Articles by Robert Bell

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  Of Two Minds

  Douglas Blush & Lisa Klein

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2013

  Traditionally known as manic depressiveness, bipolar disorder presents as wildly vacillating mood swings that typically range between sever...

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  California Solo

  Marshall Lewy

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2013

  His ship of fleeting celebrity long sailed, ex-Britpop guitarist Lachlan MacAldonich (Robert Carlyle) spends his days in the titular Califo...

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  Stoker

  Chan-wook Park

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2013

  To reduce Chan-wook Park's English-language debut Stoker, to its superficial plot elements, focusing on the conventional aspects of its fem...

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  Violent Cop

  Takeshi Kitano

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2013

  Prior to focusing on aestheticism in film, but after his long time stint as television comedian "Beat" Takeshi, Kitano shifted his career i...

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  Dracula

  Francis Ford Coppola

  PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2013

  In part inspired by Bram Stoker's novel, and embellished with ideas from other incarnations of Dracula throughout the history of cinema, Fr...

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  Rise of the Planet of the Apes

  Rupert Wyatt

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2013

  Of the many possible parables and didactics that could have been injected into a Planet of the Apes origin story, it most likely wouldn't h...

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  Comforting Skin

  Derek Franson

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2013

  Vancouver 20-something urbanite Koffie (Victoria Bidewell) lives her life like an abundance of similarly socially motivated children of the...

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  The Parade

  Srdjan Dragojevic

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2013

  Taking a page from the book of Almodovar, Serbian director Srdjan Dragojevic's latest socio-political analysis, The Parade, makes campy and...