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The Guilty Pleasures
We need to be clear from the beginning here. We’re not talking about bad movies you can admit you like. These are the movies you know you’re going to be teased for admitting you like it, and you don’t...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “Point Break”
For years, people have told you that you should be embarrassed for liking particular movies. They might question your taste in film because you couldn’t stop giggling at Encino Man. You appreciate...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “Batman Forever”
Warner Brothers just announced that Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway have joined the cast of The Dark Knight Rises. Hardy will be playing the main villain Bane, while Hathaway will be playing the...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “Ricochet”
Ricochet (1991 | Rated R) Flickchart Ranking: #3835 Times Ranked: 2606 Win Percentage: 30% How Many Top-20′s: 1 Users It’s right around the time that John Lithgow and Jesse Ventura equip themselves...
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The Guilty Pleasures: Josie and the Pussycats
It seems that without fail, I can never look away from this film once it appears on my TV screen. The appeal of this movie hurts me to the core; it brings me to a shame that would make Mother Teresa...
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The Guilty Pleasures: Dragon Edition
Dragons. Are there any cooler creatures in all of mythology? Unfortunately, in the world of celluloid, these great creatures of imagination have not really gotten their due. (At least, not in...
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The Guilty Pleasures: Armageddon
As Mike McDermott once said, “I feel like Buckner walking back into Shea.” That’s exactly how I feel writing this article. It’s been a while since I wrote one of these. My first two, I talked about...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “ABBA: The Movie”
In 1977, the motion picture Star Wars changed popular culture forever. What few people realize is that there was a far more culturally and artistically significant film released that same year: You...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “The Omega Man”
I’m going to describe a movie. It’s a sci-fi movie from the early seventies. Charlton Heston is in it. He is the last man on Earth. He wears a track suit and speeds around post-apocalyptic L.A. in...
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Guilty Pleasures Holiday Edition: ‘Mixed Nuts’
When filmmaker Nora Ephron brings together an all-star cast led by Steve Martin, you expect something terrific. Mixed Nuts was Ephron’s follow-up to her smash success Sleepless in Seattle, and when it...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “Armageddon”
As Mike McDermott once said, “I feel like Buckner walking back into Shea.” That’s exactly how I feel writing this article. It’s been a while since I wrote one of these. My first two, I talked about...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “ABBA: The Movie”
In 1977, the motion picture Star Wars changed popular culture forever. What few people realize is that there was a far more culturally and artistically significant film released that same year: You...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “Cabin Boy”
Okay, first of all, there is a point I must make clear: I do not believe in guilty pleasures. The idea, that we should feel bad for enjoying a piece of pop culture, is a social construct that I...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “Undercover Brother”
As always, I like to introduce pieces under this category by submitting to the reader that no one should ever feel guilty about enjoying a movie, or any piece of entertainment, for that matter. That’s...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “Death to Smoochy”
“I’m Rainbow f**kin’ Randolph! Kids love me!” If there’s ever a quote to set the tone for what follows in a film, this one is absolutely perfect. I don’t know how many times my wife and I have watched...
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The Guilty Pleasures: Mystery Men
“What about Death Man?” “Death Man is dead.” A world in which Greg Kinnear plays the biggest superhero in town is a strange one indeed. Released in 1999 and directed by Kinka Usher, Mystery Men tells...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “Congo”
In the early 1990s, author Michael Crichton found massive success when he became the only writer in American history to have the #1 film (Jurassic Park), television series (ER) and novel (Disclosure)...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “G.I. Joe: Retaliation”
I’m here today to make a case for the under appreciated G.I Joe: Retaliation, released in 2013 and directed by Jon M. Chu. Is it the best comic book movie out there? No. But that doesn’t mean it...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “Sleepaway Camp”
Robert Hiltzik’s enduring 1983 slasher curiosity Sleepaway Camp provides what every budding fourth-grade gorehound with a jean jacket and a Huey Lewis tape in his backpack hoped a horror movie that...
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The Guilty Pleasures: “Deathgasm” and “Unfriended”
The heavy metal horror action of Deathgasm (2015) racks up a body count. Horror films don’t chart especially well on Flickchart. Only twelve fall within the top 250, and 76 in the top 1000. For...
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