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I write about cars, movies, & cars in movies. words for Hagerty, Arrow Video, Empire Magazine, Polygon, StudioCanal UK, Second Sight, Southwest Review, Bright Wall/Dark Room, etc. https://linktr.ee/scillapage

Gosling's Driver on the beach at night, standing against an almost pitch-black backdrop punctuated by three lights, wearing his ivory jacket and scary stuntman mask

Gosling's Driver in a motel room - on the phone, wearing the quilted ivory bomber jacket with gold scorpion. he's center frame, looking out the window, his face in the reflection, a little bit of purple neon light hitting his right elbow. a lamp on his left.

The Driver, seen from behind, with a sleeping child's head (Benicio) on his shoulder as he walks down their apartment building corridor, a wall sconce on either side of them

a wide shot of a dry LA River with a Chevy Impala at its center during magic hour - dissolving into Gosling's The Driver, seen from behind, with a sleeping child's head (Benicio) on his shoulder as he walks down their apartment building corridor

MM: Were you surprised by the success of Darkman?
SR: I was, because Universal told us it tested really badly. Some people rated it the worst film they'd ever seen...or maybe there was one film that beat us and kept Darkman from achieving that honor. We were one of the worst-scoring pictures in Universal's history. And then there was the problem with the editor Universal gave me. About eight weeks into the rough cut, when he wasn't following my storyboards and saying, "Please, you have to let me cut it myself," he came to me and said he couldn't finish, nothing would cut together, and he was having a nervous break-down. It was a nightmare. He had a nervous breakdown and left.
And then there were the other problems: the hero has a hideous face, he doesn't get the girl, and he's a terrible failure at everything he does. But Universal came up with a brilliant marketing campaign, starting way ahead of the film's release, with this silhouette and the question "Who is Darkman?" That was a stroke of genius, because they took the fact that audiences didn't know who this Darkman was and...

Slightly elevated, distant nighttime view of densely packed skyscrapers, columns of silver and gunmetal and liquid gold, the lights in their windows and their reflective surfaces make them appear to glitter and glow jewel-like, with colors from pale green to neon red and a little cobalt blue. The causeway is visible on the far left, and below it, just a half circle of dark blue water where the bay appears packed with boats.

Darkman as a silhouette in a trench and hat, holding his hand up against noirish diagonal shafts of light coming from above. toward the bottom in Japanese, it reads "Who is Darkman?" in big orange/red letters, and below that, in English and a smaller green font, it reads "Who is Darkman?"

screenshot from the Drive of Ryan Gosling leaning against a car, dressed like a cop in sunglasses and uniform, holding a cup of coffee. Bryan Cranston's character animatedly explaining something to him. Gosling's gold name badge says 'McCall'

screenshot from Drive: aerial view of Los Angeles at night, skyscrapers and highways and streets glittering with golden iridescent lights, caption reads "[NIGHTCALL playing]"

Data sitting down, speaking to Geordi La Forge, who is standing on the left side of the frame. caption reads, "You may experience the emptiness with me if you wish."

Adam Brody's Abe Applebaum (looking slightly beaten, bloody above the brow) and Sophie Nélisse's Caroline in a 1990 Chrysler LeBaron sand-colored convertible

Bruce Campbell's Ash in Evil Dead II, filthy & covered in blood, staring into a mirror. caption reads, "I'm fine"

Debbie Harry in Videodrome, caption reads "Don't be afraid to let your body die"

a bloody Tim Roth wearing a suit in Reservoir Dogs, sweaty and writhing around in a nice white (& also bloodied) leather backseat of a car. caption reads "I'm okay"

Last Action Hero action figure, still in package, with a cartoon image of Arnie and Danny on the box. the figure itself is dressed up like Laurence Olivier's Hamlet except that the sleeves have been ripped off his doublet (black with gold accents, a purple mantle, linked gold epaulets) to expose his enormous biceps. he comes with a sword and dagger, a belt with grenades, and Yorick's skull

phone with little "Arnold Schwarzenegger's birthday" alert at the bottom (with b&w photo of Bill Paxton's Severen)

old post from kendrick lobstar that reads "mother of god" with a google search for "how tall is Goofy" and the answer is 8'2" and there's a little image of Goofy looking as surprised as we are. my quote tweet reads "Goofy is one of the Great Old Ones, known by his acolytes as Master of the Endless Void, He Who Devours All in the Dark, & The Thing That Should Not Be"

the Anthony Adams rubbing his hands & licking his lips behind a tree meme

a dusty Arnold Schwarzenegger looking absolutely fried, haunted, and slightly burnt at the end of Predator. something is a little bit on fire behind him.

The Giant )Carel Struycken) from Twin Peaks against a red curtain backdrop, caption reads "It is happening again."

