Articles by Robert Bell

The Invisible Woman

Ralph Fiennes

PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2014

As outlined in Claire Tomalin's 1990 biography, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, the titular "woman," Ne...

Monsters University

Dan Scanlon

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2013

Included with the Blu-ray release of Pixar's latest unnecessary sequel, Monsters University, is a supplemental disc with an abundance of sp...

1st Love

Guillaume Sylvestre

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2013

A staple of Quebecois cinema of late — and a cyclic trajectory in Canadian cinema overall — is familial or marital destruction...

Mad Men: Season 6 [Blu-Ray]

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2013

After the fifth season of the award-winning AMC series Mad Men expertly handled introspective themes of inertia and complacency as enemy of...

Last Vegas

Jon Turteltaub

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2013

Much of Last Vegas's success is predicated upon one's belief that anyone over fifty is a sexless, dimwitted rube incapable of interpreting...

Halloween: 35th Anniversary Edition [Blu-Ray]

John Carpenter

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2013

Much like the 25th anniversary release and the 30th anniversary release, this particular digital incarnation of John Carpenter's much bally...

The Amityville Horror Trilogy [Blu-Ray]

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2013

When asked what attracted her to The Amityville Horror on the interview supplements included with this three-disc Blu-Ray set, Margot Kidde...

The Kings of Summer

Jordan Vogt-Roberts

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2013

Early in The Kings of Summer, in an effort to contextualize the underlying angst of the central characters and their varying dysfunction, F...