- John Hansen
- April 27, 2023
‘Scream VI’ is slick fun, but rules go out the window
I have a friend who sometimes says something is a good film, but it’s not a good film for what it’s supposed to be. We
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- John Hansen
- April 20, 2023
‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Season 5 looks to the future
Like the final season of “Lost,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is flash-forwarding in its last go-around, in the prologs of each episode (three of which
- John Hansen
- April 11, 2023
Shyamalan’s ‘Knock at the Cabin’ not worth answering
I suspect “Knock at the Cabin” (Peacock) will rank as M. Night Shyamalan’s most divisive film. Based on the novel “The Cabin at the End
- John Hansen
- April 9, 2023
‘Slasher’ Season 5 ‘Ripper’ overly ambitious, but still brutal
For better or worse, “Slasher” gets ambitious by trying its first period-piece mystery, venturing to 1890s Toronto. Through two episodes, it’s slightly “for worse,” but
- John Hansen
- March 28, 2023
Seventies-style howcatchem ‘Poker Face’ would make Columbo proud
“Poker Face” (Peacock) starts off as an earworm – I’d bet 50 percent of viewers have “puh-puh-puh-poker face” in their head when thinking about the
- John Hansen
- March 27, 2023
‘Buffy: Big Bad’ (2022) a fun alternate-dimension romp
“Big Bad: A Novel” (September 2022) announces up front that it’s set in an alternate “Demondale” in 1999. It’s obviously a fun novel from the
- John Hansen
- March 25, 2023
‘Bloody Fool for Love’ (2022) goes back to ‘Buffy’s’ good ole days
After the cancellation of Dark Horse Comics’ “Buffy” line in 2018, a longtime fan could accuse the franchise’s handlers (which is now – ugh –
- John Hansen
- February 23, 2023
Blake’s ‘Buffy’ books continue with ‘One Girl in All the World’
With her second “Frankie the Vampire Slayer” entry, “One Girl in All the World” (January, hardcover), Kendare Blake again delivers a novel that’s partly appealing
- John Hansen
- February 21, 2023
Preston & Child go back in time for ‘Cabinet of Dr. Leng’
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have sent Agent Pendergast and other characters to many parts of the globe, but for “The Cabinet of Dr. Leng”
- John Hansen
- February 10, 2023
King stirs brew of tropes, imagination in ‘Fairy Tale’ (2022)
Stephen King goes into full fantasy adventure mode for “Fairy Tale” (September, hardcover), a 599-page doorstop he wrote during the height of the pandemic, driven