Al Pacino admits that his 1980 crime movie “Cruising” was “exploitative” — but “didn’t see it as that when I was doing it.” The William Friedkin thriller about a serial killer targeting gay men on the ...

Al Pacino revealed in his new memoir that he donated his paycheck from the 1980 movie Cruising because he felt the film proved to be "exploitative" of the LGBTQ+ community. Pacino, who was 39 at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Al Pacino donated his entire salary from an “exploitative” gay film to charity. The 84-year-old Hollywood icon wrote in his new memoir ‘Sonny Boy’ that his donations were anonymous and had never ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Pacino infamously had a contentious dynamic with the late auteur, who died in 2023. “I didn’t even see ‘The Exorcist’ in my life,” Pacino said, adding, “It’s a great film, I hear. I should see it. I ...

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 ...

Al Pacino reveals he's never seen The Exorcist despite playing one in his new movie, The Ritual. The classic 1973 horror film was directed by William Friedkin, who had some unkind things to say about ...

Ryan is a reporter at The Advocate, and a graduate of New York University Tisch's Department of Dramatic Writing, with a focus in television writin ...