Articles by Robert Bell

I Am Breathing
Emma David & Morag McKinnon
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2013
As framed, Emma David and Morag McKinnon's documentary about Neil Platt, a father and husband diagnosed with ALS/MND (Motor Neurone Disease...
Margarita
Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2013
When Margarita opens, the titular Mexican-Canadian nanny (Nicole Correia Damude) is sinking into a hot tub with her girlfriend, Jane (Chris...
Fill the Void
Rama Burshstein
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2013
During every claustrophobic, static close-up in Fill the Void, most of which are shot within confined interiors, there's a sense of impriso...
The Bling Ring
Sofia Coppola
PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2013
Aside from her underappreciated, but far too concise and cold adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola's career...
Escape From Planet Earth 3D [Blu-Ray]
Cal Brunker
PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2013
During the opening moments of the poorly animated and readily forgettable piece of children's propaganda, a vaguely defined interplanetary...
Snitch [Blu-Ray]
Ric Roman Waugh
PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2013
Amidst the protracted special features included with the Blu-Ray of Snitch, stuntman-turned-director Ric Waugh passionately outlines his in...
Warm Bodies [Blu-Ray]
Jonathan Levine
PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2013
If Romeo was a Communist zombie, Juliet a Capitalist human, William Shakespeare conscious of the modern political (and past German) climate...
Life is Sweet
Mike Leigh
PUBLISHED Jun 11, 2013
During the hour-long audio recording of an interview conducted in 1991 at the National Film Theatre, just following the release of Life is...