by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 21, 2012 | Features, Films
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 8, 2012 | Films
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 1, 2012 | Features, Films
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 25, 2012 | Features, Films
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 18, 2012 | Features, Films
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,...