- John Hansen
- January 1, 2010
‘Sherlock Holmes’ has lots of style, but it’s hard to care (Movie review)
I don’t understand these movies that put so much effort into making it look great, and then seem to expend so little effort on plot
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- John Hansen
- December 30, 2009
John’s top 10 movies of 2009
I reserve the right to retroactively add “Adam” and “The Invention of Lying” to this list; living in a small town, I have to wait for DVD to see
- John Hansen
- December 20, 2009
James Cameron takes humanity to task in the breathtaking ‘Avatar’ (Movie review)
Twenty-five years ago in “The Terminator,” James Cameron worried that technology would spell the end of mankind. In his subsequent films, he continued to mull
- John Hansen
- December 13, 2009
John’s favorite movies of the Aughts (Commentary)
Next, here are my top 10 … OK, 20 … movies of the Aughts. 1. “Garden State” (2004) — I’m not going to lie: This is just a
- John Hansen
- December 11, 2009
John’s favorite entertainers of the Aughts (Commentary)
First, my top 10 entertainers. These are the people (and one fictional robot) who put a smile on my face in every project they tackled.
- John Hansen
- December 9, 2009
The best movies of the Aughts … as it happened (Commentary)
Sticking with the theme from my previous post, here are my No. 1 movies from the years 2000 through 2008, as I saw it at
- John Hansen
- December 5, 2009
The really cool stuff of the Aughts wasn’t found in the mainstream (Commentary)
Time Magazine called it the “decade from hell,” but Entertainment Weekly argued, in its latest issue, what about the entertainment? However, they failed to make
- John Hansen
- November 26, 2009
‘An Education’ doesn’t teach us anything new (Movie review)
“An Education” is one of those movies that I can acknowledge is good, yet I didn’t particularly like it. This is because I’m starting to develop
- John Hansen
- November 8, 2009
‘Donnie Darko’ helmer is still thinking outside ‘The Box,’ but that’s not necessarily a good thing (Movie review)
See, this is what I meant in my “Paranormal Activity” review about how good actors can add a lot to a movie. Cameron Diaz is
- 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