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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Rotten Tomatoes is introducing a new label known as 'Verified Hot,' and we already have thoughts about where all this is going.
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Behind the scenes images from George Miller's canceled Justice League: Mortal film have revealed Mad Max actor Hugh Keays-Byrne's look as Martin Manhunter.
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One co-writer of James Mangold's Logan reacted positively to Deadpool & Wolverine's jaw-dropping opening scene, which pays homage to Logan in an unexpected way.
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Joker: Folie à Deux kicks off with a Looney Tunes-inspired animated opening developed by none other than a famed French animator and director.
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Joker: Folie à Deux was surprising enough, but is director Todd Phillips open to the possibility of Joker 3? Here's what he had to say on the subject.
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At an event hosted by the Oxford Writers' House, George R.R. Martin explained why he hasn't finished writing the next book in his A Song of Ice and Fire saga.
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Michael Keaton was meant to return as Batman in the canceled Batgirl movie, but a new interview revealed that he's not exactly heartbroken about that.
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Alien: Romulus finds a clever solution to a problem that's been affecting the tension and stakes of the Alien franchise for years.
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Alien: Romulus makes its big bad feel terrifyingly new and unknowable simply by revealing more layers to the Xenomorph lore.
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Alien: Romulus feels awfully similar to another Fede Álvarez horror movie.
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Alien: Romulus pays homage to everything that's come before in the Alien franchise, including a classic survival video game.
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Sauron the deceiver is back to cause more trouble in the new trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2.
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New Deadpool & Wolverine concept art reveals where Ben Affleck's Daredevil and Nicolas Cage's Ghost Rider could've shown up in the film.
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Director James Wan is teaming up with Universal to remake one of the studio's greatest monster horror movies.
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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively set an unexpected record with the duel box office performance of Deadpool & Wolverine and It Ends With Us.
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Lee Issac Chung's blockbuster sequel Twisters is coming to the home media market, complete with bonus features and more.
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Andor season 2 will bring back arguably the best Star Wars series we've seen so far and takes us closer to Rogue One. What's in store for the rebel spy?
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The Cartoon Network website has been shut down by Warner Bros. Discovery in a blatant attempt to goose Max's subscriber numbers.
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Deadpool & Wolverine very nearly brought Robert Downey Jr. back as Tony Stark, but the idea was abandoned for understandable reasons.
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Netflix anime film The Imaginary, Ilana Glazer comedy Babes, and Jake Gyllenhaal's Presumed Innocent TV series all flew under the radar last month.
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Rotten Tomatoes critics have similar feelings about It Ends With Us, the Blake Lively-starring film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's best-selling novel.
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Here's when you can watch Yorgos Lanthimos' idiosyncratic Kinds of Kindness, starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, and Willem Dafoe, at home.
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A familiar character popped up for a brief moment in the House of the Dragon season 2 finale, but were viewers seeing a familiar performer?
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The House of the Dragon season 2 finale reveals more information about one of the more mysterious characters from Game of Thrones.
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The House of the Dragon season 2 finale's big cameo appears to confirm a longstanding Game of Thrones theory.
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Trap doesn't have a traditional M. Night Shyamalan twist, but that doesn't mean the movie doesn't have more than a few tricks up its sleeve.
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M. Night Shyamalan's Trap just might be the funniest movie of the filmmaker's career so far, but the film's humor is likely going to leave audiences divided.