Articles by Robert Bell

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  The Man with the Golden Gun

  Guy Hamilton

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2012

  Though director Guy Hamilton was the man responsible for Goldfinger, which, in the early years, set the stage as the quintessential Bond fi...

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  Modesty Blaise

  Joseph Losey

  PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2012

  Released in 1966, the adaptation of the Peter O'Donnell comic strip, Modesty Blaise, took the satire route to the existing template of main...

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  ParaNorman [Blu-Ray]

  Chris Butler & Sam Fell

  PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2012

  For the purpose of making concise and accessible the primary thematic intentions of darkly comic family movie ParaNorman, the motivations f...

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  The Suicide Shop

  Patrice Leconte

  PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2012

  Though based on the Jean Teulé novel of the same name, Patrice Leconte's 3D animated adaptation is a more compressed and streamlined...

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  Anna Karenina

  Joe Wright

  PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2012

  Though Joe Wright's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's widely acclaimed staple, Anna Karenina, is a work of theatricality, complete with curtains,...

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  Tomorrow Never Dies

  Roger Spottiswoode

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2012

  With the wide critical and commercial success of GoldenEye looming, the pressure was on for a widely marketable, yet high quality, follow-u...

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  The World is Not Enough

  Michael Apted

  PUBLISHED Nov 27, 2012

  Widely considered to be one of the worst Bond films of all time, and more specifically the worst of the Brosnan entries—presumably to...

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  A One-Way to Antibes

  Richard Hobert

  PUBLISHED Nov 25, 2012

  Slightly more interesting than the film itself is the way that Richard Hobert's standard road-trip comedy-drama, A One-Way to Antibes, port...