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Jeremy Smith

@mrbeaks.bsky.social

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Freelance entertainment journalist. Credits: /Film, AV Club, Fangoria, New York Magazine, Polygon, Salt Lake Magazine, Thrillist, Variety, Yardbarker and so much more! Cleveland Cavaliers Fan/Sufferer. I've been to Prague.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, I implore my fellow journalists to stop calling WATERWORLD a flop.

Kevin Costner's Most Infamous Box Office 'Flop' Wasn't The Disaster People Think It Is - SlashFilm

Waterworld is often referred to as a massive box office flop that kicked off Kevin Costner's fall from commercial grace, but the truth is more complicated.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 6m

Here's @davidjroth.bsky.social on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Hits me right where I live, which feels like nowhere at this point. Must-read and all that. I hope he found time to watch SCARECROW during that long winter.

Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1h

TRON: ARES would've been a blockbuster if they let Lee Greenwood do the score.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2h

I do not believe this will be profitable for Frito-Lay.

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 12h

Vaguely remembering the time some online loser tore into Wampler for goofing on Rob Zombie's "Dragula." And Scott was like "How could you care about something this shitty?" This happened, no?

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 13h

It is accomplished... after 15 innings.

Willem Dafoe pinned to the cross in THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 14h

So slip us a rope, and sail on round the bend.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 15h

He kills in GANGS OF NEW YORK, and, uh, MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE? I do not know this podcast, but I hope they all get scabies.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 21h

Superior to GREEN LANTERN?

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 1d

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, he could always apologize and donate the money to a battered women's shelter.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Bill Burr's whole appeal was built around no-BS observations. Now that we know he's full of shit when a seven-figure check clears (from one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet), he has zero value as a comic. His career should be over, but I see a booking at Trump's ballroom in his future.

Defector @defector.com · 1d

Bill Burr has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, but he still can't settle on which lazy excuse he wants to employ. defector.com/bill-burr-ke...

Bill Burr Keeps Cycling Through Excuses For Doing The Riyadh Comedy Festival | Defector

By default, Bill Burr exists in a state of his ass being chapped, but clearly it’s been feeling more chapped than usual. The comedian has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh…

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Guiteau. So excited I can't spell the name of the standout character from Stephen Sondheim's ASSASSINS correctly!

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Guys, we're getting a James A. Garfield/Charles Giteau miniseries from Netflix next month that stars Michael Shannon, Matthew Macfadyen, Nick Offerman (as Chester A. Arthur!) and Betty Gilpin. My depression lessened for a second as I typed this. That's a big win in 2025!

Matthew Macfadyen Has Found The Perfect Role (And Perfect Real-Life Weirdo) To Follow Succession - SlashFilm

Succession's Matthew Macfadyen is following up his run on the HBO series by playing another (this time real-life) weirdo loser in Netflix's Death by Lightning.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Wolf being absolutely destroyed in Jeopardy by Andy Richter

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

(This is in reference to the THR's Costner article from yesterday, but the author of that piece is hardly the only offender.)

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, I implore my fellow journalists to stop calling WATERWORLD a flop.

Kevin Costner's Most Infamous Box Office 'Flop' Wasn't The Disaster People Think It Is - SlashFilm

Waterworld is often referred to as a massive box office flop that kicked off Kevin Costner's fall from commercial grace, but the truth is more complicated.

www.slashfilm.com

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

This for example. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Feels like congressional Democrats have abruptly changed their tune. I do not find this encouraging because they probably know something awful is coming, and they want to be on the right side before everything goes haywire.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

No. Merv Griffin didn't do puzzles, and you knew that when you became his neighbor. Merv was only afraid of an ignoble death.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

It's still on the site. You should be able to track ir down.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Merv Griffin's estate was next door, and I couldn't have that on my conscience.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Aside from erasing the coordinates of JJ Abrams' house, that was an easy review to edit.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

He watched THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY and angrily understood the pansexual appeal of Jude Law's Dickie Greenleaf.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

As a baseball fan and non-fascist, there is nothing better than watching a Trump-supporting bigot like Clayton Kershaw eat a mound of shit.

Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Editors rule. Love them. Save for the heavy-handed dickhead who recklessly revised a piece that left me sparring with a fact-checker over a falsehood I did not write. We worked it out, but the editor never apologized and is still making bank at a legacy media outlet today. I hope his organs liquify.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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