Articles by Robert Bell

Bates Motel: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2013

During the Paley Center Panel Discussion included with the Blu-Ray set of Bates Motel, a journalist asks series creator Carlton Cuse (Lost)...

Carrie

Kimberly Peirce

PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2013

In theory, a Carrie remake helmed by Kimberly Peirce (the director of Boys Don't Cry) should, even if not entirely successful, have a moder...

Fill the Void

Rama Burshstein

PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2013

Unlike most feature film debuts, Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void is an assured amalgamation of content and form. As 18-year-old Shira (Hadas...

Thanks for Sharing

Stuart Blumberg

PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2013

Without any sense of subtlety or consciousness for his muddled thematic trajectory, Stuart Blumberg opens Thanks for Sharing (his directori...

Cottage Country

Peter Wellington

PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2013

Though the custom spreads beyond the borders of the second-largest country in the world, there's something distinctly Canadian about the ad...

12 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen

PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2013

With just three films under his belt, director Steve McQueen has established an auteur vision of presenting broad, vaguely political issues...

Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure

PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2013

Since Johannes Vermeer, an artist perceived as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, has only 34 works universally attribut...

Two and a Half Men: The Complete Tenth Season

PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2013

Throughout the ninth season of exceedingly mediocre and aggravatingly broad sitcom Two and a Half Men, the biggest obstacle was adapting an...