- John Hansen
- April 19, 2010
‘Angry Video Game Nerd’ is pure nostalgic bliss … and anger (Commentary)
The “Angry Video Game Nerd” (type in that phrase on YouTube or go to his website) uses modern production values (film clips and staged scenes to
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- John Hansen
- April 16, 2010
‘Life Unexpected’s’ Baze-or-Ryan: Shades of Jordan-or-Brian? (TV commentary)
If you’re worried about the fate of “Life Unexpected,” the ending of the first season couldn’t have made you feel too good about its chances for renewal
- John Hansen
- April 15, 2010
Uh oh, ‘24’ is back to its old (stupid) tricks (TV commentary)
Chloe is put in charge of CTU; Renee and Jack have sex less than an hour after Jack found President Hassan dead; Hassan’s widow agrees
- John Hansen
- April 11, 2010
I wish I could take a time machine back to before I bought my ticket to ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ (Movie review)
The first sign that the characters have gone back in time in “Hot Tub Time Machine”: No cell phone reception. The second sign: A guy is
- John Hansen
- April 2, 2010
In search of the next ‘Lost?’ It’s already here, and it’s called ‘Fringe’ (TV commentary)
A recent issue of Entertainment Weekly examined networks’ efforts to find the next “Lost,” in terms of both quality and ratings, and determined that nothing fits the
- John Hansen
- March 31, 2010
Hold onto this throwaway album from Butch Walker (Music review)
Butch Walker’s latest album was, according to the liner notes, “written and recorded in 5 days at RubyRed Productions in Santa Monica, CA.” I’m not surprised.
- John Hansen
- March 29, 2010
Turtles were ‘Lean, Green and on the Screen’
I can’t really say it better than I did in my Nov. 1, 2002, Easily Bemused column for my college paper, the North Dakota State
- John Hansen
- March 27, 2010
In ‘Buffy’ No. 33, Twilight is revealed to be … cough … hack … wheeze … spoiler alert (Comic book commentary)
Almost as entertaining as reading the “Buffy” Season 8 comics is reading Scott Allie’s From the Editor pieces on the Dark Horse Web site. In a January editorial, he
- John Hansen
- March 26, 2010
Are Andy and Erin on ‘The Office’ representative of a new trend, or an old one? (TV commentary)
People-watching in the lobby between acts at a recent Everclear concert at The Midland in Kansas City, I noticed an interesting phenomenon: Among couples, nine
- John Hansen
- March 25, 2010
This week on ‘Lost’: You wanna see something awesome? (TV commentary)
I’m not an awards-show guy. If you’re perusing my blog archives looking for analyses of Oscars, Emmys or Grammys, you won’t find any. That having