Articles by Robert Bell

Wadjda

Haifaa Al-Mansour

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2013

Wadjda (the first feature shot within the borders of Saudi Arabia, and the first directed by a Saudi woman at that) concerns itself with th...

Parkland

Peter Landesman

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2013

Peter Landesman (the journalist that wrote the allegedly fictitious New York Times article that inspired sex slave drama Trade) is again di...

Gravity

Alfonso Cuarón

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2013

Considering the auteur trajectory of Alfonso Cuarón's career, tackling tales of human futility in an effort to understand or communicate th...

15 Reasons to Live

Alan Zweig

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2013

As evidenced by the rather ambitious and indirectly presumptive title, Alan Zweig's documentary, 15 Reasons to Live, attempts to deconstruc...

Olympus Has Fallen [Blu-Ray]

Antoine Fuqua

PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2013

Amidst the brief, but highly enthusiastic supplemental material included with the Blu-Ray of absurdly nationalistic action thriller Olympus...

Elementary: The First Season

PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2013

With the recent success of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes franchise rejuvenation and the extreme, modernist advent of the television crime p...

The Place Beyond the Pines [Blu-Ray]

Derek Cianfrance

PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2013

Though detached, stoic and decidedly more affected than the white trash loudmouth he played in Blue Valentine, Ryan Gosling's character in...

The Kids from the Port

Alberto Morais

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2013

With its subdued political reflection and pointed eschewing of conventionality, being a slowly attentive and formally composed representati...