Articles by Robert Bell

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  The Essential Supernatural: On the Road with Sam and Dean Winchester

  By Nicholas Knight

  PUBLISHED Dec 22, 2012

  Over the course of seven seasons of Supernatural, demon hunting brothers, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles), have g...

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  Barbara

  Christian Petzold

  PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2012

  Set in the midst of Cold War-era East Germany, Christian Petzold's decidedly counter-symbolic character drama, Barbara, focuses on provinci...

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  Les Misérables

  Tom Hooper

  PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2012

  Given one word to sum up the operatic, bombastic and entirely humourless spectacle that is this musical adaptation of Victor Hugo novel Les...

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  Les Misérables [Blu-Ray]

  Bille August

  PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2012

  Although competent and occasionally effective, Bergman protégé Bille August's straight (read: non-musical) adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les...

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  Rust & Bone

  Jacques Audiard

  PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2012

  Having been adapted from a series of short stories by Craig Davidson, Rust & Bone (Jacques Audiard's follow-up to the tense, but largely ov...

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  The Impossible

  Juan Antonio Bayona

  PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2012

  Careful to open the film with the apropos gravity of real life tragedy, denoting that the chaos about to unfold is based on a true story th...

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  Nitro Circus: The Movie

  Gregg Godfrey & Jeremy Rawle

  PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2012

  Considering that the demographic attracted to a movie like Nitro Circus, which is essentially little more than a cluster of Peter Pans driv...

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  Trouble with the Curve [Blu-Ray]

  Robert Lorenz

  PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2012

  After learning of a potentially irreparable visual impediment and establishing an isolated, hermit-y bachelor lifestyle — eating Spam...