John Semley

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• Posted Revue Cinema Program Revives Underrated Can-Con to Torontoist
  Warner (JR Bourne) in David Christensen's Six Figures. Snagging the critics’ pick for Best Revival Programming in NOW’s 2009 Best of T.O. round-up, the Revue Cinema’s suitably named Canadian Cinema in Revue program is...
• Posted Back in the Hall: Dave Foley to Torontoist
  Well before Broken Social Scene, Toronto birthed its most formidable indie collective: The Kids in the Hall. A staple of Hogtown’s emerging alt-comedy scene of the '80s and CBC and Comedy Network airwaves in the...
• Posted Images 2010 Puts the "Art" Back In "Obtuse Installation and Experimental Video Art" to Torontoist
  Image from John Greyson's Covered. If you’re really into stuff like “modes,” “forms,” “gestures,” “ephemera,” or the relationship between cinematic time and the empty vastness of gallery space more generally (or just like a...
• Commented on No Genies for <em>District 9</em>
  guys let's quit chasing each other's tails and write a movie about a bioengineered mutated infectious maple syrup, with a score by RUSH, starring elias koteas and colm feore as buddy cops, and just take every goddamn juno under the...
• Posted Back in the Hall: Mark McKinney to Torontoist
  Well before Broken Social Scene, Toronto birthed its most formidable indie collective: The Kids in the Hall. A staple of Hogtown’s emerging alt-comedy scene of the '80s and CBC and Comedy Network airwaves in the...