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John Hansen
December 26, 2025

All 10 ‘Rocky’/ ‘Creed’ films, ranked from chump to champ

For a half-century, Sylvester Stallone and his collaborators have explored the impact of boxing, friendship, family, the ability to throw a punch and – more

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John Hansen
November 10, 2025

‘Chad Powers’ powers forward as best of the ‘Ted Lasso’ ilk

“Chad Powers” (Hulu) is a weird show and a hard one to get right, but the six-episode Season 1 mostly achieves it. Based on Eli

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John Hansen
August 28, 2025

Sandler fans will be ‘Happy’ with ‘Gilmore 2’

After becoming rich from his 1990s hits, Adam Sandler earned a reputation for cranking out movies with his friends – always fun for them to

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John Hansen
July 12, 2025

Despite team-up, ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ is legendarily dull

If “Karate Kid: Legends” was merely a flat sequel to 2010’s “Karate Kid” – about the next kid, Li Fong (Ben Wang), mentored by Jackie

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John Hansen
June 27, 2025

Wilson’s series takes a good golf swing, can’t quite ‘Stick’ it

“Stick” (Apple TV Plus) takes old generation-gap and coming-of-age issues and sometimes makes them as fresh as the dew at the morning’s first tee time.

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John Hansen
April 17, 2025

Hackman’s ‘Hoosiers’ (1986) has the winning touch

In the scene everyone remembers from “Hoosiers” (1986), Hickory Huskers coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) shows his team that the Butler Fieldhouse dimensions – 10-foot

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John Hansen
February 20, 2025

‘Karate Kid’ (2010) and the problem with sticking to the script

The last 15 years or so have proven that returning characters mean more to audiences than reusing the title. “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” with the original characters,