VERY obviously a new upstarts script. You cant just mention "Mr. Majestyk" on the off-hand like that.
Maybe the most romanticism of roadside polaroid americana that Tarantino ever got and thats largely thanks to Tony Scott. Only other person to capture it so neatly would have either been Demme or Wenders but the script is too gauche for them. Scott can handle it. His Don Simpson and Shane Black experience had toughened him by this point so all the pernicious…

For ages Ive just been reading books on films or actors, so recently I took a break and decided to fill my head with total soft-serve garbage: Ive been reading Tom Clancy novels. In a beautiful turn of serendipity, this M:I reminded me alot of those novels. Not just the nu-cold war stratagems and military hardware races, but its structure. Especially at the start, it has all these clunky-but-useful small four-page chapters that interlock and build a frame to lay…

hot pink late night phone calls on transparent phones. supermarket murals. queer dysfunction and TV hum-soaked confusion.
disillusioned gay teens wandering through a gen-x desolation posturing and fucking and over confidently stating The Facts. Ghosts of society left to die and be dead. being a teenager is hard enough, but being a queer teenage nihilist, left to wander art installations and industrial concerts and car parks and gas stations and shit jobs looking for love in Bush's Conservative America? fuck…