<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Matthew Pizana]]></title><description><![CDATA[Matthew Pizana]]></description><link>https://www.matthewpizana.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:19:21 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.matthewpizana.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Digger Review ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Was there a moment, right as the stupid Cinemark rewards commercial was kicking in, that I thought maybe Tom Cruise had flown too close to the sun and I was about to watch Icasus come crashing back to earth? Absolutely. Movies are never a certainty, even for Tom Cruise (see Rockstar). But it took me about sixty seconds, and one look at that god awful cat, and I knew there's no way the movie mayor was going to let me down.  Digger is the story of Digger, a man of great wealth and means, who...]]></description><link>https://www.matthewpizana.com/post/digger-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac2ec55baa4cdfb2685699d</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:17:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/867de3_74241c02f1ee4f2eb7d83eb0113f60c4~mv2.avif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Matthew Pizana</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy Endings - Truck Off]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Dave’s suddenly successful mobile business earns him a spot at a promotional-truck expo, Alex turns it into a battle of the sexes by launching a competing truck, dragging the whole gang into a ridiculous rivalry involving viral marketing, secret alliances, a suspicious candy van, and the realization that sometimes sticking with what you’re good at is the best business plan.]]></description><link>https://www.matthewpizana.com/post/happy-endings-truck-off</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ab1a167a9cd81127b609278</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:28:45 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Matthew Pizana</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Armed Bandit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Josh is a simple man. He goes to church, eats frozen dinners, tries to do the right thing and generally prefers that the world leave him alone. Then his supposedly missing ex-wife, Brianna, shows up at his apartment very much alive—except for the arm she has voluntarily removed as part of a plan to collect her life insurance money. Against his better judgment, Josh gets pulled into the scheme. His job is simple: make the arm look like it has been rotting in the wilderness for months, bury it,...]]></description><link>https://www.matthewpizana.com/post/one-armed-bandit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9edc08f461d5f63d59e1ce</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:45:19 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Matthew Pizana</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty]]></title><description><![CDATA[After her brother’s death sends her life into a tailspin, a movie-obsessed bakery owner stranded at a roadside motel befriends its eccentric clerk and gets swept into a supposed Illuminati conspiracy and an increasingly unhinged adventure that may be exactly what she needs to find her way back to the living. For more info or to read the script, please email me]]></description><link>https://www.matthewpizana.com/post/empty</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a94bbaa9606b1a7a86c3807</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:24:33 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Matthew Pizana</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scapegoat ]]></title><description><![CDATA[After years working in the shadowy world of private military contracting, a disillusioned operative returns home hoping to leave his old life behind, only to become the target of a sprawling conspiracy after a woman close to him is murdered—forcing him through a chain of criminals, political fixers, and powerful elites determined to make him the scapegoat for their crimes. Please email me if you are interested in reading the script.]]></description><link>https://www.matthewpizana.com/post/scapegoat</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a94b65121ca4b8be9694f44</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:01:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Matthew Pizana</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiona's Gone ]]></title><description><![CDATA[When a corrupt former border cop is unexpectedly pushed into a congressional race, his troubled stepdaughter disappears with evidence that could destroy him, sending him on an obsessive hunt for the small-time criminal he believes is responsible. Please email me for more information or to read the screenplay]]></description><link>https://www.matthewpizana.com/post/fiona-s-gone</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a94b57221ca4b8be9694db2</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:59:02 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Matthew Pizana</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Weigh-Ins]]></title><description><![CDATA[The gym still smelled like varnish and rubber, same as it always had. Banners hung faded along the walls, curled at the edges, bragging about years gone by. Boys’ basketball, back when they’d gone to state. Girls’ volleyball too, sometimes good, always in the paper. But, that was before. The bleachers were pushed back now, paint chipped where kids had carved their initials in the side. The scoreboard had died on the vine long ago, numbers frozen in place from some game nobody remembered. The...]]></description><link>https://www.matthewpizana.com/post/the-weigh-ins</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8b8e774e12adafbf7df7af</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:21:51 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Matthew Pizana</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Here We Go]]></title><description><![CDATA[First blog. Let's see how ti goes.]]></description><link>https://www.matthewpizana.com/post/and-here-we-go</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8b883b4e12adafbf7deb86</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 23:54:37 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Matthew Pizana</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>