Articles by Robert Bell

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  Repast

  Mikio Naruse

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  Famed Japanese author Fumiko Hayashi's final unfinished novel Repast was the first of many adaptations of her works by director Mikio Narus...

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  The Marine: Homefront [Blu-Ray]

  Scott Wiper

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  During the opening propaganda recruit video, masked conveniently as a back story on Middle-American, meat and potatoes robot Jake Carter (W...

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  Waiting for Lightning

  Jacob Rosenberg

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  The premise of Jacob Rosenberg's documentary about skateboarding aficionado Danny Way is that of an overblown stunt. Having beat world reco...

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  Off-White Lies

  Maya Kenig

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  Set in 2006, using the Israel-Hezbollah (second Lebanon) War as a backdrop, Maya Kenig's sitcom-premise-made-dramedy of sorts uses a templa...

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  This Must Be the Place

  Paulo Sorrentino

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  Former rock star Cheyenne (Sean Penn), a gothed-out, Robert Smith-like man-child with a penchant for mumbling world observations, lives off...

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  Playing For Keeps

  Gabriele Muccino

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  Playing for Keeps is an astonishingly ugly film. Shots are out of focus; the colour is consistently washed out; and there's absolutely no v...

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  Hitchcock [Blu-Ray]

  Sacha Gervasi

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  Amidst the many supplemental materials provided with the Hitchcock Blu-Ray — on make-up, casting, recreating history and bringing the...

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  Smashed [Blu-Ray]

  James Ponsoldt

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  Grade-school teacher Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and husband Charlie (Aaron Paul) like to have a good time. They get drunk and sing kara...