Articles by John Semley

Max Headroom: The Complete Series

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2010

One should be careful labelling something "groundbreaking." Sure, it may apply at the time, but as time passes, said album, artwork, film,...

Grinderman Shed Light on "Unproduced and Raw" Second Album

PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2010

You can't stop Grinderman. With the recent news of their lengthy European and North American tour coming on top of announcements of t...

Insomnia [Blu-Ray]

Christopher Nolan

PUBLISHED Jul 30, 2010

Along with Mark Romanek's One Hour Photo, Christopher Nolan's Insomnia is one of two films from 2002 that took as its subject the idea of R...

Mother

Bong Joon-ho

PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2010

South Korean writer/director Bong Joon-Ho is three for three. Between 2003's serial killer caper Memories of Murder, 2006's revisionist mon...

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Jon Turteltaub

PUBLISHED Jul 15, 2010

The Sorcerer's Apprentice isn't a great film, but it's an important one. It's not hard to imagine that in the near future, professors of Fi...

Greenberg

Noah Baumbach

PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2010

A movie like Greenberg makes so many nasty assumptions about its audience that it's hard not to be offended while watching it. It's one thi...

The Eastwood Factor

Richard Schickel

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2010

Helmed by film historian Richard Schickel and narrated by (who else?) Morgan Freeman, The Eastwood Factor provides a nice overview of Ameri...

Entourage: Season 6 [Blu-Ray]

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2010

Six seasons in, you'd think HBO's Entourage would have run out of gas. The premise (A-list movie star shares his Hollywood highs-and-lows w...