Articles by John Semley

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  Black

  Pierre Laffargue

  PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2009

  As anyone who caught Liam Neeson throat-punching his way across Paris with crowd-pleasing aplomb in Pierre Morel's Taken can tell you, the...

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  Tetro

  Francis Ford Coppola

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2009

  Having divorced himself from his family, Angelo Tetrocini (Vincent Gallo) holes up in an impossibly quaint Our Town-version of Buenos Aires...

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  This Is Spinal Tap [Blu-Ray]

  Rob Reiner

  PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2009

  Widely regarded as the greatest mockumentary, rockumentary and straight-up comedy film ever made, This Is Spinal Tap celebrates its 25th an...

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  Pontypool

  Bruce McDonald

  PUBLISHED Aug 4, 2009

  Bruce McDonald, the closest thing Canada's got to a punk rock auteur, is adamant in stressing that Pontypool is not a zombie movie. In prom...

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  Funny People

  Judd Apatow

  PUBLISHED Jul 30, 2009

  Mulling around in his Xanadu-sized Hollywood mansion, George Simmons (Adam Sandler) is a famous comedian with all kinds of money and nobody...

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  Moon

  Duncan Jones

  PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2009

  In the near future, in the wake of that pesky peak oil predicament we keep hearing so much about, the bulk of earth's energy is provided by...

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  Dog Eat Dog

  Carlos Moreno

  PUBLISHED Jul 2, 2009

  As the first feature-length Columbian film to ever be invited to Sundance, Carlos Moreno's crime flick Dog Eat Dog is the sort of middling...

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  Knowing

  Alex Proyas

  PUBLISHED Jun 30, 2009

  In his latest half-baked star vehicle (and pay check), Nicolas Cage plays John Koestler, an MIT astrophysics prof whose "shit happens" appr...