- John Hansen
- August 6, 2009
‘Funny People’ focuses more on ‘people’ than ‘funny’ (Movie review)
If you saw any of Comedy Central’s advance coverage of “Funny People,” you’ve seen most of the funny bits of the new Judd Apatow movie. But one
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- John Hansen
- July 25, 2009
5 random odds and ends (Commentary)
1. In “Return of the Jedi,” when the Ewok (I believe it’s Paploo, but I can’t check it because I don’t have my “Star Wars”
- John Hansen
- July 22, 2009
‘Bruno’ is brilliant, but it’ll bring you down (Movie review)
Continuing gay week here at my blog, I saw “Bruno” last night. Here’s my conclusion: Sacha Baron Cohen is a brilliant performance artist. And don’t see this
- John Hansen
- July 14, 2009
I like ‘I Love You, Beth Cooper’ well enough, but I don’t love it (Movie review)
Remember that scene from “Election” when Tammy Metzler steps up to the podium and encourages the student body to just vote for whoever they want
- John Hansen
- July 9, 2009
‘10 Things I Hate About You’ saves the summer season (TV review)
I don’t think I’ve seen the Julia Stiles-Heath Ledger movie of the same name, or if I did, it made no impression on me. So
- John Hansen
- June 28, 2009
My ‘Proposal’: This rom-com needed more character development (Movie review)
See “The Proposal” only if you are a romantic comedy kind of person. If you aren’t, this movie won’t convert you to the genre. (more…)
- John Hansen
- June 8, 2009
Will Ferrell’s ‘Land of the Lost’ has too much cheese in the recipe (Movie review)
“Land of the Lost” has tasty ingredients, but doesn’t mix them in the right proportion. It blends comedy, adventure and cheesiness (as per the old TV
- John Hansen
- June 6, 2009
Good news for fans of good TV: Comedy Central is going back to the ‘Futurama’ (Commentary)
Comedy Central found a pretty cool way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of “Futurama.” The network announced on Tuesday that it’s bringing the 1999-2003 Fox series back
- John Hansen
- June 5, 2009
I hate to say it, but ‘The Goode Family’ is another yawner from Mike Judge (TV review)
“Office Space” is a contemporary classic of cubicle culture, and “Idiocracy” is a disturbingly prescient pseudo-comedy about the dumbing down of the world — they’re
- John Hansen
- May 28, 2009
State of Television Address, Part 3: ‘Glee’ provides a ray of hope for the fall (TV review)
This is the post where I’m supposed list the new fall shows I’m looking forward to, but after watching clips of the five networks’ 28