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Posts tagged "drama"

ALBERT NOBBS – Reviewed by Joyce

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 17, 2012 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews
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ALBERT NOBBS – Reviewed by Joyce

Albert Nobbs was not my cup of tea, but it could possibly be yours. I’m not a big fan of period pieces, but I thought that by virtue of an incredible performance by Glenn Close, I would transcend my prejudice. Was Close’s performance technically excellent? Yes, probably. She had the accent, the gait, the look, [...]

Read More Albert Nobbs, drama, Glenn Close, Janet McTeer, joyce, Mia Wasikowska, Rodrigo Garcia

THE GREY – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 17, 2012 - action/adventure, drama, movie reviews
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THE GREY – Reviewed by David

You’d think a movie about Liam Neeson duking it out with wolves in the wild would be exciting. You’d be wrong. Turns out The Grey, a macho but mushy existential survival tale directed by Joe Carnahan, is actually quite a slog — dreary, overly talky and capped by one of those maddeningly ambiguous endings that [...]

Read More action, adventure, Dallas Roberts, David, Dermot Mulroney, drama, Frank Grillo, Joe Carnahan, Liam Neeson, The Grey

CHRONICLE – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 17, 2012 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, recommendations, sci-fi / fantasy, suspense/thrillers
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CHRONICLE – Reviewed by David

In Chronicle we get one of the year’s best films, a fun and cool and awesome piece of lower-budget sci-fi that uses the found footage format, a simple but neat premise and seamless special effects to deftly detail in larger-than-life fashion what I imagine are the horrors of being a bullied teenager today. Dreamed up [...]

Read More Chronicle, Dane DeHaan, David, drama, Josh Trank, Max Landis, Sci-Fi, thriller

NORWEGIAN WOOD and MICHAEL – Reviewed by Demetri “a victorious cummerbund made of shrimp” Trailerhitch

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 17, 2012 - foreign films, movie reviews, recommendations
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NORWEGIAN WOOD and MICHAEL – Reviewed by Demetri “a victorious cummerbund made of shrimp” Trailerhitch

A desire to connect makes us human. Deciphering between need and obsession in the search for connection can make us clumsy and hurtful to ourselves and others if not outright cruel and evil.

Read More Austria, drama, Japan, Michael, Norwegian Wood, romance

THE CONCERT – Reviewed by Will

Posted by The Video Station Staff - June 16, 2011 - drama, foreign films, movie reviews
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The Concert, at least initially, is a goofy farce with a moderately ridiculous premise. A janitor working at the Bolshoi in Moscow, who himself was once its celebrated–and politically discredited–conductor (Alexeï Guskov), intercepts a fax from Paris inviting the orchestra to fill in for the L.A. Philharmonic, which has canceled. He decides to get the [...]

Read More Alexei Guskov, Dmitri Nazarov, drama, DVD, Melanie Laurent, R, The Concert, will

BURNING PALMS – Reviewed by Joyce

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 28, 2011 - comedy, drama, movie reviews
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This isn’t a real review–I’m just writing to bring a movie to your attention: Burning Palms. I previewed this movie–a collection of five stories–over the weekend, and it was good. Really good. Here’s my caveat, though: It is dark. Very black humor. The themes may be disturbing to some, including rape and incest, but the [...]

Read More Burning Palms, Christopher Landon, comedy, drama, DVD, joyce, Lake Bell, R, Zoe Saldana

THE OTHER WOMAN – Reviewed by Will

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 20, 2011 - drama, movie reviews
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Remember back circa 2004, when Jude Law seemed to be in every other movie that came out? Well, this year it’s proven the same with Natalie Portman (Black Swan, No Strings Attached, Your Highness, Thor, etc.). This time, in The Other Woman, she’s playing the second wife of a successful New York lawyer (Scott Cohen) [...]

Read More Ayelet Waldman, blu-ray, Charlie Tahan, drama, DVD, Lisa Kudrow, Natalie Portman, The Other Woman, will

BLUE VALENTINE – Reviewed by Joyce

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 12, 2011 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, recommendations, romance
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Blue Valentine is now out on DVD. I worked with the writer-director, Derek Cianfrance, and one of its editors, Jimmy Helton, here at the Video Station circa 1997. It was great to work alongside of them, and in those days, Derek was a young guy working on his first big project, Brother Tied. Brother Tied [...]

Read More blu-ray, Blue Valentine, Derek Cianfrance, drama, DVD, Jimmy Helton, Michelle Williams, R, romance, Ron Patane, Ryan Gosling

THE ILLUSIONIST – Reviewed by Will

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 12, 2011 - animation, blu-ray, foreign films, movie reviews, recommendations
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The Illusionist isn’t just the long-awaited second feature from Sylvain Chomet, the French animator who made 2003′s charmingly grotesque, hauntingly comic Triplets of Belleville. It’s also, in a sense, a new film from the great mime artist turned genius director Jacques Tati (Playtime, Mon Oncle), who died in 1982. Adapted from a semi-autobiographical script Tati [...]

Read More animation, blu-ray, comedy, drama, DVD, Jacques Tati, PG-, Sylvain Chomet, The Illusionist, will

JOLENE – Reviewed by Will

Posted by The Video Station Staff - April 28, 2011 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews
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Jolene is one of those little independent movies that introduces us to a new star without really being a great film itself. It’s certainly not unwatchable–it’s shot fairly well and it has an engaging enough cast–but it kind of drifts from scene to scene without any strong momentum. The title character is played by Jessica [...]

Read More blu-ray, Chazz Palminteri, drama, DVD, Jessica Chastain, Jolene, Michael Vartan, R, will
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