Guilt, Shame, Secrets & Pleasure: A Kind of Inner Heat I know most guest authors who comment on this issue discuss delightful obsessions with the tacky, pulpy, retro or just plain bad. I’d like to take a slightly different approach, if I may. Sex will be...
I have to admit my Guilty Pleasure is Terry Gilliam movies, ones he directs and writes. My all-time favorite of his is essentially a heist movie, and thus is appropriate for this blog: Time Bandits (1981). I have a warm regard for the bumbling dwarves, who while...
Today, Victor Gischler steps up to admit to one of his dark pleasures. Seeing how Victor is one of the baddest, hard-boiledest dudes on the planet, one would think this will be the kind of thing that leaves us with nightmares for years. GUILTY PLEASURES: ABBA...
THE MISADVENTURES OF MARGARET When I'm home alone and no one will know what I'm doing, I throw THE MISADVENTURES OF MARGARET into the DVD player. Haven't heard of it? Not surprising, given that it wasn't shown in (many? any?) theatres. And what's a better...
Having sampled earlier entries in this fine series, I don't feel that guilty about my contribution, the 1989 mystery/romantic comedy Her Alibi. Struggling P.I. novelist Phil Blackwood (Tom Selleck) sits in on a court session where Romanian refugee Nina (Paulina...
Ok folks, it is time for Patrick Swayze's second appearance on GP. I am not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing. One could say that clearly his films have a spot in the hearts of the Crimespree family, but they are being considered guilty pleasures. Jeremy...
