Articles by Robert Bell

Hit & Miss: The Complete First Season

PUBLISHED May 9, 2013

In the amateurishly shot and conducted interview segments included with the 6-episode DVD set of the Irish television drama, Hit & Miss, se...

Not Fade Away [Blu-Ray]

David Chase

PUBLISHED May 6, 2013

Following the first global postwar economic crisis in the late '50s, the U.S. was faced with mass unemployment and excess capacity. In eco...

Just the Right Amount of Violence

John Bang Carlsen

PUBLISHED May 4, 2013

Early in Just the Right Amount of Violence, John Bang Carlsen's coyly pious bit of vérité experimentation, there's a scene where interventi...

Felix Austria!

Christine Beebe

PUBLISHED May 4, 2013

Brian Pfeifle (now known as "Felix" Pfeifle after a legal name change) is, like many modern middle-class homosexuals, a rampant aesthete, t...

Quality Balls - The David Steinberg Story

Barry Avrich

PUBLISHED May 3, 2013

In a way, the works of director Barry Avrich reflect his background in advertising and marketing perfectly, playing as the sort of uninspir...

Still Mine

Michael McGowan

PUBLISHED May 2, 2013

Though his auteur trajectory treads dangerously close to twee Canadian Heritage propaganda, having a provincial vibe in its humble quest to...

The Kill Team

Dan Krauss

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2013

In 2010, enthused American patriot—and underweight teenager—Adam Winfield eagerly enlisted in the U.S. Army, excited to uphold...

Just as I Remember

Andrew Moir

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2013

When Just as I Remember director Andrew Moir was four-years-old, his father discovered he had ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or, to som...