Articles by Robert Bell

Funny Girl [Blu-Ray]

William Wyler

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2013

Funny Girl is over two-and-a-half hours. That's two-and-a-half hours of Barbra Streisand singing, dancing, smiling, acting goofy and behavi...

Inch'Allah

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2013

Chloé (Evelyne Brochu), a Quebecois doctor working within Palestinian territory, travels back and forth across the West Bank border, where...

No [Blu-Ray]

Pablo Larrain

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2013

Following the Chilean constitutional referendum in 1980, which modified the 1925 constitution to give Military Junta leader Augusto Pinoche...

The Newsroom: The Complete First Season [Blu-Ray]

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2013

In the opening scene of the pilot episode of Aaron Sorkin's latest televised rant, The Newsroom, notoriously ambiguous, crowd-pleasing news...

Hannah Arendt

Margarethe von Trotta

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2013

Having already established her knack for making a compelling academic and philosophical narrative from the life of a challenging historical...

Frances Ha

Noah Baumbach

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2013

An idiosyncratic free spirit and aspiring dancer, the titular Frances (Greta Gerwig) – whose surname remains a deliberate mystery unt...

Monsters University

Dan Scanlon

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2013

Amidst the array of populist animation studios, Pixar's blend of thematic complexity, literary wits, Looney Toons anarchy and cutting edge...

Ill Manors

Ben Drew

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2013

That Ill Manors plays as a particularly laughable and exploitive hip-hop music video montage isn't much of a surprise, considering that its...