Cole Smithey

Cole Smithey (born July 26, 1963 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American critic. He is best known as a film critic for Rotten Tomatoes, his website ColeSmithey.com, and alternative weekly newspapers around the country.
Career
Smithey began writing reviews for The Independent in Raleigh, North Carolina, The Colorado Springs Independent and the Tacoma Reporter in Washington in 1997. He branched out into other alternative weekly newspapers across the United States and various national and international magazines, including CMQ, Unleashed, The Local Mag, The Jewish Magazine, and CT Slant. His celebrity interviews include top stars and indie up-and-comers. His weekly film review video series "Cole Smithey's Movie Week," has appeared on the websites of The Star-Press in Muncie, Indiana and City Pulse in Lansing, Michigan, as well as AOL Television and USA Today. It currently appears at his website, ColeSmithey.com.
Smithey is the Film Editor for Kidsville News, a website and national newspaper print supplement with a circulation of 1.4 million.
Personal life
Smithey currently lives in Manhattan. He studied dramatic art, screenwriting, and filmmaking at San Diego State University, Hartnell College (Salinas, CA), and San Francisco City College. He worked as an actor in San Francisco during the early to mid 1990s.
Using the stage name Cole Blooded, Smithey played drums in one of San Diego's early 1980s punk scene bands, The Rockin' Dogs.
 
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