Articles by Robert Bell

Child's Play

Tom Holland

PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2012

As was the status quo for the '80s, Child's Play, like most horror films of the era, reiterated the dominant cultural anxiety of familial d...

Pixar Short Films: Collection 2 [Blu-Ray]

PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2012

As a collection of shorts, there's little to connect the series of animation experiments and promotional materials included on this disc be...

Brave: 3D [Blu-Ray]

Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman and Steve Purcell

PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2012

Bookending Brave, the latest animated Pixar offering, are brief, seemingly tagged-on voiceovers about the nature of destiny and fate as som...

All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence

Nicolás Pereda

PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2012

Though the films of Nicolás Pereda are typically quite loose, having more to do with the tone and the impressions of silence between events...

Demons

Ain Mäeots

PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2012

Starting with the end of one story and the beginning of another, deliberately manipulating timelines to fit the narrative and theme, Estoni...

Granny's Funeral

Bruno Podalydés

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2012

Though France is known for pushing the boundaries of cinema, both in form and content, creating devastating dramas and an abundance of cha...

Inch'Allah

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2012

In an effort to remove bias and broad politics, although subtler principles and philosophy are omnipresent, this pseudo-redundant look at t...

Elles

Malgorzata Szumowska

PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2012

Though titillating in concept and certainly intriguing from a sociological standpoint, narratives about the commodification of the human bo...