- John Hansen
- October 1, 2017
Catching up with ‘Big Little Lies’ Season 1 (TV review)
“Big Little Lies” (which aired earlier this year on HBO, and can now be found on HBO Go or at Redbox) is the best thing
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- John Hansen
- September 28, 2017
‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘The Gatekeeper Trilogy Book 1: Out of the Madhouse’ (1999) (Book review)
In their second novel in the adult “Buffy” line, Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder continue to go against the conventional wisdom that tie-in novels should
- John Hansen
- September 25, 2017
‘The Big Sick’ is the year’s feel-better comedy (Movie review)
I used to listen to Kumail Nanjiani’s “X-Files Files” podcast, and occasionally he’d reference the time when his girlfriend was in a coma. Although it registered
- John Hansen
- September 24, 2017
‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Return to Chaos’ (1998) (Book review)
In “Return to Chaos” (December 1998), the second novel of the adult “Buffy” series, Craig Shaw Gardner – in his only “Buffy” entry — gets to a
- John Hansen
- September 23, 2017
10 funniest moments in ‘Family Guy’s’ ‘Blue Harvest’
There are broad “Star Wars” parodies, and then there are insider-y “Star Wars” parodies, and then there’s a near-perfect mix of the two: The “Family
- John Hansen
- September 22, 2017
Fall TV 2017: 1 new show and 5 returning shows John is looking forward to (Commentary)
There are more good TV shows than ever before – so much so that TV overload has become an issue for even the biggest TV
- John Hansen
- September 21, 2017
‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Child of the Hunt’ (1998) (Book review)
Like all successful SF/fantasy franchises, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” quickly inspired spinoff novels. The first handful were in the young-adult genre, but when it became
- John Hansen
- September 18, 2017
‘Westworld’ Season 1 (2016) blends SF, Western, mystery
When I got a few months of free HBO with my new Dish Network subscription, the first show I programmed into my DVR was “Westworld,” which launched
- John Hansen
- September 17, 2017
Foster’s novelization helps fans connect with world of ‘Alien: Covenant’
Although I gave “Alien: Covenant” a good review earlier this summer, I did sympathize with one Amazon reviewer’s all-caps suggestion to the filmmakers: “Stop killing off main
- John Hansen
- September 15, 2017
‘It Comes at Night’ builds evocative apocalyptic world, but tells too small of a story (Movie review)
“It Comes at Night” (now available via Redbox and streaming) is the latest scary/smart horror-thriller, eschewing haunted houses and possessed children and instead taking its place