Articles by Robert Bell

Beyond the Hills

Cristian Mungiu

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2013

Based on the true story of a failed exorcism in a remote Orthodox monastery, Cristian Mungiu's latest work, Beyond the Hills, takes what co...

Emperor

Peter Webber

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2013

Following the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, the Americans (tasked with their traditional, cyclic, tendency to help a nation "rebui...

Ginger & Rosa

Sally Potter

PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2013

Navigating the sexually-charged and politically-shifting dynamic of '60s London, England, best friends Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alic...

Mad Ship

David Mortin

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2013

By now, the cinematic notion that all corporations are evil and greedy, making victims of good people, is a given. It's the sort of thing t...

The History of Future Folk

J. Anderson Mitchell & Jeremy Kipp Walker

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2013

Much like low-budget Sci-fi mash-ups Zonad and Top of the Food Chain, J. Anderson Mitchell and Jeremy Kipp Walker's charming genre hybrid,...

Late Bloomers

Julie Gavras

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2013

When Late Bloomers opens, Mary (Isabella Rosselini) is struggling to remember recent happenings, having no idea how she got from an event t...

Men at Work: The Complete First Season

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2013

By sheer virtue of being a TBS sitcom, expectations for Breckin Meyer's male-bonding comedy, Men at Work, are low. The network is notorious...

Ben-Hur: 50th Anniversary [Blu-Ray]

William Wyler

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2013

Ben-Hur (William Wyler's three-and-a-half-hour, record-breaking, bloated epic and winner of 11 Academy Awards — a record until Titani...