Articles by Robert Bell

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  Girl 6

  Spike Lee

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2012

  Noted as a "Spike Lee Joint," Girl 6, like She Hate Me or School Daze, is one of Lee's more forgettable titles, still adhering to his templ...

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  The Funhouse [Blu-Ray]

  Tobe Hooper

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2012

  Amidst the interviews included with this surprisingly comprehensive and cleaned-up Blu-Ray release of throwaway 1981 horror film The Funhou...

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  Free Men

  Ismaël Ferroukhi

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2012

  Ironically titled and playing off the oxymoronic concept of "freedom fighting," Ismaël Ferroukhi's historical thriller, Free Men, expo...

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  Small, Beautifully Moving Parts

  Lisa Robinson & Annie Howell

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2012

  Since we've been on an increasingly erratic cultural trajectory of technological improvement for the sheer sake of capability and market de...

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  The Kathy Griffin Collection: Red, White & Raw

  Paul Miller

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2012

  Featuring seven of Kathy Griffin's stand-up specials between 2009 and 2011, this comprehensive box set works as an ersatz time capsule of p...

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  The Barrens [Blu-Ray]

  Darren Lynn Bousman

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2012

  It's almost worth listening to the commentary track included with the Blu-Ray of The Barrens just to find out if director Darren Lynn Bousm...

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  Peeping Tom

  Michael Powell

  PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2012

  Known well in the world of film theory and academia, Peeping Tom, Michael Powell's acutely self-aware ode to the voyeuristic and implicitly...

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  Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours

  Rirkrit Tiravanija

  PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2012

  In interpreting and appreciating Rirkrit Tiravanija's two-and-a-half-hour observational documentary, Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours, it's...