- John Hansen
- May 8, 2012
5 buzzworthy season finales (TV commentary)
It’s that time of year when summer movies start to steal the headlines from TV, but boob-tube fans have one last gasp, at least: The
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- John Hansen
- April 16, 2012
‘Star Wars’ flashback: Marvel’s ‘Ewoks’ and ‘Droids’ (1985-87) (Comic book reviews)
Ask “Star Wars” fans to list notoriously bad “Star Wars” yarns through the years, and No. 1 will of course be the 1978 “Star Wars
- John Hansen
- March 23, 2012
‘Hunger Games’ presents a dystopian future that’s too distressingly plausible (Movie review)
How in the world does one explain the huge popularity of the “Twilight,” “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “Hunger Games” book/film series? I mean,
- John Hansen
- March 21, 2012
‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Tales of the Bounty Hunters’ (1996) (Book review)
As someone who loves stories and the different ways they can be told, I’ve been smitten by “The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba
- John Hansen
- March 12, 2012
On ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars,’ how in the world is Darth Maul still alive? (TV commentary)
The “Star Wars” saga has a weird tendency to tell stories out of order. Most notably, the film saga started with Episode IV. The books
- John Hansen
- March 8, 2012
‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Courtship of Princess Leia’ (1994) (Book review)
With the planet Dathomir and its notorious natives, the Nightsisters, figuring prominently in recent episodes of “The Clone Wars,” it’s a good time to re-read “The
- John Hansen
- February 26, 2012
‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Cloak of Deception’ and ‘Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter’ (2001) (Book review)
Welcome to a new feature where I revisit old “Star Wars” novels when inspired by new works. The inspiration for this first entry is James
- John Hansen
- February 14, 2012
‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’ is throwaway silliness, but in a good way (Movie review)
“Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” is a stupid blockbuster movie in the best sense of the phrase, just like its predecessor, 2008’s “Journey to the Center
- John Hansen
- February 13, 2012
‘Phantom Menace’ in 3D: Now THIS is podracing (Movie review)
In the 1983 documentary “From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga,” George Lucas talks about how a lot of movies like to
- John Hansen
- February 6, 2012
With ‘The Visible Man,’ pop-culture thinker Klosterman adds new skill to his resume: Sci-fi novelist (Book review)
Readers of his essays know that Chuck Klosterman has long been fascinated by the idea of the true reality of human behavior. He wrote an