Articles by Robert Bell

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  The Spy Who Loved Me

  Lewis Gilbert

  PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2012

  Though liberally borrowing its central plot from the earlier Bond installment, You Only Live Twice, which was similarly directed by Lewis G...

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  Octopussy

  John Glen

  PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2012

  Octopussy, the provocatively titled thirteenth addition to the Bond franchise is a bit of a miscalculated contradiction of sorts, having th...

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  Day of the Dead

  George A. Romero

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2012

  Having its budget cut in half just prior to production, George A. Romero's third installment to the Living Dead trilogy, Day of the Dead ,...

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  For Your Eyes Only

  John Glen

  PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2012

  Being the twelfth Bond film and the fifth to feature Roger Moore, For Your Eyes Only, though financially successful at the time, marked a s...

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  You Only Live Twice

  Lewis Gilbert

  PUBLISHED Oct 27, 2012

  The fifth 007 film featuring Sean Connery as the MI6 agent James Bond is probably most recognizable today as the primary source for the Aus...

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  Monkey Shines

  George A. Romero

  PUBLISHED Oct 27, 2012

  Having a knack for modifying his style to reflect the times, George Romero's late '80s adaptation of the Michael Stewart novel, Monkey Shin...

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  Night of the Living Dead

  George A. Romero

  PUBLISHED Oct 27, 2012

  Originally conceived as an ersatz adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel, I Am Legend, after comic drafts of the screenplay involving spa...

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  Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

  Michael J. Bassett

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2012

  Something consistent throughout the Silent Hill games, which original Silent Hill director Christophe Gans understood, is the ominous sense...