- John Hansen
- December 31, 2025
John’s top 10 movies of 2025
The spectacle of the best franchise superhero and action movies got to me in 2025, although I also sat through surprising misfires. I still surprised
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- John Hansen
- December 30, 2025
John’s top 10 TV shows of 2025
I found my TV habits changing in 2025. I met the fall season with a Gen-Z-style “meh,” and I was fine delaying viewings of even
- John Hansen
- December 27, 2025
All 37 Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, ranked
Superhero fatigue? What superhero fatigue? In the 2010s, the Marvel Cinematic Universe completed the Infinity Saga, essentially a 22-episode TV season except with mega-budget movies.
- John Hansen
- December 25, 2025
‘Family Stone’ (2005), with loaded cast, better than a lump of coal
“The Family Stone” (2005) piles strong actors onto the screen and allows them to interact in an overstuffed house at Christmastime. This metaphorical snowball fight
- John Hansen
- December 25, 2025
‘The Holiday’ (2006) is impossible, and impossibly cute
“The Holiday” (2006) has a large gap between screenplay quality and overall movie quality. It would be an interesting experiment for someone to read the
- John Hansen
- December 23, 2025
Self-cannibalizing ‘The Monkey’ is more dark than comedic
“The Monkey” is the fourth-biggest Stephen King adaptation of 2025, but it’s the one that most cynically comments on the fact that Hollywood can’t get
- John Hansen
- December 18, 2025
‘Go’ back to 1999 for a night of Xennial cool
“Go” (1999) was vaguely seen at the time as the younger generation’s “Pulp Fiction” (1994). Today we can articulate that as Xennials as compared to
- John Hansen
- December 16, 2025
‘Freakier Friday’: Some things don’t change with age
“Freakier Friday” is a cute sequel to a cute 2003 remake of a cute 1976 movie that has been remade and sequelized several other times
- John Hansen
- December 8, 2025
A century of suspense: All 52 Alfred Hitchcock films, ranked
A century ago, Alfred Hitchcock quietly (indeed, soundlessly) started his career with throwaway rom-dram “The Pleasure Garden.” Fifty-two years and exactly 52 films later, he
- John Hansen
- December 5, 2025
‘Final Girls’ (2015) makes fun of old tropes, unfortunately shepherds new one
“The Final Girls” (2015) continues the grand tradition of making fun of slasher movies, something that has always happened to some degree even within serious