- John Hansen
- May 29, 2010
Summer movie preview: 10 movies John wouldn’t mind seeing (Commentary)
Sorry I’m late with my summer movie column this year. But at least I’m getting it out by Memorial Day, which used to mark the
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- John Hansen
- May 20, 2010
Happy 30th anniversary to ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ (Movie commentary)
On Friday, “The Empire Strikes Back” marks its 30th anniversary. That’s right, 30 years ago, the movie industry was capable of putting out a Memorial Day weekend
- John Hansen
- April 11, 2010
I wish I could take a time machine back to before I bought my ticket to ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ (Movie review)
The first sign that the characters have gone back in time in “Hot Tub Time Machine”: No cell phone reception. The second sign: A guy is
- John Hansen
- March 29, 2010
Turtles were ‘Lean, Green and on the Screen’
I can’t really say it better than I did in my Nov. 1, 2002, Easily Bemused column for my college paper, the North Dakota State
- John Hansen
- March 7, 2010
‘Turtles Forever’ is Laird’s love letter to longtime fans
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the first “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie, which isn’t the truest and best incarnation of the Turtles (that
- John Hansen
- January 30, 2010
6 ways J.D. Salinger influenced modern pop culture (Book commentary)
Like everyone, I think “Catcher in the Rye” is a brilliant book. I think J.D. Salinger’s other three books (actually compilations of his magazine short
- John Hansen
- January 25, 2010
‘The Invention of Lying’ is great, and that’s the truth (Movie review)
Sort of like “Idiocracy” or that Mel Gibson picture where he could read women’s minds, “The Invention of Lying” (now on DVD) posits an alternate reality and
- John Hansen
- January 24, 2010
‘Adam’ shows how hard Asperger’s is to portray on film, but it’s a noble effort (Movie review)
Asperger’s syndrome is an internally dramatic condition. Outwardly, the person comes off as antisocial, but that’s not the inner truth. Aspies don’t provide facial expressions
- John Hansen
- January 12, 2010
If the passage of time was no object, what sequel would you like to see? (Movie commentary)
In a recent Entertainment Weekly article, James Cameron said that although the computer-generated characters in “Avatar” are aliens, he could’ve just as easily created real-looking
- John Hansen
- January 11, 2010
5 random questions for which I have no good answer (Commentary)
1. In “Return of the Jedi,” when Luke and Leia swing to safety, what is the rope attached to? It can’t be attached to the