Articles by Robert Bell

How to Make Love Like an Englishman

Tom Vaughan

PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2015

A safe bet within the landscape of cinema is that any character living a life of excess indulgence, be it financial success or having a lic...

Boulevard

Dito Montiel

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2015

Boulevard is an odd project for Dito Montiel. He's probably best known for directing mediocre, faux-gritty street thug and cop fare like Th...

She's Funny That Way

Peter Bogdanovich

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2015

In a sense, Peter Bogdanovich's self-aware, throwback screwball comedy, She's Funny That Way, is the sort of dialogue- and character-driven...

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Marielle Heller

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2015

That Marielle Heller's feature directorial debut, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, an adaptation of the Phoebe Gloeckner animated novel, The Di...

Unfriended

Levan Gabriadze

PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2015

Thematically speaking, the high concept social media horror Unfriended is like a somewhat more composed and concise version of MTV's revamp...

Hot Pursuit

Anne Fletcher

PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2015

After the success of the female buddy comedy, The Heat, it was only a matter of time before movies like Hot Pursuit started popping up. It'...

The People Under the Stairs: Collector's Edition

Wes Craven

PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2015

When The People Under the Stairs was released, Wes Craven was a well-established horror director. The sixth Nightmare on Elm Street film ha...

The Knick: The Complete First Season

PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2015

In the pilot episode of Cinemax's medical drama period piece, The Knick, the Chief of Medicine at New York's famed Knickerbocker Hospital c...