This time out, Gali has picked Brian De Palma's classic 1983 gangster movie, SCARFACE. Al Pacino inhabits one of his most iconic roles as the ambitious Cuban immigrant Tony Montana. We follow as he scales the drug trade in Miami, from lowly enforcer to gilded kingpin. Put on your dancing shoes, turn up the neon, and rush rush to the yeyo: with ethnologically questionable casting and a killer soundtrack, will Gali and Devlin get high on their own supply, or grab the chainsaw and cut the movie to pieces?

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With the first pick, Devlin chooses Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Hot on the heels of Bram Stoker's Dracula, we examine this obstensibly faithful adaptation (hence the authorial namecheck!)Genius young physician-in-training Victor Frankenstein (Branagh himself) uses personal tragedy as the catalyst for his quest to defy death itself, by creating an entirely new life, but soon finds that there are consequences to dabbling in the realms of the gods.Featuring floppy dancing, quasi-incestuous relationships, John Cleese's giant teeth and Robert De Niro as Sloth from the Goonies's angry older brother, will Gali and Devlin find a jolt of pure electricity, or just a table full of decaying meat parts?

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Drawing on a decade-plus friendship whose roots stretch back to their film-obsessed student days, Gali and Devlin cast an eye backwards to the movies that kickstarted their love of film.In their Throwback series, each will take turns picking a title that they consider seminal to their youth, and watch again to determine whether they wasted their precious childhoods sitting in the dark with these VHS tapes, or if their movie touchstones still hold up today.Join them, and their occasional special guest co-hosts, as they take a deep dive in to their collective cultural memory bin and root around for an answer to the question: "why do we love movies?"

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