Drew McWeeny

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 Aint It Cool News website In a December 2008 review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button McWeeny announced that he would be leaving Aint It Cool News to work for HitFixcom 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 cowritten was favorably reviewed by Harry Knowles on the website Aint 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 cowrote the episode Skin and Bones for the NBC horrorsuspense 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia