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Fatal Attraction (1987), plus a very nerdy chat with Sam Raimi

Quite the double dose in this episode of Film Stories. Firstly, the story of how Fatal Attraction came from the roots of a short film at the start of the 1980s. How directors such as John Carpenter turned it down. And how the infamous battle over its ending led to one of the icon ...  Show more

In conversation with Ric Roman Waugh | Shelter, Statham, the freezing cold and more

Ric Roman Waugh has directed films such as the newly-released Shelter, along with Greenland, Greenland: Migration, Kandahar and more. And in this far-reaching conversation with Simon Brew, he takes us through his latest film and body of work. Not least the unusual connection betw ...  Show more

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