Jeremy Mathai
Expertise
Indie Movies, Sci-Fi, 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, Jeremy made good on his lifelong passion for The Lord of the Rings and achieved a personal high water mark in his career by conducting an exclusive interview with Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd.
- In addition to his extensive writing experience, he's also branched out and established a niche for interviewing below-the-line crew members of movies and shows, like VFX artists, costume designers, music composers as well as actual NASA astronauts.
Experience
Jeremy has been writing professionally online on a regular basis 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 /Film's new core of staff writers in June of 2021. During his varied freelancing career, Jeremy has previously contributed to a year-long The Lord of the Rings retrospective and had his writing published on the official Star Trek website. His bylines have been featured on various outlets such as IGN, Nerdist, and Polygon.
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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Schitt's Creek creator Dan Levy has written and directed Good Grief, a dramedy in which he also stars with Luke Evans, Ruth Negga, and Hamish Patel
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Netflix, unconcerned about silly things like decency and good taste, has officially ordered a second season of the controversial Squid Game: The Challenge.
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Apple TV+ is keeping their sci-fi series Foundation around for another season, so prepare to dig even deeper into Isaac Asimov's world.
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Big, big spoilers for Deadpool 3 await you within this post about set images, so if you want to remain unspoiled, take caution.
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Martin Scorsese fans can experience one of the most devastating and powerful movies of 2023 all over again when Killers of the Flower Moon hits the home market.
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Squid Game: The Challenge contestants have alleged that the reality show competition series was rigged. Netflix and its producers strongly disagreed.
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Godzilla Minus One manages to be a fresh take on the kaiju monster movie and include several intriguing ties to the original film in the franchise.
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Paul Greengrass is adapting T.J. Newman's best-selling novel "Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 421" for the big screen. Here's what we know about the film so far.
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The Black Phone 2 will bring back much of the cast of Scott Derrickson's original horror film, including (somewhat surprisingly) Ethan Hawke as The Grabber.
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The trailer for Universal/Blumhouse's new horror movie, Night Swim, features an evil force lurking in the seemingly idyllic depths of a family's swimming pool.
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Upon joining the Leonard Bernstein biopic, Bradley Cooper felt it imperative that Maestro explore the famous conductor's complicated marriage.
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While 2001: A Space Odyssey director Stanley Kubrick has passed away, there are still two living actors from his sci-fi classic.
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The latest episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters adds new context to a moment from the 2014 Godzilla movie.
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What will become of Ray Stevenson's Ahsoka character Baylan Skoll in the wake of the actor's untimely passing? Dave Filoni isn't sure.
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Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio, who both starred in their own Karate Kid movies, are teaming up for a new Karate Kid film.
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The horror hit Five Nights at Freddy's is coming home to digital and 4K Blu-ray very soon. Get all the details right here.
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes director Wes Ball says he felt the franchise needed a little bit of Star Wars, which is sure to get some people's attention.
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Despite its low budget, Taika Waititi's delayed sports comedy Next Goal Wins is unlikely to recoup its costs at the box office. But what went wrong, exactly?
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes creative team took inspiration from postwar Berlin when designing the post-Rebellion Capitol.
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters' VFX supervisor told /Film he used the 'iPhone test' from Gareth Edwards' 2014 Godzilla to help frame shots in the new Apple series.
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The Apple TV+ series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters gets off to a good start by cleverly building atop the foundation laid down by Godzilla 2014.
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And that's two comic book characters dressed in yellow and blue for Steven Yuen, who will play Sentry in Marvel's Thunderbolts movie.
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes may be a prequel, but the ending has much more complexity in setting up President Snow than you may think.
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A long time ago, in a Disney theme park far, far away, an unsuspecting family was possibly photobombed by Star Wars creator George Lucas.
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Second time's the charm? Disney aims to do right by the Percy Jackson books with the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Watch the new trailer here.
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The Hunger Games Universe isn't the most complicated extended universe in existence, but Songbirds and Snakes is best enjoyed with a little primer.
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In a new installment of our Best Action Scene Ever column, we make the case that the Superman moment in Brad Bird's cult classic belongs in the conversation.