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One man’s guilty pleasure is another’s palpable greatness

Where Marcus Berkmann commits professional suicide and admits he likes Abba – and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

The film critic Anne Billson wrote a typically pugnacious piece recently about the phrase ‘guilty pleasures’, which has spread like Japanese knotweed beyond its origins in pop music and taken root throughout popular culture. In film a guilty pleasure would be something like Four Weddings and a Funeral, which we’re not ‘supposed’ to like because it’s not La Règle du Jeu, but which we do like very much because it’s fab.

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