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John Hansen
June 11, 2011

First episode impressions: ‘Love Bites’ (TV review)

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the two genres that lend themselves to vignette-style TV shows are horror (the various incarnations of “The Twilight

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John Hansen
June 10, 2011

Flippin’ sweet! ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ and 10 other shows to watch in 2011-12 (TV commentary)

Intimidated by the list of nearly 50 new shows coming out in the fall? Never fear, I have done the hard work for you of

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John Hansen
May 30, 2011

‘Hangover Part II’ even stupider — and funnier — than the original (Movie review)

From the opening scene where Phil (Bradley Cooper) calls his wife from a Bangkok rooftop and says “Honey, it happened again,” “The Hangover Part II” takes off

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John Hansen
May 21, 2011

10 movies John wouldn’t mind seeing this summer (Commentary)

Although I dislike about 90 percent of wide releases nowadays, I still enjoy paging through the Entertainment Weekly summer movie preview and sifting out a

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John Hansen
April 24, 2011

Far from a parody, ‘Paul’ is a celebration of classic sci-fi concepts (Movie review)

One of the hosts of the Force Cast (at forcecast.net) recently argued that sci-fi fans should rebel against the term “nerd” because nerds are mainstream now

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John Hansen
April 22, 2011

Where have all the epic season finales gone? (TV commentary)

For as long as I can remember, TV has served up an epic season finale or two every May. In recent years, up until 2010,

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John Hansen
March 27, 2011

I can’t curb my enthusiasm for the ridiculous, hilarious ‘After Lately’ (TV review)

In the early days of “Chelsea Lately” (10 p.m. Central Mondays through Thursdays, E!), the show started with the roundtable, then had a comedy sketch, then wrapped