Articles by Robert Bell

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  The Hi-Lo Country

  Stephen Frears

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

  Throughout his career, Stephen Frears has routinely reiterated his preoccupation with duality and change, often depicting passive ideologic...

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  Hope Springs [Blu-Ray]

  David Frankel

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

  About halfway through David Frankel's latest accessible, mainstream look at mortal disappointment and quotidian compromise, Hope Springs, t...

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  Up 3D [Blu-Ray]

  Pete Docter & Bob Peterson

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

  Within the opening moments of Pixar's Up, a home video montage establishes the entire romantic trajectory of Carl Fredericksen's (voiced by...

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  Pitch Perfect [Blu-Ray]

  Jason Moore

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

  In essence, structure, formula, language and even message, bastardized, a cappella, cinematic Glee variation Pitch Perfect is a straightfor...

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  Meet the Fokkens

  Gabrielle Provaas

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

  Although disorganized to the point of incoherence, Gabrielle Provaas's standard issue, subject-facing documentary about the Fokken twins, L...

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  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  Stanley Kubrick

  PUBLISHED Dec 10, 2012

  When Stanley Kubrick originally started adapting Peter George's novel Red Alert, which was, in part, inspired by and drawn from the writer'...

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  The Client [Blu-Ray]

  Joel Schumacher

  PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2012

  Joel Schumacher (the man that turned the Batman franchise into a campy, queer spectacle of badness) has always had a weird preoccupation wi...

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  Moonraker

  Lewis Gilbert

  PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2012

  Following the success of Star Wars in 1977, an abundance of throwaway, unremarkable imitators were released throughout the late '70s and ea...