Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. In 1980, the director of The Exorcist and the star of The ...

William Friedkin is perhaps best known for his movies The French Connection and The Exorcist, but the late director also staged one of the most controversial queer-themed films of all time. The dark ...

In his new memoir Sonny Boy, Al Pacino says that he donated his salary from the controversial 1980 film Cruising to charity after he found the finished product “exploitative” of the LGBTQ+ community.

Discover What’s Streaming On: The 1980 thriller Cruising was fired up a flashpoint of controversy before even a foot of celluloid was shot. The project, after a long and peculiar gestation period, was ...

Nearly 45 years ago, Al Pacino knew his controversial 1980 film Cruising wouldn’t age well. In his new memoir Sonny Boy, the Oscar winner admitted he found the movie “exploitative” to the LGBTQ ...

Here’s something scary: Al Pacino never watched William Friedkin’s famed “The Exorcist” before working with the late auteur on “Cruising.” Pacino, who is now playing an exorcist in “The Ritual” ...

In the early months of 1980, William Friedkin's incendiary crime thriller CRUISING opened across the country to almost unanimously negative reviews. Friedkin's film centered around the activities of a ...