Jeremy Mathai
Expertise
Indie Movies, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, "Lord Of The Rings"
- Jeremy has received direct praise from many filmmakers, actors, and other notable industry figures for his exhaustive coverage of hidden gems and diverse storytelling.
- In the lead-up to San Diego Comic-Con 2022, he made good on his lifelong passion for "The Lord of the Rings," achieving a personal high watermark in his career by conducting an exclusive interview with Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd.
- Jeremy has established a niche for interviewing directors, stars, and below-the-line movie and TV crew members such as VFX artists, costume designers, music composers, and even actual NASA astronauts.
Experience
Jeremy has been consistently writing professionally online for nearly a decade. After graduating from college and earning his bachelor's degree, his freelancing work in film and television soon caught the attention of /Film. He joined the team's new core of staff writers in June of 2021. Throughout his varied freelancing career, Jeremy contributed to a year-long "The Lord of the Rings" retrospective, and his writing was published on the official "Star Trek" website. His bylines have been featured on various outlets, including IGN, Nerdist, Polygon, and Inverse.
Education
Jeremy graduated Dowling College with a bachelor's degree in science, which he has since turned into a successful career as a pop culture writer.
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Stories By Jeremy Mathai
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim leaves several bread crumbs hinting at the larger canon, including a surprising character reference.
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim hides the origin story for a crucial Lord of the Rings antagonist in plain sight.
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For the series' penultimate episode, Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 returns to a planet that first showed up all the way back in season 1.
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Austin Butler is following in Christian Bale's footsteps, with the actor now set to play Patrick Bateman in Luca Guadagnino's American Psycho movie adaptation.
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You'll soon be able to relive the final chapter in Eddie Brock and Venom's bromance by checking out Venom: The Last Dance at home.
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The first reactions to Squid Game season 2 are rolling in. Here's what critics are saying about the new installment in Netflix's smash-hit series.
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The Lord of the Rings anime movie The War of the Rohirrim is visually stunning but too small-scale to feel properly epic. Here's our review.
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November 2024 saw multiple worthwhile streaming releases fly under the radar, including an Aubrey Plaza comedy and a Steve McQueen war pic.
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Star Trek: Lower Decks is a show about Starfleet's underdogs, which means that other members of the Cerritos crew have been overlooked - until now.
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The Boys creator Eric Kripke has revealed a first-look photo for season 5 teasing the return of at least three major figures in The Seven.
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The full-length trailer for Disney's live-action Snow White remake is here, and we're too exhausted to get worked up over anything in it.
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The new Disney+ series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is an Amblin-style adventure that injects a breath of fresh air into the franchise. Here's our review.
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Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 continues to honor the franchise's history with its latest episode, which nods to two all-time great Trek episodes.
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The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, 'Fully Dilated,' features what might just be the show's biggest voice cameo to date.
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Between Gladiator 2 and Moana 2, only one of them truly succeeds at accomplishing what a legacy sequel should set out to do.
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If you're seeing Moana 2 in the theaters this weekend, make sure to stay for the post-credits scene that features an extra-special surprise.
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The Brad Pitt and George Clooney-led Wolfs is no longer getting a sequel. Allow director Jon Watts to explain why Wolfs 2 has been canceled.
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The second episode of Dune: Prophecy underlined why the Water of Life ritual we saw in Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two was so dangerous.
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Early reactions to Moana 2 are rolling in ahead of its theatrical release. Read on to find out what people are saying about Disney's animated sequel.
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Season 1 of Andor was beloved by a big chunk of Star Wars fans, but showrunner Tony Gilroy has bigger aspirations for season 2.
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Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, episode 6 name-drops a Next Generation character that's obscure even by the show's deep-cut standards.
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Disney's Moana remake has started filming, with newly-emerged set photos revealing Dwayne Johnson's look as the live-action Maui.
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As Star Trek: Lower Decks continues through its fifth and final season, we have an exclusive look at some new characters fans are sure to love.
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A Marvel veteran's scenes were cut from the theatrical version of Gladiator II, prompting speculation about who they were cast to play.
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Smile 2 is getting a digital release this week, and physical media fans might turn their frowns upside down when they see the physical version of it.
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Dune: Prophecy is set 10,000 years before the movies, but the show's open prologue goes back even further in time.
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The Dune: Prophecy premiere came out swinging with its shocking ending. Here's how it came to be, according to showrunner Alison Schapker.