- John Hansen
- May 8, 2025
What summer 2025 movies are worth getting off your couch for?
Anecdotally, this looks like the most loaded summer of movies in a long time, possibly ever. The big franchises are supplemented by surprising legacy comedy
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- John Hansen
- March 2, 2025
A baffling mystery: Why has there never been a Continental Op TV series?
One of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the history of mystery TV is: Why has there never been a Continental Op TV series? The unnamed
- John Hansen
- December 31, 2024
John’s top 10 movies of 2024
Looking at my top 10, the surprisingly (but maybe it shouldn’t be) prevailing theme is metaphysics. We live in a decade when time seems to
- John Hansen
- December 30, 2024
John’s top 10 TV shows of 2024
Prestige miniseries and streaming franchise “content” ruled the roost, but traditional network TV surprisingly hung on to life this year – even if the format
- John Hansen
- October 31, 2023
Such sights to show you: All 11 ‘Hellraiser’ films, ranked
“Hellraiser” is an oddball among horror franchises, starting with idiosyncratic gore-horror from the writings of Clive Barker, ranging into straight-to-video films where Pinhead (Doug Bradley
- John Hansen
- October 12, 2023
Get out! A ranking of the 11 primary ‘Amityville Horror’ movies
Among all the horror franchises with endless sequels and reboots and knockoffs, none can compete with the “Amityville” series (to use the word “series” loosely)
- John Hansen
- October 4, 2023
All 10 ‘Exorcist’ movies, TV seasons and books, ranked
On Oct. 6, the “Exorcist” franchise will return in a big way for the 50th anniversary legacy sequel “The Exorcist: Believer.” It comes from the
- John Hansen
- July 30, 2023
All 6 of Agatha Christie’s Mary Westmacott novels, ranked
Agatha Christie’s authorial career became fairly stable about a decade in, so she had the freedom to write non-mystery novels (sometimes called “mainstream” or “literary”
- John Hansen
- July 5, 2023
A neurotic half-century: Every Woody Allen film, ranked
Sorry it took me awhile to compile my rankings of Woody Allen’s films. I got a little neurotic about making sure everything is in the
- John Hansen
- July 4, 2023
A panic on our hands on the Fourth of July: The 10 best shark horror movies
“You yell ‘barracuda,’ everybody says ‘Huh? What?’ You yell ‘shark,’ we’ve got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.” That line from