Guilty Pleasures: Ann Parker

Man With No Name vs. Mary Poppins…   I’ve been mulling over this idea of a “guilty pleasure movie” for a while now, as I dashed hither and thither.   The first one(s) that popped to mind were the spaghetti westerns of yore (mid-1960s vintage), most famously...

Guilty Pleasures: ROGER SMITH

The Nutty Professor – Jerry Lewis (1963) I first got to see The Nutty Professor as a toddler in Johannesburg in the sixties. South Africa had no television back then (the rabid Calvinists who formulated Apartheid liked to keep a tight lid on what their flock were...

Guilty Pleasures: Kathryn Casey

I Probably Shouldn’t Tell You This, But…. By Kathryn Casey My guilty pleasure? That’s a hard one. You see, I have a few. I won’t put reading in this category, since it never makes me feel guilty. With that exempt from the list, here are a few: Truly good dark...

Guilty Pleasures: Steve Hockensmith

You want a guilty pleasure? I’ll give you a guilty pleasure. I’ll give you a pleasure so guilty you could blackmail me with it. A pleasure so guilty it ought to get the electric chair. If you know me and have any respect for me, prepare yourself. Your image of me as a...

Guilty Pleasures: John Warburton

I’ll admit it, I liked the remake of Fright Night. For those of you that don’t know it, the original film was a camp horror classic from the Eighties. Neither film is actually great, but when it comes to camp classics I’ve found that you don’t have to be embarrassed,...