-I feel like Scott Ryan could have written this directly to me and others in our generation who have basically `given up- on movies. It is at once tribute and eulogy, so bittersweet.- - Screenwriter Helen Childress (Reality Bites)-The nineties are lucky to have Scott Ryan.- - Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner (Two Girls and a Guy, Lost Highway) Ah, the nineties. Movies were something in those days. We-re talking about a decade that began with GoodFellas and ended with Magnolia, with such films as Malcolm X, Before Sunrise, and Clueless arriving somewhere in between. Stories, characters, and writing were king; IP, franchise movies, and supersaturated superhero flicks were still years away. Or so says Scott Ryan, the iconoclastic author of The Last Days of Letterman and Moonlighting: An Oral History, who here turns his attention to The Last Decade of Cinema-the prolific 1990s. Ryan, who watched just about every film released during the decade when he was a video store clerk in a small town
