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There has been, over the last few years, a new strain of music called ‘chillwave’, a somewhat robotic (i.e. unemotional) style of electronic music that is based mostly on the twin concepts of evocation and excavation. Derived from latent memories of 1980’s synthesizer pop/disco, the main thrust of chillwave is [...]

Why are music movies always so wrong? Not a “musical”, not a concert film, but a drama, comedy, whatever… about musicians. Films can be bad, but they’re usually not “wrong”.

Art just is. Let’s skip the fiery debate or dismissive indifference over the validity of mediums from woodcarving to chocolate covered performance pieces and just, for the sake of this review, agree that it would do everyone more good than harm to walk through a museum once in a while.

If you want to get technical about it, director Shawn Levy’s Real Steel is not an official adaptation of the Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots game, but it may as well be, because I can’t imagine any other film employing the admittedly silly idea of boxing robots being as wholly enjoyable as [...]

What a great viewing weekend. First I watched 50/50 (again), which for me was one of the best comedies – dramedies, really – of 2011 or any year. I’m even re-thinking Seth Rogen. Then I previewed Today’s Special and loved that film as well. Both of these movies are highly recommendable.

My affection for George Clooney is no secret here at The Video Station, so when it was suggested that I review The Ides of March (in which he both directs and stars) I did so with minimal reluctance. I figured there were worse ways to spend an afternoon.

Toast, based on a memoir by Nigel Slater, tells the story of a young boy’s interest in food as it leads him through childhood and into adult life.
Set in Britain in the 60’s, the story starts with young Nigel (Oscar Kennedy), a seemingly unobtrusive boy, who wants lots of fancy food, but his Mum (Victoria [...]

When I first caught word of the upcoming cinematic adaptation of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball book, a well-regarded examination of the recent phenomenon of executives of small market baseball teams incorporating statistical analysis and market inefficiencies to compete against the free-spending behemoths, I muttered something along the lines of “How is that gonna [...]

I was really looking forward to seeing Higher Ground, but it never came to Boulder. So now the DVD release is here, and it’s well worth watching. Vera Farmiga directed and starred in the movie, and what an ambitious undertaking for the then-pregnant actor. Her turn as George Clooney’s fling in Up in the Air [...]

Puncture was really neither very good nor very bad. The movie is based on a true story of a lawyer, Mike Weiss, who is also a major drug addict. The lead is played by Chris Evans (Captain America, Fantastic Four), and although his way-good performance makes him credible as both a [...]