- John Hansen
- February 4, 2026
‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’ celebrates a hilarious career
Mel Brooks has a great sense of comic pacing and rhythm in his best movies. He knows when to get in and get out. “Mel
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- John Hansen
- January 24, 2026
In ‘Selling Superman’ (2024), a family’s story illuminates hobby’s healthy and unhealthy traits
“Selling Superman” (2024, Amazon Prime) gets into the introspective aspects of collecting and dealing comic books by focusing on one family with a bizarre (now
- 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
- John Hansen
- November 12, 2025
I like ‘John Candy: I Like Me,’ even if there’s no dirt to dig up
John Candy would seemingly be a horrible documentary subject because there’s no controversy about him. Everyone liked him, and as the title “John Candy: I
- John Hansen
- September 24, 2025
Fall movie preview 2025: 10 films I wouldn’t mind seeing
Tis the season for Stephen King adaptations, biopics, mysteries, Oscar bait and oddities. These are my picks for 10 films from Fall 2025 worth checking
- John Hansen
- February 2, 2025
‘RoboDoc’ (2023) has one directive: Go in-depth on 1987’s ‘RoboCop’
Thanks to crowd funding and documentary makers’ better sense of the size of their potential audience, we’re getting in-depth docs on classic entertainment like never
- John Hansen
- January 21, 2025
‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ (2024) flies high as a tear-jerker
Have Kleenex ready, cuz I mean, damn. In “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” (2024), the “S” doesn’t stand for Superman, nor is it an alien
- John Hansen
- October 9, 2024
‘78/52’ (2017) analyzes ‘Psycho’s’ Shower Scene, and makes a case for its obsession
If the shower scene – or should I say The Shower Scene – from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” (1960) wasn’t already the most obsessively analyzed sequence
- John Hansen
- September 24, 2024
Fall movie preview 2024: 10 films I wouldn’t mind seeing
Depth might be returning to Hollywood’s offerings this fall. The season is short on mega-hyped movies, but a closer look reveals many projects whose taglines
- John Hansen
- December 30, 2023
John’s top 10 TV shows of 2023
We’re not exactly at a stable point in TV history, so it’s fitting that my list of 2023 favorites includes various types of series. Two