Science Fiction

‘The Lone Gunmen’ reviews

John’s “The Lone Gunmen” flashback review, johnvhansen.com, May 8, 2011 NDSU Spectrum: TV review ‘Lone Gunmen’ finds its niche in comedy By JOHN HANSEN May

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‘The X-Files’ Season 7 reviews

John’s “The X-Files” Season 7 flashback review, johnvhansen.com, March 19, 2011 “The X-Files” Season 7 (1999-2000, Fox), episodes 1-7 – “The X-Files” has recovered a

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‘Dark Angel’ Season 1 reviews

John’s “Dark Angel” Season 1 flashback review, Nov. 21, 2019 NDSU Spectrum: TV review ‘Dark Angel’ isn’t in same league as ‘Buffy’ or ‘Angel’ yet

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‘Roswell’ Season 1 reviews

All 22 episodes of “Roswell” Season 1 (1999-2000), ranked, John Hansen, July 3, 2019 NDSU Spectrum: TV review ‘Roswell’ steps in to fill looming ‘X-Files’

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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ returns franchise to thoughtful sci-fi roots (TV review)

As a franchise, “Star Trek” has boldly gone many places, and not all of them have been good. While the original series is legendary, and

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‘Cloverfield Paradox’ pays lip service to science, turns into a familiar space thriller (Movie review)

“The Cloverfield Paradox” (which recently debuted on Netflix), the third installment of the loosely connected Cloververse saga, takes topical physics such as the recently discovered

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All 10 short stories from ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams,’ ranked

Even if you’ve watched Amazon Prime’s “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams,” you still don’t know the 10 short stories they came from. The teleplay writers

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‘Supergirl’ vs. ‘Riverdale’: Which is the dumber show?

Since I have for some bizarre reason watched every episode of “Supergirl” (now in Season 3) and “Riverdale” (now in Season 2), I might as

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All 10 episodes of ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams,’ ranked

“Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams” (Amazon Prime) has one of the best opening-credits sequences in recent memory: The music gets tenser and creepier as we

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‘The Shape of Water’ turns ‘E.T.’ into a romance for adults (Movie review)

Director and co-writer Guillermo del Toro puts a lot of winning elements from successful films into a blender and delivers “The Shape of Water” (2017),

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