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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!

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

This week, we look at the many ways writers have imagined our future, and the astonishing new technology, fashion, problems and ethical dilemmas that might come to pass.

Our collection includes:

• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clark
• Ad Astra by James Gray & Ethan Gross
• Black Mirror – “San Junipero” by Charlie Brooker
• Black Panther by Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole
• Blade Runner by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples
• Blade Runner 2049 by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green
• Dune by Jon Spaihts and Dennis Villenuve and Eric Roth
• Futurama – “Space Pilot 3000” by David X. Cohen & Matt Groening
• Gattaca by Andrew Niccol
• Her by Spike Jonze
• Interstellar by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
• Minority Report by Scott Frank
• Star Trek: The Next Generation – “The Best of Both Worlds, Parts I & II” by Michael Piller
• The Fifth Element by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen
• The Martian by Drew Goddard
• Total Recall by Ronald Shusett & Dan O’Bannon
• WALL-E by Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon

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

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

This week, we look at at the many blood-draining Vampire stories to see how a sub-genre can continually reinvent itself in order to stay immortal.

Our collection includes:

• Blade by David S. Goyer
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer – “Welcome to the Hellmouth” by Joss Whedon
• Doctor Sleep by Mike Flanagan
• Dracula – “The Rules of the Beast” by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat
• From Dusk till Dawn by Quentin Tarantino
• Interview with the Vampire – “In Throes of Increasing Wonder…” by Rolin Jones
• Let Me In by Matt Reeves
• Near Dark by Eric Red and Kathryn Bigelow
• Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch
• Shadow of the Vampire by Steven Katz
• The Lost Boys by Jeffrey Boam
• The Vampire Diaries – “Pilot” by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec
• True Blood – “Strange Love” by Alan Ball
• Twilight by Melissa Rosenberg
• Van Helsing by Stephen Sommers
• What We Do in the Shadows – “Pilot” by Jemaine Clement

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