Guilt and Guts When Jeremy asked me to contribute an essay about a guilty pleasure, I was happy to do it, but afterwards, as I began to think about it, I realized I don’t really have any. Guilt, like shame and fear and envy and hate, is a negative, mostly useless...
Directed and Written by Abbas KiarostamiStars:Juliet Binoche, James MillerIn French, Italian and English with English subtitlesNote the three languages mentioned above. I felt like I was listening to or reading this movie in at least three languages. Every time I...
I’ve written twice on my blog about one of my favorite Guilty Pleasures, and I’m happy to be able to write about it again here. It’s a movie called The Good Humor Man, and it stars Jack Carson and Lola Albright. I saw it first when I was eight or nine years old, which...
Directed by Duncan Jones Written by Ben Ripley Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright Sometimes Hollywood gets it right and this is a perfect example of it. I must admit upfront I am a sucker for GROUNDHOG DAY and its conceit that...
Guilty isn't really a word I much associate with the movies. (Music is another story. I have CDs of artists I liked when I was an adolescent that I don't even let my wife know about.) Maybe porn would have qualified once, but even that doesn't inspire guilt any...
Written and Directed by Tom McCarthyStarring; Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Bobby Carnavale, Alex Shaffer, Jeffrey Tambor, Burt Young, Melanie LynskeyI saw this movie at my local art house, elbowed in between two foreign language films. This seemed strange to me because...
