Articles by Robert Bell

Return to Never Land [Blu-ray]

Robin Budd & Donovan Cook

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2013

Within the lexicon of perpetual arrested development sustaining fantastical wonder in Never Land, Captain Hook maintains a persisting fixat...

Killing Season [Blu-ray]

Mark Steven Johnson

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2013

During the brief interview snippets included with the Blu-ray release of the weirdly gratuitous and politically lazy thriller Killing Seaso...

Escape from Tomorrow

Randy Moore

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2013

Set entirely within the confines of Disneyland, Randy Moore's ambitious, extremely low-budget, directorial debut, Escape from Tomorrow, tak...

The Counselor

Ridley Scott

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2013

Cormac McCarthy's first original film screenplay, The Counselor, is, in structure, a thematically focused but ostensibly piecemeal assembla...

Kon-Tiki [Blu-ray]

Joachim Rønning & Epsen Sandberg

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2013

During Blu-Ray supplement "Kon-Tiki: The Incredible True Story," the directors, actors and consultants talk endlessly about the importance...

Modern Family: The Complete Fourth Season [Blu-ray]

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2013

When the fourth season of funnier-than-average, pseudo-progressive family sitcom Modern Family opens, it immediately threatens to jump the...

Behind the Candelabra [Blu-ray]

Steven Soderbergh

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2013

Though Behind the Candelabra, Stephen Soderbergh's biopic about the love affair between Liberace (Michael Douglas) and younger pretty boy S...

The Great Gatsby [Blu-ray]

Baz Luhrmann

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2013

Amidst the Blu-Ray supplemental material about fashion, dance styles and other superfluous, incidental factoids concerning '20s America, th...