John Semley
John Semley lives and works in Toronto. He is a books columnist at the Globe & Mail newspaper and the author of "This Is A Book About The Kids In The Hall" (ECW Press).
Virtue signaling: Golden Globes edition
Claims of racism dog a Golden Globe-nominated performance, revealing the bias of the accusers
John Semley
Justice League’s punch fails to connect
No room for softness: Director Zack Snyder delivers “Justice League,” the heroes we deserve
John Semley
Hands off Thor, Pepe!
“Thor: Ragnarok” is a hammer in the face to the alt-right
John Semley
More Human Than Human
Does the score of “Blade Runner 2049″ have ambitions to rival Vangelis’ original?
John Semley
Morrissey’s Beautiful Aloofness
How the ever-bigmouthed crooner has spun criticism into martyrdom
John Semley
The motherlode
The mythic maximalism of Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!”
John Semley
Victory for “Dunkirk”
The success of “Dunkirk” is proof that the World War II myth machine is still alive and well
John Semley
Tim & Eric have no limits
Celebrating a decade of disgust with Tim and Eric
John Semley
Who Actually Makes the movies?
What does the director switch on “Justice League” mean for the auteur theory?
John Semley
“Stalker” is an important yawn
Why Andrei Tarkovsky’s interminably dull 1979 sci-fi masterpiece “Stalker” is the movie we need right now
John Semley
Hate-watching good taste away
How to re-watch “Entourage”
John Semley
our empty longing for the ’90s
CNN’s “The Nineties”: Empty nostalgia for a decade we should let die
John Semley
“RoboCop” is 30
Fascism for liberals: “RoboCop” at 30 and the problem with prescience
John Semley
Enough “Twin Peaks” theories!
Enough with your “Twin Peaks” theories already, you’re ruining it
John Semley
The Dead is not dead yet
I hate myself for loving the Dead movie
John Semley
Scientism sucks
I f**king hate science
John Semley
Woke critics take heed
How reprioritizing aesthetics in formal criticism can save the world
John Semley
Aging, just not gracefully
Anger is an energy: The world’s best live band is made up of two middle-age British blokes in sweatpants
John Semley
Apatow breaks with bro comedy
“Love” and the rise of the bigendered sitcom
John Semley
Wolverine’s Canadian core
“Logan” proves Wolverine is the comics’ most Canadian superhero — and not in the way you think
John Semley
Adrift in a foreign comedy
Brief Encounters: The pleasures of being lost in translation
John Semley
Animal Cruelty
A Dog’s Purposelessness: Alleged torture on the set of “A Dog’s Purpose” is disgusting, but unsurprising
John Semley
Do bad times make great art?
Bad times make great art. Worlds of light and shadow: The reproduction of liberalism in Weimar Germany
John Semley
Atheist’s guide to “Silence”
An atheist’s guide to Scorsese’s “Silence”: You don’t need faith to be astonished by the faithful
John Semley
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