Articles by Robert Bell

Amour Fou

Jessica Hausner

PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2015

Following the first public screening of her feature directorial debut, Lovely Rita, at TIFF back in 2001, Jessica Hausner invited questions...

Miss You Already

Catherine Hardwicke

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2015

There is a very large, very specific demographic of people that will absolutely love Catherine Hardwicke's ode to the gal pal weepie genre,...

Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season Two

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2015

The latest in an increasingly long-line of workplace idiosyncrasy comedies, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, is the very embodiment of serviceable, comp...

25 April

Leanne Pooley

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2015

The 25th day of April, Anzac Day, marks the anniversary of the initial campaign that led to major casualties for New Zealand and Australian...

Girls Lost

Alexandra-Therese Keining

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2015

When Alexandra-Therese Keining's third feature film, Girls Lost, opens, there's a title card denoting that conventional thinkers probably w...

We Monsters

Sebastian Ko

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2015

When Sebastian Ko's character and morality study, We Monsters, begins, it quickly posits a situational conundrum. While driving his daughte...

Pawn Sacrifice

Edward Zwick

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2015

Edward Zwick's biopic about the renowned American World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer, Pawn Sacrifice, is a standard, serviceable true story...

Goodnight Mommy

Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2015

Goodnight Mommy is difficult to discuss without spoiling.   The eerie and disturbing debut film by Veronika Franz, a long-time collaborator...