Al Podcino Lara Peters and Madeline Pritchard

Lara gets to utilise her English degree and her South London upbringing this week as we dig into The Local Stigmatic, Al's pet project during his on-screen hiatus. Terrible accents abound, bets are placed at the dawg track, and we explore the best site on the internet.

Digressions include Friends, David Thewlis, Basic Instinct 2, Withnail & I, Top Gun, Thief, NT Live, Yentl, Shakespeare, Martin McDonagh, Breakfast Wine, No Time to Die, Billy Magnussen, and Pulp Fiction.

Al Pacino by Bette Gordon & Betsy Sussler in BOMB Magazine
Patrick Willems: What Does CINEMATIC Really Mean?

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We're exploring middle-aged sexuality in the dying breaths of the erotic thriller this week as we discuss Sea of Love, Al's cinematic comeback after spending four years on Diane Keaton's sofa. New York is a character, John Goodman is a star, and Ellen Barkin is a top.

Digressions include Basic Instinct, Minnie and Moskowitz, Crimes of Passion, Body Heat, Michael Mann, Christopher Nolan, Monsters, Inc., Cars, and Paul Newman.

A "Sea of Love" Among Men by Nickolas Pappas

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Al’s flop era reaches its climax with the American Revolutionary War epic that, fittingly, nearly destroys the British film industry. He’ll never work in this town again, and this town is Norfolk: this week, Maddy and Lara discuss Hugh Hudson’s Revolution. Congress is coming!

Digressions include The Mission, First Cow, There Will Be Blood, Assassin’s Creed, Silence, Klaus Kinski, Tom Cruise, Winona Ryder, and Al’s long history of hat and scarf wearing. Maddy describes Chariots Of Fire as being about ‘vibes’, and Lara describes multiple things as ‘fertile’.

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Say hello to my little podcast! Friend of the show Ciaran joins Maddy and Lara to talk about the immense cultural impact and deluge of Hawaiian shirts in Brian De Palma’s gangster odyssey Scarface. He also pitches us on Isabelle Huppodcast, which we encourage all our listeners to support.

Digressions include Ghostbusters, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Any Given Sunday, Married to the Mob, the Kardashian-West family, Timothee Chalamet, The Lonely Island’s ‘Jack Sparrow’, and assorted titles from the filmography of Domhnall Gleeson.

Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood

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Al invokes Lara's wrath this week as we discuss his first true comedic turn (and his entry into DILF canon) in Arthur Hiller's Author! Author! with dear friend Aleisha Murphy.

Digressions include Marriage Story, Shakespeare, An Unmarried Woman, Kramer Vs Kramer, All That Jazz, The Muppets, Mrs Doubtfire, Something's Gotta Give, Robert De Niro's late-period comedies, Shark Tale, the Jack Black oeuvre, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, and Dead Poets Society.

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On this week's episode we're joined by dear friend Frances Harvey to discuss gaze, gays, and various forms of penetration in William Friedkin's unfairly maligned S&M thriller Cruising.

Digressions include Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Rope, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tom of Finland, Blow Out, Zodiac, Fifty Shades of Grey, Possession, Poison, and In the Cut.

The Mineshaft by Jack Fritscher
The Cruising Controversy by Edward Guthmann
Cruising: Some Afterthoughts/Views from an Outsider by Warren Sonbert
Cruising by D. A. Miller
Rawhide by Melissa Anderson
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Cruising the Dead River

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