legislative and executive arenas. She most recently completed her tenure as the White House Director of Disability Policy and currently serves in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) at the US Department of Labor. Outside of her policy work, Al-Mohamed is a regular host on idobi Radio’s Geek Girl Riot with an audience of 100,000 listeners and is a Founding Member of FWD-Doc (Documentary Filmmakers with Disabilities). She is currently working on a docu-series of disabled leaders for American Masters/PBS digital, and is a proud producer of the feature documentary “unseen”. Day was named a DOC NYC 2021 Documentary New Leader and was part of the NBC 2022 Original Voices Fellowship class. Day lives in Washington DC with her wife, N.R. Brown and her guide dog.
Kat Bittner
Kat Bittner works in project management by day and otherwise she can be found at an art museum, a concert, or effusively talking about kpop and romance. She’s passed on the same energy to her child, Cub, where they talk about both their interests in Geek Girl Riot’s Kat and Cub segments.
Soma Brodhun
Soma Brodhun is an accomplished People leader with proven abilities in Benefits Strategy & Administration, Employee Wellness, DE & I, Data Analysis & Integrity, Process Development, Project Management, System Configuration, and Operations Support. Her career has followed a thread of improving data quality and creating process efficiencies, woven throughout 20 plus years across several industries including healthcare, financial services, government services, hospitality and Big 5 consulting. Soma also dabbles in writing and is a host & content creator on Geek Girl Riot.
Monique PEARL
Monique Pearl, has produced events since her days at Howard University. Post-graduation, she began her career in network television production at CBS-NY, followed by a producing role at Classic Sports Network/ESPN.
Monique would go on to do live event production with AIDS Walk NY & LA, Vibe Magazine and a U.S. tour with Universoul Circus. Returning to her hip hop roots, she began producing profiles on, and interviews with, influential rappers/singers for B.E.T., All Access, Ozone, and Southern Smoke as well as her BTS work being featured on Alicia Keys, Van Hunt and Pastor Troy DVD’s.
Pivoting into the world of Film/TV Fashion, Monique advanced from PA to Costumer, to Personal and ultimately into Costume Supervisor, managing department logistics such as production meetings, script and continuity breakdowns, creating budgets, tracking costs and managing crew on shows like The Game, Barbershop 3, Kevin Probably Saves the World, Cop Shop, Naomi, Young Dylan and so many more.
Monique also writes and produces independent short films, commercials and videos as well as designs and sells clothing under her Iconafro brand.