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John Hansen
November 1, 2009

‘Paranormal Activity’ a cut above a normal horror film (Movie review)

Usually I don’t give spoiler warnings in my blog posts, the reason being that this isn’t a movie review site, it’s an interactive site where

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John Hansen
October 25, 2009

‘Zombieland’ kind of fun, completely forgettable (Movie review)

“Zombieland” is a fairly fun movie, but it also stretches this whole “being chased by a pack of zombies” thing to the point where I wonder

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John Hansen
October 18, 2009

Oh, how I love/hate ‘(500) Days of Summer’ (Movie review)

“(500) Days of Summer,” the would-be-romantic, too-sad-to-be-a-comedy starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, starts with a narrated warning that this is not a love story. It’s

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John Hansen
October 17, 2009

How crucial is continuity in franchise storytelling? (Commentary)

I’m curious to hear from my readers on this one: How important is it to you that a franchise has continuity between each of its

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John Hansen
October 10, 2009

I don’t have a favorite actor (If I had one, I guess it’d be Michael Cera) (Movie and TV commentary)

The other day someone asked me who my favorite actor is and I found out something interesting about myself: I don’t have one. Despite being

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John Hansen
October 4, 2009

Why do so many previews give away the whole movie? (Commentary)

Entertainment Weekly wondered why “Jennifer’s Body” had low box office returns, and suggested that people had their fill of the real Megan Fox through the media and

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John Hansen
September 23, 2009

Find out how Megan Fox stays looking good in ‘Jennifer’s Body’ (Spoiler alert: She eats people) (Movie review)

“Jennifer’s Body” is a cynical, heavy handed and occasionally scary follow-up to “Juno” from screenwriter Diablo Cody. In interviews, Cody said she wanted flip the horror standard and