Articles by Robert Bell
The Swell Season
Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins & Carlo Mirabella-Davis
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Back in 2007, one of the big bandwagons to hop on was that of championing songwriting collaborators Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, the h...
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Stephen Daldry
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Reducing Stephen Daldry's adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, to a play on its title, Extremel...
Crazy, Stupid, Love [Blu-Ray]
Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Beyond the craziness and stupidity of the titular love, this milquetoast, occasionally meandering star-power comedy suggests that the relen...
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
What's interesting about this seemingly irreverent comedy from screenwriting and nascent directorial duo Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Bad...
Winnie the Pooh
Stephen J. Anderson & Don Hall
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
I've never been sure what to make of Winnie the Pooh's single-minded, borderline sociopathic pursuit of honey, or "hunny," rather. Seemingl...
Colony
Carter Gunn & Ross McDonnell
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
I recently had the pleasure of exchanging a dialogue with a staunch conservative who asserted that "colony collapse disorder" – a rec...
A Matter of Size
Sharon Maymon & Erez Tadmor
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Now that it's no longer "cool" to beat up queers or dole out racial slurs to get that fragile ego pumped with fleeting validation and self-...
The Hateful Eight
Quentin Tarantino
PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2015
Ever the nostalgic romanticist, Quentin Tarantino offers up his latest film, The Hateful Eight — his eighth in what he claims will be ten f...
