You’re reading Boy Movies, a newsletter about movies for boys. I was on (unannounced — it’s like that sometimes) hiatus last week, but today I’m returning to your inboxes with a long-awaited Michael Mann issue, which people have been requesting since the literal day I started this whole operation. It feels appropriate now that the Ferrari trailer has ripped and roared its way onto the world stage. (Someone free Adam Driver from the fake Italian accent PLEASE!!!)
We’re in this together. Fates intertwined. Cosmic coincidence.
Halfway through the movie Collateral, I opened up the Notes app on my phone, typed the words “michael mann and his little love stories,” and laughed at how right I was. Few are willing to say that about Collateral, Mann’s 2004 Tom Cruise-Jamie Foxx two-hander about a hitman (Cruise) who ropes a cab driver (Foxx) into a night of murder, which I know because no one ever told me. Col…
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