Guilty Pleasures: Jeff Cohen

THE MAN WITH BOGART'S  FACE This 1980 far-from-a-classic is also known in some circles as Sam Marlow, Private Eye, which is the title of the novel upon which it is based. Exactly as the (original) title suggests, the story surrounds a man (Robert Sacchi) who has...

GUILTY PLEASURES: Hank Phillippi Ryan

Talk about making lemonade. A recent bout with kind-o-like-the-flu resulted in a completely unplanned Hank-festival of guilty pleasure movies. Here’s how it happened. At the same time the deadline gods had made me incapable of thinking (let alone getting any...

Guilty Pleasures: Ayo Onatade

I don't remember exactly when I first had the pleasure of meeting Ayo, only that it was at a Bouchercon. I was wowed by her passion, charm, energy, brains and loveliness. Since then, I am happy to say she is a fellow Crimespree staff member and pal. Jeremy My film...

Guilty Pleasures: Rosemary Harris

Well , Patti set the bar pretty high last week with An Affair to Remember. Yes, it’s a tearjerker but it has stood the test of time and with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr it has a certain cachet and a place in film history. I considered upgrading my original G.P....

Guilty Pleasures: Patti Abbott

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls:Welcome to the first installment of GUILTY PLEASURES. Each Wednesday, one of our fellow members of the crime community will talk about a film they consider to be a guilty pleasure.We start things off with our Movie Maven Patti...

GUILTY PLEASURES

Gather round, my crime fiction family, now is the time to unburden your soul. Deep down in the darkest recesses of your being lies guilt...guilt from films that you would never admit to watching, much less enjoying. But the time has come for you to confess your...