Scott Ryan is the author of The Last Days of Letterman, Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared, Lost Highway: The Fist of Love, and the best seller Moonlighting: An Oral History. He hosts the YouTube series It’s Our Time and Tiger Talk, is the copresident of Fayetteville Mafia Press and Tucker DS Press, and is the managing editor and creative director of The Blue Rose Magazine and co-creator (along with JB Minton) of The Red Room Podcast (2011-2023). Yes, he does collect vinyl records, is against streaming, and thinks the internet made everything worse.
In The Last Decade of Cinema, Generation X Critic Scott Ryan picks twenty-five unique movies released in the nineties and analyzes their impact on pop culture and why they still matter today, from Goodfellas to Magnolia and a ton of classics. This thoughtful book conveys how the fall of 35MM and the demise of the video rental market resulted in fewer movies being made that took risks. Interviews with Natasha Gregson Wagner (Two Girls and a Guy), Alexander Payne (Citizen Ruth), Helen Childress (Reality Bites), Tyger Williams (Menace II Society), and Patricia Arquette (True Romance).
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"Perfect Doesn't Mean Better": An Interview with Scott Ryan About His Book 'The Last Decade of Cinema