Articles by Robert Bell

The Great Escape [Blu-Ray]

John Sturges

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2013

Though the compressed, but serviceable Blu-Ray release of 1963 classic The Great Escape has no menus or bookmark function, making any mid-m...

Identity Thief [Blu-Ray]

Seth Gordon

PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2013

Since, in the world of Identity Thief, expository plot points and comedy are two entirely different things, the plot set-up and character-d...

Open Road [Blu-Ray]

Marcio Garcia

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2013

In the "Making of" supplement included with the Blu-Ray of forgettable road movie drama Open Road, several actors and crew members mention...

Jurassic Park 3D [Blu-Ray]

Steven Spielberg

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2013

Though the mixture of puppetry and (at the time) nascent CGI may look somewhat dated 20 years after the fact, there is a core assertion wit...

Beautiful Creatures [Blu-Ray]

Richard LaGravenese

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2013

During the climactic battle of Beautiful Creatures (the first of four instalments of The Caster Chronicles), a hardcore Republican schoolma...

Southland: The Complete Second, Third and Fourth Seasons

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2013

After Southland got lost in the mid-season replacement shuffle in 2009, filling in an end of season gap before summer reality shows and oth...

The Lesser Blessed

Anita Doron

PUBLISHED May 30, 2013

A recent transplant to the sparsely populated Fort Simmer, Northwest Territories, alienated teenager Larry Sole (Joel Evans) notes in the o...

Blancanieves

Pablo Berger

PUBLISHED May 30, 2013

In theory, investigating the evolution of cinematic grammar through the regressive recreation of a silent film should conceivably act as a...