Articles by Robert Bell

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  Arbitrage [Blu-Ray]

  Nicholas Jarecki

  PUBLISHED Jan 4, 2013

  Though thematically similar to an abundance of other politically motivated titles (In Time, The Dark Knight Rises, Margin Call, Trespass) o...

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  Cosmopolis [Blu-Ray]

  David Cronenberg

  PUBLISHED Jan 4, 2013

  Cosmopolis (Don DeLillo's pseudo-prescient 2003 novella deconstructing the dot-com bubble burst) is, in essence, a series of highly dramati...

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  Promised Land

  Gus Van Sant

  PUBLISHED Jan 3, 2013

  Noting the ever-expanding ubiquity of fracking, or induced hydraulic fracturing, wherein pressurized fluids are pumped into a wellbore, for...

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  The Dark Knight Manual: Tools, Weapons, Vehicles & Documents from the Batcave

  By Brandon T. Snider

  PUBLISHED Dec 30, 2012

  Coinciding, in part, with the release of the third instalment of Christopher Nolan's widely praised Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises,...

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  The Woman in Black [Blu-ray]

  James Watkins

  PUBLISHED Dec 29, 2012

  Having been adapted as a TV movie in the late '80s and performed on stage and on the radio in its native England, Susan Hill's novel, The W...

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  Not Fade Away

  David Chase

  PUBLISHED Dec 27, 2012

  Starting in 1960s New Jersey, around the time when the Rolling Stones entered the populist lexicon, David Chase's feature—post-Sopran...

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  The Godfather: The Official Motion Picture Archives

  By Peter Cowie

  PUBLISHED Dec 25, 2012

  Having grown in prestige and cultural ubiquity over the past four decades since its release, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather holds a p...

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  Batmobile: The Complete History

  By Mark Cotta Vaz

  PUBLISHED Dec 24, 2012

  As the title and cover art—a glossy, charcoal-coloured image of the Batmobile used in Christopher Nolan's trilogy of films—sugg...