- John Hansen
- December 24, 2011
John’s top 10 movies of 2011
As always, I start my top 10 movies of the year list with a disclaimer: Since I live in a small town, I haven’t seen
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- John Hansen
- October 23, 2011
‘Paranormal Activity 3’ has the found-footage genre down to a science (Movie review)
Many horror franchises get lazy with each new entry, falling back on what worked in previous installments rather than getting innovative. I’m happy to say
- John Hansen
- August 24, 2011
10 movies John wouldn’t mind seeing this fall (Commentary)
I’ve done the hard work of perusing Entertainment Weekly’s fall movie preview and watching the trailers, and I now present the top 10 movies to
- John Hansen
- May 21, 2011
10 movies John wouldn’t mind seeing this summer (Commentary)
Although I dislike about 90 percent of wide releases nowadays, I still enjoy paging through the Entertainment Weekly summer movie preview and sifting out a
- John Hansen
- May 16, 2011
‘Insidious’ sneaks up on you with its scares
“Insidious,” which has scared up the best business of any horror movie this year, is made by people who still love the genre. Although it comes
- John Hansen
- April 17, 2011
Meta to the max: If it’s all been done before, then what’s left to say in ‘Scream 4?’ (Movie review)
Eleven years after “Scream 3,” the casting director of “Scream 4” had a lot of lost time to make up for. While the original film in 1996
- John Hansen
- November 14, 2010
‘Paranormal Activity 2’ even better than the original (Movie review)
Shaune, a commenter on these threads, wrote about a year ago that he liked “Paranormal Activity,” but if they made a sequel he would hate it. Well,
- John Hansen
- September 19, 2010
Latest Shyamalan story is ‘Devil’ of a good time
It seems like I’m the last person who still gets excited about M. Night Shyamalan movies. But although movies from the auteur behind “Signs,” “The
- John Hansen
- August 29, 2010
‘The Last Exorcism’ probably won’t be the last exorcism film (Movie review)
The Devil always makes a great villain. That’s part of why M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie about people trapped on an elevator when weird things
- John Hansen
- August 18, 2010
9 fall movies other than ‘Machete’ that might be worth checking out (Commentary)
I looked a little closer at my Fall Movie Preview issue of Entertainment Weekly and discovered that “Machete” isn’t the only movie coming out. Here are nine