Cleolinda "Cleo" Jones is an American writer and blogger. She is the author of the Movies in Fifteen Minutes

Movies in Fifteen Minutes

Movies in Fifteen Minutes is primarily the name of a set of Internet-based movie parodies by Cleolinda Jones...

 series of film parodies, which have a large cult following

Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a specific area of pop culture. A film, book, band, or video game, among other things, will be said to have a cult following when it has a small but very passionate fan base...

 on the internet.

Jones currently lives in Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...

, where she is a post-graduate student.

Published works

In 2005, Orion Books published Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Hollywood Blockbusters for People Who Can't Be Bothered, a collection of more parodies by Jones. The book has also been published abroad as Cut: Movies in Fifteen Minutes, but has yet to be published in Jones' native United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

.

Movies in Fifteen Minutes was praised for being "hilarious - but [also intelligent;] it's the pretensions of James Cameron

James Cameron

James Francis Cameron is a Canadian-American film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, environmentalist and inventor...

 and Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson

Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art.After appearing in...

 [that Jones] is mocking, not Dickens and Shakespeare."

Jones's recaps of Breaking Dawn

Breaking Dawn

Breaking Dawn is the fourth and final novel in the The Twilight Saga by American author Stephenie Meyer. Divided into three parts, the first and third sections are written from Bella Swan's perspective and the second is written from the perspective of Jacob Black...

, the fourth book in the Twilight series

Twilight series

Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. It charts a period in the life of Isabella "Bella" Swan, a teenage girl who moves to Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen...

, were heavily referenced in a blog posting in New York Magazine.

Jones's blog was quoted in the MSNBC article "A beginner's guide to 'Twilight' - How to pretend like you know what your teenage daughter is talking about," a commentary written by Dave White.