- John Hansen
- July 4, 2019
‘Wimbledon’ (2004) serves up tennis and romance
Making a great fictional tennis movie is a tall order. The sport is naturally cinematic and filled with personal drama, and there’s no way made-up
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- John Hansen
- July 1, 2019
Mamet play gets turned into ‘About Last Night’ … twice
Although the two versions of “About Last Night” are one and two degrees removed from David Mamet’s stage play “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” – on
- John Hansen
- June 27, 2019
‘What We Do in the Shadows’ (2014) stretches out one funny joke
“What We Do in the Shadows” (2014) opens with a close-up of an alarm clock going off, followed by a hand reaching out of a
- Shaune Redfield
- June 26, 2019
‘What We Do in the Shadows’ makes hilarious transition to small screen
I hadn’t seen the 2014 movie “What We Do in the Shadows,” so I wasn’t sure what to expect going into FX’s spinoff series of the same
- John Hansen
- June 22, 2019
‘Always Be My Maybe’ is exactly what you think it is – but not entirely to its detriment (Movie review)
You know what kind of movie “Always Be My Maybe” (Netflix) is, and the people who made it know what kind of movie it is,
- John Hansen
- June 20, 2019
‘Ghostbusters’ (2016) leans into comedy, drops suspense
“Ghostbusters: Answer the Call” (2016) was labeled as ill-conceived before it came out, with people asking “Why remake a classic?” The good thing is that
- John Hansen
- June 13, 2019
‘Ghostbusters II’ (1989) a big step down, but still fun
“Ghostbusters II” (1989), which feels even more Eighties than the 1984 original, is a prime example of one of those old-school blockbuster sequels that’s defined
- John Hansen
- June 10, 2019
‘We’re No Angels’ (1989) playfully pillories the pious
Following two escaped convicts who take cover as “priests” in a small American town along the Canadian border in the 1930s, “We’re No Angels” (1989)
- John Hansen
- June 6, 2019
‘Ghostbusters’ (1984) masterfully mixes comedy, critique
Thirty-five years later, “Ghostbusters” (1984) stands as a master class in how to smoothly mix genres. Bill Murray is consistently in a wry comedy while
- John Hansen
- May 24, 2019
‘Happy Death Day 2U’ wrings more fun out of ‘repeated day’ premise with clever genre-hop (Movie review)
It’s accurate to call “Happy Death Day 2U” a dumb movie, and accurate to call it a smart movie. It seems as if Blumhouse studio