Articles by John Semley

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  Cyrus

  Jay and Mark Duplass

  PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2010

  Cyrus has all the makings of a Duplass brothers film, and by extension, a "Sundance" film. It's self-consciously quirky, overly precious, s...

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  Bad Boys [Blu-Ray]

  Michael Bay

  PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2010

  In a few ways, Bad Boys is a pretty charming film. Though post-Pearl Harbor, and especially post-Transformers 2, Michael Bay has become a w...

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  War of the Worlds [Blu-Ray]

  Steven Spielberg

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2010

  What classic science fiction stories lack in depth, character development and plausibility they make up for in spades with their allegorica...

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  Edge of Darkness [Blu-Ray]

  Martin Campbell

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2010

  Ever since Taken revived the school-of-Death Wish revenge thriller in 2008, there's been a marked revival in bloody, "this time it's person...

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  Ichi The Killer [Blu-Ray]

  Takashi Miike

  PUBLISHED May 6, 2010

  There's a time and a place for appreciating Ichi The Killer. And if you're not a smug, smart-alecky high school kid who wants to flatter hi...

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  Gunless

  William Phillips

  PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2010

  Back in 2003, writer/director William Phillips dumped Foolproof into theatres: a fairly benign piece of Can-Con starring Ryan Reynolds and...

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  Minority Report [Blu-Ray]

  Steven Spielberg

  PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2010

  As a featurette included with this set makes abundantly clear, seminal sci-fi scribe Philip K. Dick suffered in obscurity during his lifeti...

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  Ninja Assassin [Blu-Ray]

  James McTeigue

  PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2010

  When pressed to name the films that influenced Ninja Assassin in an interview hyping the film's theatrical release late last fall, director...