by Crimespree Magazine | May 18, 2011 | Films, Guilty Pleasures
I know how these guilty pleasure posts are supposed to work. I make the argument that no pleasure should be considered guilty, then go on to name a movie that isn’t actually that terrible – and in fact underscores whatever meager badass credentials I have. I’m not...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 11, 2011 | Films, Guilty Pleasures
I like my cheese spicy with extra gunfire, so my choice for Guilty Pleasure would be “Desperado,” the 1995 hit with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. The movie is the middle episode in the “El Mariachi” trilogy, directed by Robert Rodriguez. In...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 4, 2011 | Films, Guilty Pleasures
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 27, 2011 | Films, Guilty Pleasures
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 20, 2011 | Films, Guilty Pleasures
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...
