Articles by Robert Bell

Shameless: The Complete Second Season [Blu-Ray]

PUBLISHED May 9, 2013

Early in the first season of Shameless, the American remake of the pitch-black British comedy of the same name, many sensationalistic tacti...

Broken City [Blu-Ray]

Allen Hughes

PUBLISHED May 9, 2013

On the half-hour "Putting it All Together" supplement included with the Blu-Ray of Broken City, director Allen Hughes describes his cinemat...

Gangster Squad [Blu-Ray]

Ruben Fleischer

PUBLISHED May 9, 2013

In a strange attempt to pad the supplemental materials available with the Gangster Squad Blu-Ray, short documentary Rogue's Gallery —...

A Royal Affair [Blu-Ray]

Nikolaj Arcel

PUBLISHED May 9, 2013

In 17th and 18th Century Europe, the Age of Enlightenment challenged superstition and tradition, ushering in scientific thought and reason...

I Declare War

Jason Lapeyre & Robert Wilson

PUBLISHED May 9, 2013

The rules in war are simple: two teams set up camp with a respective flag that the opposing team needs to capture to win. If anyone is shot...

Blackbird

Jason Buxton

PUBLISHED May 9, 2013

Relying mostly on his performers and the story, Blackbird (Jason Buxton's surprisingly adept feature film debut) tackles the hot button iss...

The Great Gatsby

Baz Luhrmann

PUBLISHED May 9, 2013

As a text demonstrating the concepts of artifice and a metaphor for those under pupillage — one that deconstructs the Western mytholo...

Peeples

Tina Gordon Chism

PUBLISHED May 9, 2013

Often, the urban remake of a populist, ostensibly white comedy or genre film serves as an entertaining form of didacticism, commenting on t...