- John Hansen
- December 31, 2024
John’s top 10 movies of 2024
Looking at my top 10, the surprisingly (but maybe it shouldn’t be) prevailing theme is metaphysics. We live in a decade when time seems to
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- John Hansen
- December 30, 2024
John’s top 10 TV shows of 2024
Prestige miniseries and streaming franchise “content” ruled the roost, but traditional network TV surprisingly hung on to life this year – even if the format
- John Hansen
- December 25, 2024
‘The Apartment’ (1960) is worth renting, maybe even owning
Although many rom-coms have used the broad structure of “The Apartment” (1960’s Best Picture winner), few have matched its genuineness. At the broadest glance, C.C.
- John Hansen
- December 24, 2024
‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ (1946), but is it a wonderful movie?
Director Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) stands as a wonderful Christmastime perspective check. Along with James Stewart’s George Bailey, viewers should also remember
- John Hansen
- December 19, 2024
‘Edward Scissorhands’ (1990) a too-thin slice of heartfelt weirdness
Tim Burton is the most idiosyncratic of mass-appeal directors, but his weirdness is only skin deep. This is especially evident in one of his most
- John Hansen
- December 14, 2024
Dave’s ‘The Night We Lost Him’ blends romance, mystery
In the 19th century, authors snuck mystery elements into their stories and an exciting and popular new genre gradually emerged. In “The Night We Lost
- John Hansen
- December 12, 2024
Smartly structured ‘Challengers’ breaks at love
“Challengers” gets a lot of mileage out of what is essentially a “Gossip Girl” premise: Two male tennis players – besties who have won the
- John Hansen
- December 5, 2024
‘The Immortalists’ (2018) examines life through lens of death
Chloe Benjamin’s “The Immortalists” (2018) has a spicy premise – four young siblings in 1960s New York City learn the dates of their deaths from
- John Hansen
- December 4, 2024
‘Under Capricorn’ (1949) rightly buried under Hitchcock’s suspensers
Alfred Hitchcock was the Master of Suspense, but one thing he never mastered was a consistent sense of proper pacing and movie length. “Under Capricorn”
- John Hansen
- November 28, 2024
‘Three Days of the Condor’ (1975) provides holiday-season conspiracy chill
Political conspiracy films were so common in the Seventies that some people were probably getting sick of them, but today they stand as a rich