Fatal Attractions

The gang are joined by special guest, critic and author Mark Searby (@Mark_Searby), for a look at the film that served as a turning point in the career of Al Pacino... Harold Becker's Sea of Love.

Visit Mark Searby's website for more info on his work and book, Al Pacino: The Movies Behind the Man

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The gang returns to the world of damaged psyches and body horror as they look at the troubled twin world in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers.

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The gang return to the world of 1980's Brian De Palma, rich in visual storytelling, decadent morality, and questionable social perspectives in genre giant Dressed to Kill.

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The gang head to the wealthy side of town where boats sail, booze is drunk, and implausible murder schemes are plotted in Bob Swaim's Masquerade.

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The gang head on down to New Orleans for a tale of corrupt cops and sultry nights in Jim McBride's The Big Easy.

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The gang finally get a look at another of the few films revolving around two female characters: one the femme fatale who kills for money; the other the cop obsessed with stopping her in Bob Rafelson's Black Widow.

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The gang go uncharacteristically contemporary by checking out the '80s-set psychosexual thriller recently added to Netflix in the shape of Wash Westmoreland's Earthquake Bird.

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The gang head to the beginning of the 80s to look at the fashionably hollow lifestyle of one of God's lonely men in Paul Schrader's American Gigolo.

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The gang head to an early success for writer Joe Eszterhas, which set the template for his bigger successes to come. Courtroom drama, murder and intrigue in Richard Marquand's Jagged Edge.

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The gang go period by looking at the tale of pre-Revolutionary French aristocracy and their various shenanigans of exploitation, sadism and love in Stephen Frears's Dangerous Liaisons.

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