Articles by John Semley

Adoration

Atom Egoyan

PUBLISHED May 7, 2009

Adoration bears all the telltale traces of an Egoyan film. Strained familial relationships, the technological mediation of memory and armch...

Bart Got A Room

Brian Hecker

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2009

If you struggle just to say a film's title, chances are it's unlikely to reward your embarrassment. Sure, there are a few special cases (mo...

Max Fleischer's Superman: 1941-1942

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2009

Though DC Comics and parent company Warner have previously issued a slew of mostly slapdash assemblies of the Fleischer Studios-produced Su...

Los Bastardos (The Bastards)

Amat Escalante

PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2009

The story of two undocumented Mexican day labourers moonlighting as one-time hit men-for-hire, The Bastards is visually exciting, with dire...