NEW RELEASE RECAP – Aug 25, 2009

Posted by The Video Station Staff - August 28, 2009 - weekly new releases

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What came in this week on DVD? DUPLICITY ADVENTURELAND SUNSHINE CLEANING GOODBYE SOLO RUDO Y CURSI FIGHTING and many more…

DUPLICITY – Reviewed by Will

Posted by The Video Station Staff - August 27, 2009 - movie reviews, romance, suspense/thrillers

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Given the scarcity of frothy entertainment made for grownups of late, it’s easy to forgive a movie like Duplicity for some of its flaws. Granted, it’s not a finely tuned heist like the recent successes Inside Man or Ocean’s Eleven, but, borrowing its lead actors from those films, it manages to reach a fairly satisfying result, [...]

ADVENTURELAND – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - August 27, 2009 - comedy, drama, movie reviews, romance

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Adventureland was written and directed by Greg Mottola, he who helmed the much-beloved Superbad, and I suspect people will want to see it because of that connection. But it’s not a broad and raunchy laughfest. Rather, it’s a modest, semi-autobiographical–albeit R-rated–comedy/drama about one of those transformative summers in a young person’s life. In this case [...]

SUNSHINE CLEANING – Reviewed by Joyce

Posted by The Video Station Staff - August 27, 2009 - comedy, drama, movie reviews, recommendations

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Sunshine Cleaning is a greatly enjoyable indie dramedy with a good cast and a unique plot. Amy Adams plays Rose, former cheerleading captain and now a single mom. She is still carrying on with her ex- high school boyfriend Mac, a football hero played surprisingly well by the unlikely Steve Zahn. Rose’s sister is Norah [...]

GOODBYE SOLO – Reviewed by Will

Posted by The Video Station Staff - August 27, 2009 - drama, movie reviews, recommendations

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A lot of film enthusiasts here in Boulder recently became acquainted with director Ramin Bahrani this year at the Conference of World Affairs, where he co-hosted Roger Ebert‘s “Cinema Interruptus” and discussed his second film, Chop Shop, which I had the pleasure of reviewing last year when it arrived on our shelves. Ebert is convinced [...]

RUDO Y CURSI – Reviewed by J.D.

Posted by The Video Station Staff - August 27, 2009 - comedy, drama, movie reviews, recommendations

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A shaggy-dog tale propped up almost exclusively by its stars’ immeasurable charisma, Rudo y Cursi is nonetheless an entirely engaging Mexican fairy tale about two bickering brothers who find brief, and sudden, fame on competing soccer teams. Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, lifelong friends in real life, first starred together in Mexican telenovelas as [...]

FIGHTING – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - August 27, 2009 - action/adventure, drama, movie reviews

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The title may promise silly smack-down fun á la Lionheart or Never Back Down, but in reality Fighting features too few fights, too much talking and a too-dull leading man to be enjoyed even as a guilty pleasure. Droopy-eyed Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe) plays a down-and-out Southern boy hawking bootleg books and discs in New [...]

DOCUMENTARY ROUNDUP – August 2009

Posted by The Video Station Staff - August 27, 2009 - documentary, news & features

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Among this month’s notable documentary releases are two 2008 Academy Award nominees–Trouble The Water and The Garden–plus the fascinating biopic Tyson and rousing sports doc Harvard Beats Yale 29-29. But those are just a place to start… keep reading for the full roundup of all the non-fiction films new to our rental shelves this month:

STAFF PICK OF THE WEEK – Tovah

Posted by The Video Station Staff - August 25, 2009 - recommendations, staff picks

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BEST IN SHOW (2000) Directed by Christopher Guest My girlfriends and I first saw this when it was in theaters nine years ago. We went into it not knowing anything about it, but we came out of the dark theaters into the sunlight still laughing hysterically. This is a most excellent movie, with every actor/actress [...]

Top 25 Rentals – Week of Aug 17-23

Posted by The Video Station Staff - August 25, 2009 - top 25 rentals

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