Drew McWeeny

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Drew McWeeny, also known by his pseudonym Moriarty, is a film critic, screenwriter, and the west coast editor of the Ain't It Cool News website. He attended, but did not graduate from, Florida State University instead choosing to focus on an entertainment-centric career in Los Angeles. He spent a couple of years doing closed captioning at VITAC before deciding to focus more on his screenwriting. McWeeny was the subject of controversy when, in 1999, one of his scripts (Amusements) was favorably reviewed by Harry Knowles on the Ain't It Cool News website. His position as one of the contributors to the site (as Moriarty) was not disclosed in the review. This has led to allegations of a conflict of interest between his professional and non-professional lives. Nevertheless, McWeeny has managed to become an in demand screenwriter with multiple assignments at multiple studios.

In December of 2005, his first television episode aired on Showtime as part of the Masters of Horror series. Directed by John Carpenter, the episode Cigarette Burns was shown at both the Torino Film Festival and at the Butt-numb-a-thon in Austin, and is scheduled to play in competition at the Sitges Film Festival in October of 2006. In May of 2006, he and his co-writer Scott Swan reteamed with Carpenter for a second original episode of the series, entitled "ProLife." He is currently co-writing the script for the third entry in the Mortal Kombat movie Series.

He has one son, Toshiro Lucas McWeeny, born in 2005. His son was named after famous Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune and Star Wars director George Lucas.