Ben Pearson
School
University Of Florida
Expertise
Hollywood History, Game Of Thrones, The Fast And Furious Franchise
- Ben is a member of the Southeastern Film Critics Association.
- He has produced and recorded hundreds of hours of podcasts devoted to film and television over the last decade.
- Ben also worked at Paramount Pictures, where he was able to gain valuable experience and first-hand insights into how the industry really operates.
Experience
Ben has been writing professionally about film and television since 2009. He has attended and covered the Sundance Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, AFI Fest, San Diego Comic-Con, CinemaCon, and other major events, and he's traveled to multiple countries to report on movies being filmed. He has interviewed hundreds of directors, writers, actors, and craftspeople over the course of his career. Ben has worked as a writer and editor at several movie websites, and joined /Film in 2017. He co-hosts the /Film Daily podcast.
Education
Ben graduated from the University of Florida in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in Telecommunications.
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Stories By Ben Pearson
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Gladiator 2 is largely a rehash of the first film, while Wicked soared above our expectations. Check out our podcast discussion about Wicked here.
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FX's Say Nothing is a spectacular adaptation of a terrific nonfiction book, and some of the best TV you're likely to see in 2024.
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Parker Finn, the writer/director of Smile and Smile 2, says he wanted audiences to feel complicit in the sequel's spectacular ending.
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Mason Thames stars in the first trailer for How to Train Your Dragon, a live-action remake of Dreamworks' beloved animated fantasy film.
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Ever wonder why there are so many production company logos in front of movies? What did each of those companies actually do, anyway? Here's the answer.
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Teryl Rothery, who played Dr. Janet Frasier on Stargate SG-1, was not ready to leave the show in season 7. But here's why she left anyway.
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Glen Powell has responded to the rumor that he's being eyed to take over the Mission: Impossible franchise from Tom Cruise.
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Larry David walked away from being the showrunner of NBC's Seinfeld at arguably the show's creative peak. Here's why he made that decision.
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Tom Cruise reportedly wants to make a follow-up to 1990's Days of Thunder, but the novelty of NASCAR driving on the big screen has long since disappeared.
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The visual conceit of Robert Zemeckis' latest movie is the primary reason to see it, but it's also the thing that hampers some of the film's power.
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Netflix canceled its controversial series Messiah in early 2020. Though the streamer didn't provide a reason, it's easy to read between the lines and see why.
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Squid Game returns after the holidays, and the latest trailer for the thrilling Netflix series looks like we're in for another binge-worthy season.
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All of the 3D animation in Netflix's The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, a doc that features CG avatars set in the World of Warcraft, was done by one man.
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15 years after it was initially released, Ti West's breakout movie The House of the Devil still holds up as an excellent example of period horror.
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It's tough to match the anxiety-inducing mania of Uncut Gems, but if you're looking for a classic movie that features a desperate protagonist, check this out.
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We Live in Time's director tells us about reuniting with Andrew Garfield, compares Florence Pugh to a heat-seeking missile, and much more in this interview.
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John Crowley, the director of We Live in Time, tells us about Florence Pugh's approach to acting and how it resulted in such a terrific performance.
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Star Wars Outlaws provides a template for Lucasfilm to potentially recapture the casual fans who have been turned off by the recent lore-obsessed TV shows.
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Taron Egerton plays a TSA agent who's blackmailed by a mysterious villain played by Jason Bateman in Netflix's Carry-On, a new thriller from Jaume Collet-Serra.
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An emotionally devastating closing moment of Slow Horses season 4 wouldn't have happened without a season 3 scene where two actors overdelivered in a big way.
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The director of Netflix's It's What's Inside once made a promo for the live-action Cowboy Bebop show, and it's bursting with the same creativity as the film.
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Greg Jardin, the director of It's What's Inside, tells us about making one of 2024's most exciting sci-fi thrillers.
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Acclaimed former stuntman Vic Armstrong tells us about his experience directing the opening future war sequence of Terminator 2 and fighting with James Cameron.
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The gigantic battle scene in The Rings of Power season 2 almost featured a gnarly death scene that was much more extreme than the one we actually saw.
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Another trailer for Squid Game season 2 is here, providing a deeper look at Netflix's return to the post-capitalist hellscape everyone obsessed over in 2021.
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When Tombstone and The Thing star Kurt Russell was asked about his favorite movie of all time, he named a film that came out nearly a decade before he was born.
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Alex Gibney tells us about directing HBO's two-part doc Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos, including its fascinating recreation of the opening credits.