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Guilty Pleasures: Purple Rain

 eorge Orwell was wrong. 1984 wasn’t the year of Big Brother, it was the year of the little brother from Minneapolis, Prince. After the talented one had been toiling in the trenches (surprised anyone could see him down t...
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Guilty Pleasures: Star Fleet

If you were a kid in 1982, or maybe old enough to know better but didn't care, you probably rushed downstairs on a Saturday morning to watch a Japanese space adventure puppet show, influenced by Thunderbirds and Star Wars. Welc...
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Guilty Pleasures — Highlander

Highlander, this month's Guilty pleasure, takes the Joseph Campbell hero myth and spins it in a dazzling, centuries spanning, rock video styled fantasy. Tim Pelan attends the gathering.
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Guilty Pleasures : Hulk

Ang Lee = Hulk = Crouching green giant, hidden subtext. Welcome to Hulk, this months SMASHING Guilty Pleasure!
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Guilty Pleasures #6: Judge Dredd

Turning much-loved comic books into films is always a risky business. Tim Pelan argues a case for Judge Dredd
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Guilty Pleasures #5 – Dune

Long before Spice World there was Dune, the original Spice world of Arrakis, scene of the crime for this month's Guilty Pleasures.
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Guilty Pleasure #4 – 1941

  o read critical reaction at the time of its 1979 release, 1941 is “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing“. So why is it a Guilty pleasure? The story, a screwball farce based on...
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Guilty Pleasures #3 – Daredevil

What do I want? JUSTICE!!" Justice for Daredevil, the unfairly maligned superhero flick that is this month's Guilty Pleasure.
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Guilty Pleasures #2: The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, all in the valley of ignominy rode the Extraordinary Gentlemen. Is it really all that bad though? Tim Pelan defends the indefensible.
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Guilty Pleasures #1 — The Avengers

Oh what a glorious piece of tosh is The Avengers, how noble in intent, how infinite in faults. Yet, despite it's many faults, why is it such a guilty pleasure? Tim Pelan stands up and defends the indefensible.
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