Articles by Robert Bell

Jurassic Park 3D

Steven Spielberg

PUBLISHED Apr 4, 2013

Twenty years ago, when Jurassic Park first hit the big screens, pushing the boundaries of visual effects and immersive, fantastical enterta...

Womb

Benedek Fliegauf

PUBLISHED Apr 4, 2013

Because of the dominant, and rigidly singular, male voice of film criticism, a movie like Womb (wherein a woman takes the DNA of her dead l...

Veep: The Complete First Season [Blu-Ray]

PUBLISHED Apr 4, 2013

For anyone familiar with Armando Iannucci's farcical, deadpan send-up of the Blair administration, The Thick of It, the caustic, frenzied s...

Roseanne: The Complete Seventh Season

PUBLISHED Apr 4, 2013

By the seventh season, the glory days of Roseanne had mostly passed: Lecy Goranson had gone off to college leaving Sarah Chalke to play the...

Ésimésac

Luc Picard

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2013

The titular Ésimésac (Nicola-Frank Vachon) is the youngest child of a poor rural family in mid-19th Century Quebec—Saint-Élie-de-Caxt...

Hollow Man/Hollow Man 2 [Blu-ray]

Paul Verhoeven & Claudio Fah

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2013

If the original Hollow Man were to come out now, after the terrifying advent of the superhero movie raped our culture with repressed male i...

Small Blind

Simon Galiero

PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2013

Small Blind, the second feature film from Quebecios director, Simon Galiero, is a roughly assembled but timely work with modest, artistic a...

L'Affaire Dumont

Daniel Grou

PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2013

Reiterating his auteur assertion of judicial fallibility and the corruption of innocence, French-Canadian director Daniel Grou (10 ½, 7 Day...