Articles by John Semley
The Conversation [Blu-Ray]
Francis Ford Coppola
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2011
When mapping the high watermarks of American filmmaking in the '70s, The Conversation tends to get lost in the shuffle between Coppola's ot...
Demon's Claws
Lost in the Desert – Part Deux
PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2011
The thing about garage rock (and by extension, garage punk) is that it's not really an album-oriented genre. How many essential modern gara...
Cobra [Blu-Ray]
George P. Cosmatos
PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2011
Say what you will about Sly Stallone, but the guy may be America's last sentimentalist ― usually, anyways. Films he's written, starre...
The Feelies
Here Before
PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2011
There's a lot of suspense surrounding the release of the Feelies' first studio album in two decades, at least among the half-dozen Feelies...
B-Lines
B-Lines
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2011
For the most part, trying to strike a balance between hardcore and pop punk is asinine; it's like trying to find the middle ground between...
The Fleshtones feat. Lenny Kaye
Brooklyn Sound Solution
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2011
Man oh man, you've got to be some kind of ballsy dad rock bar band to think you can get away with covering "Day Tripper" on this side of th...
Excalibur [Blu-Ray]
John Boorman
PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2011
John Boorman's a bit of an odd duck. After establishing himself in Hollywood directing Lee Marvin in the exceptional Point Blank (1967) and...
The Dirtbombs
Party Store
PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2011
Party Store is being described as a "companion piece" to the Dirtbombs' 2001 LP, Ultraglide in Black (one of the five best records of the l...
