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Mark Hanson

Toronto

Film Writer and Curator at Slant Magazine

#1 Aspen Extreme fan Product Manager @BayStreetVideo

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  • Brian Skiba's Painfully Anonymous Western

    2 weeks ago | slantmagazine.com | Mark Hanson

    Writer-director Brian Skiba’s Gunslingers is the filmmaker’s second western to reach theaters this year, following Guns of Redemption just last month, and it feels no less hastily assembled.

  • Steven Soderbergh's Spy Thriller Is a Cool Cucumber

    1 month ago | slantmagazine.com | Mark Hanson

    Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag is the kind of old-fashioned caper that the filmmaker can make in his sleep, and unfortunately in this case, it feels as if he did just that. Like the Ocean’s series, the film seeks to pay tribute to a bygone era of genre cool—to a brand of popular escapist cinema where beautiful people casually navigated high-stakes situations while trading blithe bon mots.

  • A Blazing Middle Finger to Bourgeois Society

    1 month ago | slantmagazine.com | Mark Hanson

    The vapid bourgeois class will always be prime fodder for a ribbing in a world that continues to be systematically dismantled by capitalist oligarchies. Case in point: The Visitor, Bruce LaBruce’s hilariously deranged art-porn reimagining of Teorema, proves that the Canadian provocateur is the ideal person to bring Pier Paolo Pasolini’s subversive spirit into the present moment.

  • Mel Gibson's By-the-Numbers Thriller

    Jan 23, 2025 | slantmagazine.com | Mark Hanson

    Mel Gibson’s Flight Risk takes off under promising conditions for fans of no-frills action flicks. After tracking down sardonic mob accountant Winston (Topher Grace) in Alaska, dogged U.S. Marshal Madolyn (Michelle Dockery) must accompany him back to New York to testify against his high-profile gangster boss. Enter a vigorously gum-chewing Mark Wahlberg as Daryl, the local pilot who will be transporting them to Seattle in his small plane.

  • Looking Into The Abyss: The Horror In The High Desert Films

    Oct 9, 2024 | splittoothmedia.com | Mark Hanson

    Much like the woods of Burkittsville, Maryland, the barren plains and disused railway yards of North Nevada have accrued their own aura of extremely bad vibes throughout the Horror in the High Desert films. Begun as an early-Covid lockdown experiment by indie filmmaker Dutch Marich, the first installment popped up on Tubi without much fanfare in 2021, but it quickly grew a cult fanbase that latched on to the film’s irresistible new urban legend.

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Mark Hanson
Mark Hanson @mahahafilm
11 Apr 25

So many DVD donations coming into the store these days. People just straight up giving away gold https://t.co/jtANp8sMzw

Mark Hanson
Mark Hanson @mahahafilm
8 Apr 25

Gives me no pleasure to report this

Slant
Slant @Slant_Magazine

Nicolas Cage can only do so much to bring Brian Skiba’s hastily assembled oater GUNSLINGERS to life. Read @mahahafilm's review. https://t.co/Ca2o5s1d2m

Mark Hanson
Mark Hanson @mahahafilm
3 Apr 25

RT @UpdateTheGrids: anyway here's one of my favorite leslie nielsen bits https://t.co/wfwPMW3Apc