Articles by John Semley

Andy Barker, P.I. The Complete Series

PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2009

In a featurette included with this two-DVD set, Andy Barker, P.I. co-creator and executive producer Conan O'Brien claims that he originally...

Law Abiding Citizen

F. Gary Gray

PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2009

While Zack Snyder's 300 may have been hopelessly moronic, it did prove a point: don't piss off Gerard Butler. But the violence visited upon...

It's Garry Shandling's Show: The Complete Series

PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2009

It's impossible to overestimate Garry Shandling's influence on the landscape of American television. Where his critically revered HBO serie...

Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2009

Contrarian shit-disturber Michael Moore lobs another snide sermon right at the converted in his latest essay-doc, Capitalism: A Love Story....

Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day

Mike Clattenburg

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2009

As an epilogue to Showtime's long running and much loved Trailer Park Boys series, Countdown to Liquor Day flounders. Picking up two years...

Crank 2: High Voltage

Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor

PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2009

Everything Crank does, Crank2 does stupider. After falling 3,000 feet from a helicopter, indestructible contract killer Chev Chelios (Jason...

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

Werner Herzog

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2009

Produced as it is by David Lynch's Absurda Films and helmed by Werner Herzog, one might expect this film to bear the fruits of such an epic...

Harry Brown

Daniel Barber

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2009

Looks like Daniel Barber didn't get the memo regarding the death of the Western. Though everyone from Sam Peckinpah (with The Wild Bunch),...