Guilty Pleasures

Bim Adewunmi reads from a “Sweet Valley” book in the Studio 360 studios; the first “Sweet Valley High” book, by Francine Pascal.

Guilty Pleasure: ‘Sweet Valley High’

Guilty Pleasures

How “Sweet Valley High,” a series of YA novels about blonde twins in California, made an impact on a schoolgirl in Nigeria.

Look at this photograph.

Guilty Pleasure: Tig Notaro defends ‘Photograph’ by Nickelback

Guilty Pleasures
A moist chocolate cake.

Guilty Pleasure: The word ‘moist’

Guilty Pleasures
Bill Nighy as Billy Mack with Video Vixens in “Love Actually.”

Guilty Pleasure: ‘Love Actually’

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Self portrait by Lynda Barry, and a “Family Circus” cartoon by Jeff Keane featuring Lynda Barry.

Guilty Pleasure: Lynda Barry steps into ‘The Family Circus’

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The 1993 romantic drama “Untamed Heart,” starring Marisa Tomei and Christian Slater.

Guilty Pleasure: Hari Kondabolu loves ‘Untamed Heart’

Guilty Pleasures

The stand-up comedian reveals his gateway guilty pleasure.

Bim Adewunmi reads from a “Sweet Valley” book in the Studio 360 studios; the first “Sweet Valley High” book, by Francine Pascal.

Guilty Pleasure: ‘Sweet Valley High’

Guilty Pleasures

How “Sweet Valley High,” a series of YA novels about blonde twins in California, made an impact on a schoolgirl in Nigeria.

Director Werner Herzog and former leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in the new documentary “Meeting Gorbachev.”

Werner Herzog on the art of narration, Gorbachev and cat videos

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The craft behind Herzog’s unmistakable voice-over.

The family portrait in "The Godfather: Part III"

Guilty Pleasure: ‘The Godfather: Part III’

Guilty Pleasures

One brave critic not only defends, but praises Francis Ford Coppola’s much maligned sequel.

Luke Macfarlane and Candace Cameron Bure in “A Shoe Addict’s Christmas.”

Guilty Pleasure: The anthropological whiteness of Hallmark Channel Christmas movies

Guilty Pleasures

Why a black Muslim prison reform activist became an aficionado of the all-white world of Hallmark Christmas movies.