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How do you make a good website? Fincher doesn’t have answer, but he knows how to make a good film: ‘The Social Network’ (Movie review)

October 11, 2010April 19, 2021 John Hansen Movies

I love the combination of director David Fincher and historical topics. In his 2007 movie “Zodiac,” it seemed like he went back in time to a 1970s newsroom to capture the drama around the hunt […]

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How many times have you seen ‘Inception?’ (Movie review)

July 31, 2010April 18, 2025 John Hansen IMDb Top 250 Movies

2010 finally has its first great movie, and it’s Christopher Nolan’s “Inception.” That shouldn’t be surprising since — now that I think about it — I’ve liked every one of the writer-director’s films: the backward “Memento,” the thriller “Insomnia,” the period-piece […]

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Happy 30th anniversary to ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ (Movie commentary)

May 20, 2010August 14, 2025 John Hansen Featured

On Friday, “The Empire Strikes Back” marks its 30th anniversary. That’s right, 30 years ago, the movie industry was capable of putting out a Memorial Day weekend blockbuster that people wanted to see and that was not […]

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‘Sherlock Holmes’ has lots of style, but it’s hard to care (Movie review)

January 1, 2010April 18, 2025 John Hansen Movies

I don’t understand these movies that put so much effort into making it look great, and then seem to expend so little effort on plot and characters. “Sherlock Holmes” (2009) is one of those movies — from […]

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James Cameron takes humanity to task in the breathtaking ‘Avatar’ (Movie review)

December 20, 2009April 19, 2021 John Hansen Movies

Twenty-five years ago in “The Terminator,” James Cameron worried that technology would spell the end of mankind. In his subsequent films, he continued to mull our arrogance about what we create. In “Aliens,” we had […]

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‘An Education’ doesn’t teach us anything new (Movie review)

November 26, 2009April 17, 2021 John Hansen Movies

“An Education” is one of those movies that I can acknowledge is good, yet I didn’t particularly like it. This is because I’m starting to develop a low tolerance for watching supposedly new movies that I […]

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Aliens-vs.-humans thriller ‘District 9’ lives up to the hype (Movie review)

August 15, 2009April 19, 2021 John Hansen Movies

“District 9,” which immediately earns a spot among modern sci-fi classics, started off as a “Halo” video game adaptation. When that fell through, the filmmakers decided to make something cooler.

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6th ‘Harry Potter’ film is a beautiful work of art — and sometimes it’s even a bit funny (Movie review)

July 15, 2009April 17, 2021 John Hansen Harry Potter/Wizarding World

J.K. Rowling did her best writing on “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” and the filmmakers rise to her level to make the series’ best film by far. When a much-loved piece of literature is adapted to […]

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Maybe ‘The Phantom Menace’ was ‘just a movie’ after all (Commentary)

May 19, 2009April 17, 2025 John Hansen Movies

Ten years ago today, I was waiting in a sun-drenched line at West Acres Cinema in Fargo, N.D., to buy a ticket for the midnight debut of “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace,” […]

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The new ‘Star Trek’ is actually kind of cool (Movie review)

May 11, 2009April 17, 2021 John Hansen Movies

Director J.J. Abrams makes “Star Trek” respectable again with this origin tale that sets up everything we’ve seen in six TV series — I’m including the underappreciated cartoon — and 10 movies. (Well, “Enterprise” takes place before this, but […]

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Since 2009, John Hansen has been reviewing new and old movies, TV, books and comics. Tom Simmons joined the RFMC team in 2024. We review sci-fi, horror, noir and much more.

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