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John Hansen
August 14, 2009

The ugly truth: Hollywood’s marketing strategy lets us down (Movie commentary)

I have the day off. Here are my movie-going options. I can drive an hour to see “(500) Days of Summer,” which I really want to see.

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John Hansen
August 10, 2009

Don’t you forget about John Hughes, whose influence is still being felt (Movie and TV commentary)

Here’s how influential John Hughes was: I’m writing a blog post about the late writer-director (he died on Thursday of a heart attack at age 59) and

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John Hansen
August 6, 2009

‘Funny People’ focuses more on ‘people’ than ‘funny’ (Movie review)

If you saw any of Comedy Central’s advance coverage of “Funny People,” you’ve seen most of the funny bits of the new Judd Apatow movie. But one

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John Hansen
August 1, 2009

Spike should be on the 20 greatest vampires list (TV and movie commentary)

As a “Buffy/Angel” fan, I eagerly opened my Entertainment Weekly today to find out where Angel and Spike ranked among their 20 greatest vampires — and to see if

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John Hansen
July 31, 2009

5 random things on my mind (Commentary)

1. In the new “Star Trek” movie, why doesn’t Spock, who has mastered time travel, go back in time to prevent the destruction of his home planet?

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John Hansen
July 30, 2009

Who’s your favorite Anakin? (Movie and TV commentary)

Jake Lloyd is now 10 years older than he was in “Star Wars: Episode I,” so he’s the same age Anakin Skywalker was in “Episode II,”

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John Hansen
July 28, 2009

Is it just me, or is Comic-Con one giant commercial? (Commentary)

Entertainment Weekly, Zap2It, G4 and all the major entertainment news sources have jumped on the Comic-Con bandwagon in recent years — even the gossip-themed “Chelsea Lately” mentioned Comic-Con in a