Articles by Robert Bell

Computer Chess

Andrew Bujalski

PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2013

Andrew Bujalski (a noted proponent of the mumblecore movement) has always had a preoccupation with language and its many forms, spoken and...

Crystal Fairy

Sebastian Silva

PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2013

Crystal Fairy (the first of two Sebastián Silva movies featuring Michael Cera in 2013) happened entirely by chance. While Cera was staying...

Fruitvale Station

Ryan Coogler

PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2013

On January 1st, 2009, just moments after everyone celebrated the dawn of a new year, an eye witness cell phone video captured a struggle be...

The To Do List

Maggie Carey

PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2013

Touted as a raunchy female coming-of-age comedy, Funny or Die Presents writer Maggie Carey's directorial debut, The To Do List is essential...

Hatchet III

BJ McDonnell

PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2013

In its ostensibly banal, imitative form, the third installment of Adam Green's Hatchet franchise—this time helmed by professional cam...

Shun Li and the Poet

Andrea Segre

PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2013

In a way, Andrea Segre's first narrative film is like a politically charged Lost in Translation, only without the many musically driven mon...

Warehouse 13: Season Four

PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2013

When the fourth season of this comic, historically conscious sci-fi series, Warehouse 13, opens, Pete (Eddie McClintock), Myka (Joanne Kell...

I Declare War

Jason Lapeyre & Robert Wilson

PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2013

During the opening moments of the deceptively simple, extremely low budget comedy and social observation piece, I Declare War, the rules fo...