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Featured Friday: Modern Anxieties

November 15, 2024 News

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at works that were made in response to the uncertainties of this current moment, and the myriad of ways writers can reflect and critique the world they live in.

Our collection includes:

  • BlacKkKlansman by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
  • Don’t Look Up by Adam McKay
  • First Reformed by Paul Schrader
  • Joker by Todd Phillips & Scott Silver
  • Parasite by Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won
  • Promising Young Woman by Emerald Fennell
  • Red Rocket by Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch
  • She Said by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
  • Succession – “Pilot” by Jesse Armstrong
  • The Boys – “Pilot” by Eric Kripke
  • The Handmaid’s Tale – “Pilot” by Ilene Chaiken
  • The Post by Liz Hannah
  • Uncut Gems by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie
  • Us by Jordan Peele

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

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