Articles by Robert Bell

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  Courage

  Greg Zglinski

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2012

  Though titled Courage, referencing thrill-seeker Alfred's (Robert Wieckiewicz) inability to step in and help as his brother Jerzy (Lukasz S...

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  Summer of Goliath

  Nicolás Pereda

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2012

  As Mexico-born Nicolás Pereda's fifth film, Summer of Goliath, unfolds, the subtle blurring between fact and fiction, or documentary and na...

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  Red Dawn

  Dan Bradley

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2012

  In concept, the seeming impetus behind the unnecessary remaking of thunderously American mid-'80s Cold War-paranoia action film Red Dawn is...

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  Goldeneye

  Martin Campbell

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2012

  In the six years since Licence to Kill underperformed at the box office and turned the Bond franchise into a humourless bloodbath, MGM/UA w...

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  Juntos

  Nicolás Pereda

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2012

  Something consistent through the works of Nicolás Pereda is the visual and thematic trajectory of being lost, or being at odds with ones su...

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  The Strange Case of Angelica

  Manoel de Oliveira

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2012

  Though in his 103rd year, Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira is still churning out films without sign of slowing down, expanding on his...

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  Children of the Green Dragon

  Bence Miklauzic

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2012

  Without substantial variation from the "odd couple" format, wherein an unlikely duo forms a bond that is challenged by a looming conflict o...

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  The Fatherless

  Marie Kreutzer

  PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2012

  Though functioning within the vacuum of cliché—estranged daughter Kyra (Andrea Wenzl) returns home for her father's funeral where sib...