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 and 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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Francis Ford Coppola is back with his long-awaited epic Megalopolis, and there's a wild new trailer to prove it.
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It sounds like the musical sequences in Joker: Folie à Deux were a labor of love for all involved, not least of all director Todd Phillips.
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Deadpool and Wolverine take on the Deadpool Corps in a climactic fight scene, but they were fighting something else in Ryan Reynolds' original pitch.
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Gilligan's Island nearly cast one of film and television's most beloved jerks (onscreen, not off) as The Professor.
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A Bones season 2 episode was shuffled back into season 3 in the wake of a real-life shooting in 2007.
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Channing Tatum's Cajun accent as Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine was exaggerated for comic effect, but it worked a little too well on set.
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What might very well be Ryan Reynolds' best movie almost didn't happen until he came on board the project.
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This action movie sparked controversy when heated debates over violent movies and the creation of the PG-13 rating were rampant. So what happened?
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Walt Disney Animation showed off a new look at the hotly anticipated Zootopia 2 during tonight's D23 panel. Here's what to expect from the upcoming sequel.
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Joaquin Phoenix has abruptly (and inexplicably) departed the queer romance film he was closely developing with Todd Haynes.
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The Deadpool & Wolverine filmmakers met with this X-Men movie veteran about appearing in a small role, but they couldn't agree on the terms to make it happen.
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Deadpool & Wolverine has many actors reprising their roles from Fox's Marvel movies, but recasts a pair of major villains.
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Magnum P.I. was one of the best shows of the 1980s. Here's what the still living cast members have been up to after all these years.
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Walker Scobell, who co-starred with Ryan Reynolds in The Adam Project, had his heart set on playing this Deadpool & Wolverine variant, but didn't get the job.
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Deadpool & Wolverine's Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner divorce joke is a lesson in how to be respectfully funny about a marriage that has ended.
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The great David Lynch says he likely won't be able to direct in person anymore. He 'wouldn't like' directing remotely, but would try that 'if it comes to it.'
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Netflix users are flocking to one of Henry Cavill's best but under-seen movies in significant numbers.
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Wyatt Russell thinks one of his dad's relatively earlier films is just about the 'perfect' Kurt Russell movie.
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While most jobs on a film set are self-explanatory, the roles of various producers are a bit more nebulous. Here's what what movie producers actually do.
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Deadpool & Wolverine is a true family affair, with all of Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's children showing up at different points.
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Deadpool & Wolverine has another eye-popping opening credits scene, but Ryan Reynolds wisely outsourced the dancing to a professional.
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While making Tombstone, Kurt Russell was worried about about a rival Western until Sam Elliott said something.
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The MCU sees another shake-up, as The Kang Dynasty blips into nothing and Avengers: Doomsday takes its place in the schedule.
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Working on the action-thriller Breakdown had Kurt Russell experiencing a kind of pain he wasn't used to from other movies.
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Dusty's Trail, the short-lived Western knock-off of Gilligan's Island, had an embarrassingly familiar premise.
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Hans Zimmer's Gladiator score is an all-time great, so much so he didn't see much reason to return for Gladiator II.
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Ryan Reynolds' highest-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes is also arguably his best one (and it has nothing to do with Deadpool).