- John Hansen
- February 13, 2012
‘Phantom Menace’ in 3D: Now THIS is podracing (Movie review)
In the 1983 documentary “From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga,” George Lucas talks about how a lot of movies like to
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- John Hansen
- February 6, 2012
‘The Descendants’ another low-key masterpiece from Alexander Payne (Movie review)
I just got done reading Chuck Klosterman’s novel “The Visible Man,” which deals with the nature of reality. In a wider sense, all pop entertainment
- John Hansen
- January 10, 2012
David Fincher makes ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ better than it deserves to be (Movie review)
I subscribe to Entertainment Weekly but I’m not an avid follower of the book world, so I kind of got the impression that EW was
- 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
- John Hansen
- December 5, 2011
Jason Segel shows us the Muppets have aged well (Movie review)
After a batch of truly terrible previews for Disney-Pixar movies (not only did the movies look bad, the trailers themselves were interminable), my screening of “The
- John Hansen
- November 2, 2011
Oh my god, they killed Otis! (and thoughts on falls to the dark side) (TV and movie commentary)
Kind of a jerk move by Shane to kill Otis on Sunday’s episode of “The Walking Dead” (8 p.m. Central Sundays on AMC), huh? But also a
- 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
- October 10, 2011
‘50/50’ shows both sides of the cancer coin (Movie review)
I wasn’t surprised to learn that Adam, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character in “50/50,” is based on screenwriter Will Reiser. Adam has cancer, but he’s not an emotional train
- John Hansen
- September 26, 2011
Baseball fans will find lots to love and debate about ‘Moneyball’ (Movie review)
“Moneyball” includes so many scenes of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane (Brat Pitt) and other baseball people spitting chew into cups that it almost plays
- John Hansen
- September 6, 2011
‘Blue Valentine,’ ‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story,’ ‘Cedar Rapids,’ ‘Hobo with a Shotgun,’ ‘Hall Pass,’ ‘Skateland’ (Movie reviews)
With a few days off from work and a couple weeks to go before the fall TV season, I took the opportunity to rent some