Articles by Robert Bell

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  Putin's Kiss

  Lise Birk Pedersen

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2013

  Starting with a brief history of political change in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lise Birk Pedersen's Putin's Kiss se...

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  The Patience Stone

  Atiq Rahimi

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2013

  Though based on his acclaimed novel of the same name, Atiq Rahimi's cinematic adaptation of The Patience Stone has the monologue-driven lyr...

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  Prison [Blu-Ray]

  Renny Harlin

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2013

  Almost as interesting as the film is the extensive new "Hard Time: The Making of Prison" supplement included with the Shout! Factory Blu-Ra...

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  The Dynamiter

  Matthew Gordon

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2013

  Fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick (William Ruffin) isn't a role model student or citizen. Left to his own devices after his mother has run...

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  Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome [Blu-Ray]

  David Eick & Michael Taylor

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2013

  Originally, Blood & Chrome was conceived as a videogame narrative, taking the tagged on, and mostly unnecessary, backstory of William Adama...

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  Deadfall [Blu-Ray]

  Stefan Ruzowitzky

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2013

  In the brief interview supplement included with the Deadfall Blu-Ray, director Stefan Ruzowitzky discusses making a movie that vacillates b...

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  Anna Karenina [Blu-Ray]

  Joe Wright

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2013

  Much like Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz, Joe Wright's Anna Karenina suffers from the misfortune of dominant ideology and blogger influence...

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  Tower

  Kazik Radwanski

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2013

  Filmed almost entirely in close-up, Kazik Radwanski's feature film debut, Tower, is an exercise in stylistic experimentation, isolating us...