by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 12, 2011 | Features, Films
BLOOD OF HEROES 1989 Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Delroy Lindo, Vincent D’Onofrio Written and directed by David Peoples Okay, there it is. My post-apocalyptic road warrior guilty pleasure. I love this movie. Categorically, I love straight-line extrapolations into...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 5, 2011 | Features, Films
Editor’s note: After a month plus hiatus, Guilty Pleasures is back! We have a very nice line-up in the coming weeks. SJ Rozan, Megan Abbott, Toni Kelner are just a few of the talented souls that will be joining us. But today, Kelli Stanley steps into the...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 7, 2011 | Features, Films
The reason second chances are so riveting in the movies isn’t that they offer hope. Hope doesn’t work in the audience’s viscera. Redemption doesn’t, either. They’re operations of the spirit; they don’t inhabit the digestive tract. A second chance is the frightening...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 31, 2011 | Features, Films
A Guilty Pleasure is an oxymoron, of course, since no true pleasure should make you feel guilty, but we all have enough skeletons in our closet to make a palaeontologist envious. And I’m rattling mine now! Home Alone (1990), Home Alone 2- Lost In New York (1992) Make...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 25, 2011 | Features, Films, Guilty Pleasures
Ten Reasons I Hate Myself for Liking 10 Things I Hate about You by Jimmy Callaway 1. Leave Cheap Trick Outta This Y’know what, 1990s? I’ve really got to take my hat off to you. You followed a decade that produced such atrocities as Paula Abdul and Whitesnake, and you...