Drew McWeeny

Drew McWeeny

Born: May 26, 1970
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Drew McWeeny (born May 26, 1970), also known by his pseudonym Moriarty, is a film critic, screenwriter, and the former west coast editor of the Ain't It Cool News website. In a December 2008 review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, McWeeny announced that he would be leaving Ain't It Cool News to work for HitFix.com.

He attended, but did not graduate from, Florida State University, instead choosing to focus on a career in entertainment in Los Angeles. He has two sons, Toshiro Lucas McWeeny, born in 2005 and Allen Miles McWeeny, born in 2008.

McWeeny was the subject of controversy in 1999 when a screenplay he had co-written was favorably reviewed by Harry Knowles on the website "Ain't It Cool News". In reviewing the script, Knowles did not disclose that McWeeny was a regular contributor to the website under the name "Moriarty". Film Threat magazine would later accuse Knowles of lacking journalistic integrity. At the time McWeeny was working as a closed caption editor at VITAC.

McWeeny, along with partner Scott Swan, has since become a working television writer, writing two episodes in the Masters of Horror series, both directed by John Carpenter. The pair also co-wrote the episode "Skin and Bones" for the NBC horror/suspense anthology television series Fear Itself. In May 2008 it was announced that "Bat Out of Hell", a motion picture written by McWeeny and Swan, would be directed by Joe Dante. He also continues to work as a film critic, though he has been banned from Twentieth Century Fox press screenings.

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Movies for Drew McWeeny...

Title: Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982
Character: Self
Released: July 8, 2023
Type: TV
Look back at the greatest geek year in films ever - 1982 - featuring stars, directors, writers, producers and pop culture historians sharing their insights about legendary movies that year.
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Title: VOIR
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 6, 2021
Type: TV
Film lovers examine the cinematic moments that thrilled, perplexed, challenged and forever changed them in this collection of visual essays.
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The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
Title: The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
Released: September 6, 2016
Type: Movie
A documentary about how the critically acclaimed film wound up being a box office disappointment, only to become regarded as a classic over a decade after its initial release.
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Jodorowsky's Dune
Title: Jodorowsky's Dune
Character: Self
Released: August 30, 2013
Type: Movie
Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this documentary covers director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) and his 1974 Quixotic attempt to adapt the seminal sci-fi novel Dune into a feature film. After spending 2 years and millions of dollars, the massive undertaking eventually fell apart, but the artists Jodorowsky assembled for the legendary project continued to work together. This group of artists, or his “warriors” as Jodorowsky named them, went on to define modern sci-fi cinema with such films as Alien, Blade Runner, Star Wars and Total Recall.
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Rewind This!
Title: Rewind This!
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Home video changed the world. The cultural and historical impact of the VHS tape was enormous. This film traces the ripples of that impact by examining the myriad aspects of society that were altered by the creation of videotape.
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The Making of Escape from Tomorrow
Title: The Making of Escape from Tomorrow
Released: February 12, 2013
Type: Movie
The Making of Escape from Tomorrow, included on the Blu-Ray release.
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The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Title: The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Character: Self - Film Critic
Released: August 18, 2012
Type: Movie
A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting to post and marketing. This is an amazing in-depth piece and it's notable how many women were involved in this production, from several Lionsgate executives to novelist Suzanne Collins herself. Jennifer Lawrence talks about her "hypocrisy" in not wanting to do a big budget blockbuster after having devoted herself to indies (despite X-Men, which she seems to discount somewhat). There's also a nice sequence on the strength and weight training the actors went through and the stunts that are so notable in the film, as well as having to dance around the violence implicit in the story due to the planned PG-13 rating the filmmakers were aiming for.
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Hitchcocked!
Title: Hitchcocked!
Character: Self
Released: August 11, 2006
Type: Movie
A tribute to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, featuring contemporary filmmakers, writers, performers, and cultural critics.
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The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees
Title: The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees
Character: Self
Released: July 23, 2002
Type: Movie
A documentary charting the rise and fall (and inevitable undead rise) of fictional killer Jason Vorhees from the Friday the 13th series, which takes in the "video nasty" phenomenon in general.
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Run Ronnie Run
Title: Run Ronnie Run
Character: Self
Released: January 20, 2002
Type: Movie
A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes the star of his own reality program.