Bruce Campbell's Ash looking horrified about the fact the bottom half of his face has stretched downward to about three times its normal length

letterboxd recent activity, left to right: Drive, The Nice Guys, Frenzy, True Lies

deep blue frame of De Niro as Neil McCauley in Heat meditating on the ocean from his spare apartment. seen from behind, wearing a suit, arm leaning against a column a la Alex Colville's 1967 painting Pacific

Bellini-esque depressed Ben Affleck standing on the shore with his arms behind his back, in a blue towel wrapped around his waist and nothing else, looking meditative/melancholic as he gazes at the ocean/into the void

the Anthony Adams rubbing his hands & licking his lips behind a tree meme

Shane Black and Anthony Bagarozzi mic'd up on stage at the Culver Theater

closeup on Sam Raimi behind a spiderweb-esque net, his hands up against it, illuminated/tinted with blue light against a hot pink background

purple-tinted wide shot of Arnold Schwarzenegger in a cemetery sitting down staring at a skull (ostensibly meditating on poor Yorick). caption reads "ANNOUNCER: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,"

head of purple cauliflower surrounded by leaves, caption reads "'DEPURPLE' CAULIFLOWER Ravishing color and buttery-sweet flavor"

henchman seen from behind entering bright white men's bathroom with Arnie in a trench at the urinal on the left and another henchman at the sink on the right

danglin peppers: 2 skinny 'first taste sweet peppers,' one is a bright orange, the other is smaller/underripe and green

the Terminator/T-800 unsuccessfully learning how to smile, just kind of pulling his lips back from his teeth

adorable chubby little baby wandering in front of adult legs, brown-haired with denim overalls and a li'l plaid shirt.

letterboxd recent activity, left to right: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Terminator, Pumping Iron, Commando

Michael Biehn's Kyle Reese hiding in a photo booth, the black curtain pulled back to reveal him holding a gun. booth itself looks like a steel box with Photographs in blue neon above it

extreme closeup on perspiring bicep with plaid shirt over his shoulder/under the big tree trunk

Jane Levy's Mia crouching in front of the Evil Dead cabin, which is on fire and a little smoky

closeup on/overhead view of a ding-dong's hands tearing open the trash bag covering the Naturom Demento aka Necronomicon with his hands, clipped barbed wire off to the sides

"SAM NEILL
- If you were to commit a murder, how would you do it?
- It's got to be big! No slipping something into someone's drink, that's just pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a stain on the road. There's probably a couple of people I'd put under a steamroller, but I won't say who they are, otherwise when they see a steamroller coming their way they'll be on full alert. And steamrollers don't go very fast..."

Sam Neill in The Hunt for Red October on the far left of the frame, inside the submarine with a bright blue light to the left of his face, some dudes behind him on the right

"It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life.
The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free. They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care.
More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss."

a grinning, delighted-looking Kurt Russell sitting and relaxing with a giant glass of wine on a pretty old brocade settee

a cop with an orange mustache on the right side of the frame, wearing a light blue uniform, an oppressively large black peaked cap, and shades, his partner in the white police car on the bottom left side of the frame. background is pure scrub with a little bit of dust and a sliver of blue sky. caption reads "Meat is hung"

a dingo named Boswell (played by Killer) sitting in the passenger seat of a truck (center-right of frame), looking to the left, caption reads "With full devout courage of sundry folk"

title card for ROADGAMES (center frame, white text) in front of a solid wall of hanging meat

my letterboxd review of The Wailing: "hadn't seen this since 2016 and was surprised by how much of it I'd forgotten. like the movie starts out so much funnier than I'd remembered, it makes the terrifying shit that comes later even more effective by setting up a pleasant (and pleasantly spooky) sense of normalcy before its tonal/literal descent into hell. one of my favorite horror joints of the last decade, would probably pair well with the slightly less dread-inducing Exhuma.

I also hope the girl sitting in my row who kept screaming at everything (e.g. a kabuki mask, a door opening) and then bounced before the Q&A is okay."

movie theater marquee that reads Vidiots above it (blue letters with pink/red lines behind it), and THE WAILING on it (in shades of blue, except for a red A), and lots of multicolored little round lights below it

extreme closeup on filthy, sweaty Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness

Pauline Kael bot: "[THIEF] I hated this movie from beginning to end...Is grandiloquent masochism so appealing to men that they'll buy this cosmic drizzle? (I think it's unlikely that many women will.) It's the fantasy of being the best of men—the toughest and most anguished. (1981)"

shot of the fruit cellar's interior with Ash/Bruce Campbell on the left, seen from behind, out of focus - we really just see his hand holding pages from the Necronomicon. he's facing a spooky wooden door with Krueger's bladed glove hanging from the wall beside it.

letterboxd recent activity, left to right: Evil Dead II, The Evil Dead, Bullitt, The Last of the Mohicans

an open Necronomicon floating against a sea of blood, there are some arms sketched on the left page (normal human arm vs rotting demon arms?) and on the opposite page, a ripped nude demon with wings a la William Blake's Red Dragon