Drew McWeeny

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Drew McWeeny

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May 26, 1970 (55 years old)

Drew McWeeny

Known For

Icons Unearthed: Lord of The Rings
0h 42m
TV Show 2024

Icons Unearthed: Lord of The Rings

Through trials, false starts, injuries and near death experiences, the...

Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982
0h 40m
TV Show 2023

Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982

Look back at the greatest geek year in films ever...

1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
2h 44m
Movie 2022

1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!

A remarkable new epic documentary spotlighting the pop culture milestones...

The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
0h 55m
Movie 2016

The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant

A documentary about how the critically acclaimed film wound up...

Jodorowsky's Dune
1h 30m
Movie 2013

Jodorowsky's Dune

Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this...

Rewind This!
1h 34m
Movie 2013

Rewind This!

Home video changed the world. The cultural and historical impact...

The Making of Escape from Tomorrow
Movie 2013

The Making of Escape from Tomorrow

The Making of Escape from Tomorrow, included on the Blu-Ray...

Hitchcocked!
0h 24m
Movie 2006

Hitchcocked!

A tribute to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, featuring contemporary...

Run Ronnie Run
1h 26m
Movie 2002

Run Ronnie Run

A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes...

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Drew McWeeny, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.