Articles by Robert Bell

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  Safe Haven

  Lasse Hallström

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2013

  Though little differs between the various adaptations — now seven — of Nicholas Sparks's novels, the formula has yet to tire it...

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  Shadows of Liberty

  Jean-Philippe Tremblay

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2013

  It's redundant to point out that by definition, "liberty," whether individual or collective, isn't technically possible in a community of s...

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  The Innocents

  Jack Clayton

  PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2013

  In The Innocents, Jack Clayton's 1961 adaptation of Henry James' Turn of the Screw, some of the more ambiguous elements of the source text...

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  Point Break

  Kathryn Bigelow

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2013

  Though still early in her career, coming just four years after her critically renowned cult hit Near Dark--a staple of a feminist and auteu...

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  Amazing Ocean 3D [Blu-Ray]

  Benjamin Eicher & Timo Joh. Mayer

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2013

  To be clear, the 55-minute 3D Amazing Ocean Blu-Ray is ostensibly a technology tester and filler product to give away with new 3D players t...

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  Lightning Bug [Blu-Ray]

  Robert Hall

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2013

  In basic terms, Robert Hall's semiautobiographical, Southern gothic, coming-of-age bit of Americana, Lightning Bug, is a standard underdog...

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  The Awakening [Blu-Ray]

  Nick Murphy

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2013

  During the brief interview snippets included as the sole Blu-Ray supplement, actress Rebecca Hall and director Nick Murphy discuss the vast...

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  Celeste & Jesse Forever

  Lee Toland Krieger

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2013

  When Celeste & Jesse Forever opens, the titular couple have technically separated, but spend all of their time together amiably. Though the...