Jeremy Smith
Location
Salt Lake City, UT
Expertise
New Hollywood Cinema, Westerns, Soundtracks
- In 2005, Jeremy created the website Collider with Steve Weintraub and "American Pie" producer Warren Zide.
- His first book, "George Clooney: Anatomy of an Actor", was published by Phaidon Press and is available wherever fine books are sold. His second book, "When It Was Cool", a memoir about his experiences as a pioneering online journalist, is due later this year.
- He was the co-host of the popular "Twin Peaks" podcast "Fire Talk with Me" with Allie Goertz.
Experience
Jeremy Smith is an entertainment writer with over two decades of experience that stretches back to the infancy of online journalism. He found his love for film criticism on Usenet forums in the mid-1990s, and quarreled his way into a staff position at Ain't It Cool News under the nom de plume "Mr. Beaks." Jeremy has previously written for film and pop culture websites like Collider, Yardbarker and Ain't It Cool News, and legacy media publications like Variety, New York and Cahiers du Cinéma. Additional credits include Vice, Fangoria, Thrillist, Polygon, Backstory Magazine, Birth.Movies.Death, CHUD, Creative Screenwriting, Endcrawl and DVD Journal.
Education
Jeremy earned a BFA in Theatre Arts & Drama from Ohio University. His scholastic achievements earned him an internship at the legendary Circle Repertory Theatre, where he continued his theatrical education under the supervision of Austin Pendleton and Milan Stitt.
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Stories By Jeremy Smith
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Is director Quentin Tarantino's final film, The Movie Critic, really dead? Have we lost out on a QT cinematic universe?
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Danger, Will Robinson! Here are the only major actors still alive from Lost in Space and what they've been up to after all these years.
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The Oscar-winning documentary O.J. Simpson: Made in America is now available to stream on Netflix.
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Independence Day director Roland Emmerich's 1998 Godzilla did not impress critics or audiences. Here's the saga of how it came to be, and where it stands on RT.
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Kirstie Alley's Cheers audition was great, save for one small problem: nobody remembered to film it for NBC executives.
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Brad Dourif says he's pretty much retired from acting, with the notable exception of Chucky, of course.
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Huge film festival shake-up: the Sundance Film Festival is looking to leave Park City, Utah.
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General Veers, the character played by Julian Glover in The Empire Strikes Back, nearly appeared in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Here's why he didn't make it.
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Even the infamously unruly Bill Murray stuck to the script for Groundhog Day most of the time, save for one interaction with Ned Ryerson (Stephen Tobolowsky).
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This infamous 1960s historical epic cost Fox Studios a lot of money.
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Steven Spielberg's story for the horror classic Poltergeist owes a lot to the work of Richard Matheson, especially his Twilight Zone episode 'Little Girl Lost.'
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Adam Sandler is the four-quadrant king of Netflix.
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Stop the planet of the apes, I want to get off! For now, though, here's what we saw of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes at CinemaCon 2024.
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We saw some bloody footage from Wolf Man at CinemaCon 2024!
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Warner Bros. showed footage from Bong Joon-ho's Parasite follow-up Mickey 17 at CinemaCon. There are no words to explain his new Robert Pattinson sci-fi flick.
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What a twist! We got to see footage from M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller Trap at CinemaCon 2024.
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Ishana Night Shyamalan, daughter of M. Night, tries her hand at directing a creepy thriller with The Watchers. Here's what we saw from the film at CinemaCon.
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Fatal Attraction gave Glenn Close her best role - but she almost didn't get the part.
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Few would argue against Die Hard as Bruce Willis' best role, but at the time of casting, it was a huge gamble.
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Logan is one of the best superhero films under the Marvel umbrella, and it might be because it was inspired by a classic Francis Ford Coppola thriller.
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Babes got stellar reviews after premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2024, and the first trailer has unfurled some big, nasty laughs.
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Today, Nelson Peltz's fight against Disney and his efforts to secure two seats on the company's board failed spectacularly. Let's break it down.
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When The Sopranos were first casting, they inspired an Italian-American mob (no, not that kind).
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In the silly spirit of this cinematic mash-up, you could consider Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt's The Fall Guy an honorary addition to the Barbenheimer saga.
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35 years after Patrick Swayze starred in dive bar bouncer action flick Road House, Jake Gyllenhaal squared up for a remake. How does it compare?
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire's toothache subplot was inspired by director Adam Wingard's real-life tooth pain while filming his cult horror hit You're Next.
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire director Adam Wingard drew from his own trippy real-life experiences for one of the movie's Hollow Earth sequences.