John’s top 10 movies of 2002
NDSU Spectrum: Top 10 movies of 2002 ‘Good Girl’ the best of a depressing batch of films By JOHN HANSEN Dec. 13, 2002 Call 2002 the Year of Pain in film. I don’t mean pain […]
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John’s top 10 movies of 2000
NDSU Spectrum: Top 10 movies of 2000 ‘Perfect Storm’ couldn’t be topped in 2000 By JOHN HANSEN Jan. 12, 2001 Following a 1999 movie year that gave us instant classics like “American Beauty,” “The Green […]
John’s top 10 TV shows of 2001
NDSU Spectrum: Top 10 TV shows of 2001 ‘Buffy’ edges ‘Gilmore Girls’ as year’s best By JOHN HANSEN Jan. 11, 2002 Although the shows on this year’s top 10 list range from the wildly creative […]
John’s top 10 movies of 2001
NDSU Spectrum: Top 10 movies of 2001 ‘Ghost World’ goes to head of teen movie class By JOHN HANSEN Jan. 11, 2002 It’s ironically appropriate that the year in which “Not Another Teen Movie” was […]
10 funniest moments in ‘Family Guy’s’ ‘Blue Harvest’
TV review: Ten years after its initial airing, “Family Guy’s” “Blue Harvest” episode remains one of the funniest “Star Wars” parodies.
Fall TV 2017: 1 new show and 5 returning shows John is looking forward to (Commentary)
There are more good TV shows than ever before – so much so that TV overload has become an issue for even the biggest TV geeks – but they premiere throughout the calendar year now. […]
‘Star Wars’ flashback: The 10 best ‘Clone Wars Adventures’ digest stories (2004-07) (Comic book reviews)
The Genndy Tartakovsky “Clone Wars” TV microseries (2003-05) delivered bite-size kinetic tales that served as a testing ground for “The Clone Wars” (2008-14). Its comic-book parallel was the “Clone Wars Adventures” digests (2004-07), in which artists – […]
7 times ‘X-Files’ borrowed from ‘Kolchak’
TV commentary: Although their styles are different, there’s no doubt that “The X-Files” borrowed many concepts from “Kolchak.”
All 22 installments of ‘Kolchak: The Night Stalker’ (1972-75), ranked
TV review:“Kolchak” is like a parody of what it never was. It’s never scary, the low budget is always obvious, and it’s hard to take it seriously.
All 10 episodes of ‘James at 16’ (1978), ranked
TV shows lost to history (Review): Despite crew-versus-network turmoil after “James at 15,” this next batch of episodes feels like a logical continuation.