The Good-Bad series, my exploration of movies that are irresistible in spite of themselves, is perhaps the pinnacle of this tendency. I treat movies such as “Grease 2,” “Batman & Robin,” “Practical ...

I have a confession to make: I love listening to bad music. This realization came to me a few months ago, while I was working on an obituary for the guitarist Steve Cropper and relistened to his 1980 ...