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Drew McWeeny

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Caustically optimistic. Potty mouth. FILM NERD 2.0. Netflix's VOIR. MASTERS OF HORROR. '80s ALL OVER. FEAR ITSELF. I helped break the Internet. Sorry about that. Keto for life. Visit drewmcweeny.com for all my shit.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 19d

Support human art. Support the plurality of voices. Trans rights are human rights. We are all in this together.

Resist what you know is wrong.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 5h

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 5h

First look at "Primal" Season 3 (by Genndy Tartakovsky).
Coming January 2026 on Adult Swim.

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X - Short Queen Dew 🇵🇸 🇨🇦 @shortqueendewie.bsky.social · 6h

Heyooo feminists of the world

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

ILLINOIS Candidate for Congress @abugai.bsky.social : “You said Prizker & Johnson need a history lesson - I’d like to give you one: when masked men are kidnapping entire families, naked, zip-tying their hands and throwing them into U-haul trucks… they’re usually not the good guys.”

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himham @himham.bsky.social · 11h

This is a fantastic insight into how ideas in media are workshopped with 10 unbearable people in the room telling you what to do.

Your favorite artist works in this kind of environment too.

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 13h

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 1d

I think everything should be ready by Friday or Saturday, but in the meantime...

www.drewmcweeny.com/a-little-war...

A little warm-up while we wait

Some thoughts on how this place is going to be different from Substack.

www.drewmcweeny.com

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 2d

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 2d

I've always liked Kaya's work, but this felt like new ground for her, and she and Gad make for a really surprising comic duo.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 2d

You know I'm a fan of FREAKED, and I really enjoyed ADULTHOOD. Glad to see both of these charting, sir!

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 2d

Both Adulthood and Freaked are now available to buy and rent on digital. They're number one and two in New Movies to Explore on Fandango, which is kinda fun. It's been a very long road getting Freaked back out there!

Image of Adulthood and Freaked on Fandango.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 2d

THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN.

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 2d

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 2d

Good to see you tonight, miss.

Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 2d

Lotta familiar faces at that premiere tonight. People genuinely buzzed to see Guillermo take his swing, and it played like a dream.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 2d

FRANKENSTEIN ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuules.

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 3d

Conservatives romanticize the Confederacy because no matter how much time passes, the Confederacy will never be 18 years old.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 3d

My buddy Zelda has very strong opinions on this stuff. A reminder that her dad left explicit instructions that he did NOT want corporations to be able to do this to him and that means us too. The bare minimum here is to respect the wishes of those who said NO.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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SCREAM Drafts @screendrafts.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI!

Booster Club Official Sponsor @bigmoviefan.bsky.social brought Screen Drafts veterans @bryancogman.bsky.social, @drewmcweeny.com, & @oriananudo.bsky.social to the Draft table to rank the 13 best COMEDY films of the 1970s!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3d

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A screenshot from Zelda Williams' instagram stories. It reads:

Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. Its dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough', just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

The second Instagram stories screenshot from Zelda Williams. It reads:

"And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it 'the future'. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume."

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 3d

Okay. Just a few final tweaks here and there and then drewmcweeny.com will be totally ready.

Formerly Dangerous

The all-purpose home of critic and screenwriter Drew McWeeny

drewmcweeny.com

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 4d

Thanks!

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Shannon 🎃 Swift @shannonandswift.bsky.social · 4d

Hey Mark Swift here of S&S. I will be doing a little thing on horror comedy Tues at 10am LA time with the talented @joshruben.bsky.social of WEREWOLVES WITHIN and HEART EYES fame. Sign up here if interested, should be a fun chat: events.jhu.edu/form/scary-f...

Scary Funny: An Exploration of Horror-Comedy | Johns Hopkins Events

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4d

The Republican platform is simple: they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 4d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 5d

Germany didn’t save Germany from Nazi Germany.

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Kier-La Janisse @kierlajanisse.bsky.social · 5d

It begins!

Slate for KILLING FOR CULTURE documentary by Kier-La Janisse

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