Cole Smithey

Joseph Cole Smithey (born: ), is an American film critic and a small YouTuber who was featured on , reviewing movies.
==Early Life==
Joseph Cole Smithey was born on July 26, 1963 in Richmond, Virginia to his estranged mother Barbara Ann Weston and an unknown father.
Cole recounts in his website's articles about his early life growing up in Richmond, included him playing with his stepfather's gun, working as an assistant for his stepfather's touring magic show for 10 years and collected comics as a hobby.
Cole mentioned in an article about his near-death experience as a child in early 1970s; When Cole and his mother Barbara were alone while his stepfather was out cheating on Barbara, an intruder were outside the apartment door trying to break in. Barbara brought the gun to scare an intruder off, but after she shot the gun, the bullet ricocheted off the apartment's steel door and the ceiling and nearly killed Cole as a result, hitting the wall a foot away from his head.
When Cole was nearly 17 in 1980, he moved to California and graduated from San Diego State University with a Dramatic Arts degree in music in 1984. Cole recollected that during his time at San Diego, he and 3 other people formed a punk rock band named "The Rockin' Dogs" in Poway, where Cole was a drummer. The band would later be broken up in 1985. He later moved to northern California, then later San Francisco and attended two colleges with a similar course of study. While in San Francisco, Cole was doing a music show called "Cole Blooded", where he apparently shifted to guitar from drummer.
==Career==
In 1996, Cole moved to Manhattan, New York, where he then began working as a full-time film critic, reviewing movies on Rotten Tomatoes, titling himself as "The Smartest Film Critic in the World". 
Cole was also known for being the first critic to give a negative review to two well-received movies and , ruining both of the movies' rating scores on Rotten Tomatoes in 2010 and 2017 respectively.
==Trivia==
*Cole is also known as a half-brother to infamous webcomic artist, most documented person and trolling target Christine Chandler, known as CwcvilleGuardian or Chris Chan.
*Cole is married to Katherine Kyle since March 2013.
*Cole had two near death experiences, once when he was about 19, had a sinus infection which came close to killing him, second in which he had necrotizing fasciitis in 2016 after an ED nurse made a misdiagnosis.
*Cole is friends with syndicated cartoonist .
*Cole was a big fan of rock band KISS.
*, a late famous film critic, once mocked Cole's title "The Smartest Film Critic in the World".
*Cole has co-hosted a free weekly podcast called "La Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast)", in which he invites any guest each podcast and talks about movies and more. The podcast has been going on since April 2016 and it has stopped since late 2019.
*Cole's favorite movies are , and .
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