{"id":346,"date":"2013-10-15T08:09:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T21:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=346"},"modified":"2013-10-15T08:09:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T21:09:23","slug":"review-cruising-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/10\/15\/review-cruising-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Cruising (1980)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since just seeing this film recently I can&#8217;t stop raving about it to people. On the surface<a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cruising-1980-Al-Pacino-pic-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-347 alignright\" alt=\"Cruising 1980 Al Pacino pic 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cruising-1980-Al-Pacino-pic-3-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> <em>Cruising<\/em> is a film about a Psychopath murdering homosexuals in the gay scene. Al Pacino plays a heterosexual cop (lots of bedroom scenes with Karen Allen to confirm this!) assigned to go undercover and find the killer.<\/p>\n<p>This film pulls very few punches when it comes to depicting gay bars and the shenanigans that consenting male adults get up to in said bars, so if your a bit squeamish about being exposed to the gay leather S &amp; M scene, maybe give the film a miss. However if you want to see an absolutely brilliant film by\u00a0William Friedkin (also Director of <em>The Exorcist<\/em> and <em>The French Connection<\/em>) and can deal with sometimes confronting imagery give it a go.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">I will not spoil the ending for you, but the realisation at the end of the film will you leave you thinking and wondering for days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001243\/?ref_=tt_ov_dr\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since just seeing this film recently I can&#8217;t stop raving about it to people. On the surface Cruising is a film about a Psychopath murdering homosexuals in the gay scene. Al Pacino plays a heterosexual cop (lots of bedroom scenes with Karen Allen to confirm this!) assigned to go undercover and find the killer. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/10\/15\/review-cruising-1980\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Cruising (1980)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}