- John Hansen
- February 6, 2019
‘ABC Murders’ miniseries reinvents Poirot
“The ABC Murders,” a three-part miniseries that aired last year on BBC and is now on Amazon Prime, is a case study in the creativity
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- John Hansen
- December 28, 2018
John’s top 10 TV shows of 2018
It’s never before been so hard to pick the 10 best shows of the year, as streaming services deliver strong short series on a regular
- John Hansen
- December 15, 2018
‘Never Goin’ Back’ isn’t funny enough, but two hot stoner girls have oddity value, at least (Movie review)
Recent Hollywood offerings remind us that any stupid thing guys can do, girls can do just as stupidly, from the “Hangover”-esque “Girls Trip” to the
- John Hansen
- December 11, 2018
‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Season 2 a delightful global romp
Saying a TV show spends a lot of money might be an odd way to extoll praise, but that’s what pushes “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
- Shaune Redfield
- November 29, 2018
‘Sneaky Pete’ remains a fun and twisty long con in Season 2 (TV review)
“Sneaky Pete,” developed by Bryan Cranston and Graham Yost, was originally created as a “mystery of the week” series for CBS, about a con man
- Shaune Redfield
- November 13, 2018
‘Homecoming’s’ 1980s style techniques are beautiful, and the mystery is good too (TV review)
I went into “Homecoming” (Amazon Prime) pretty blind. I had seen a few quick ads for the show but had no idea what it was
- John Hansen
- February 3, 2018
All 10 episodes of ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams,’ ranked
“Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams” (Amazon Prime) has one of the best opening-credits sequences in recent memory: The music gets tenser and creepier as we
- John Hansen
- December 11, 2017
Sherman-Palladino achieves career hat trick with ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’
All of the best traits and very few of the worst traits of hat-loving TV producer Amy Sherman-Palladino are present in the delightful “Marvelous Mrs.
- John Hansen
- June 1, 2017
‘Manchester by the Sea’ a brutal tale of loss and recovery (Movie review)
There are safe tear-jerkers, like TV’s “This Is Us” (where we kind of chuckle at the fact that it makes us cry), and then there
- John Hansen
- February 20, 2017
‘The Monster’ makes a case for old-school creature effects, human resiliency (Movie review)
If you can spare 91 minutes for a taut, tense horror flick, check out “The Monster,” which had a limited theatrical release last year and is now