BURLESQUE – Reviewed by Noah

Posted by The Video Station Staff - March 4, 2011 - drama, movie reviews, music & musicals

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When I sat down to watch Burlesque I expected to find a vanity project. Cher, tired of playing Vegas to make ends meet, needed to throw herself back into the spotlight. Christina Aguilera never made as big a splash as Britney and wanted more, more, more. What I found was a beautifully done (gag) engaging [...]

127 HOURS – Reviewed by Will

Posted by The Video Station Staff - March 4, 2011 - drama, movie reviews, recommendations, suspense/thrillers

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I remember the day, back in 2003, when Aron Ralston emerged from the maze of the Canyonlands with his epic story of survival. At the time, I was working at a map store that furnished, among other treasures, the best printed material about the region that money could wrangle. Ralston himself was never a customer [...]

UNSTOPPABLE – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - February 17, 2011 - action/adventure, drama, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers

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Having already done the underground train thing with their remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott move above ground with Unstoppable, a rousing runaway train thriller co-starring Chris Pine that barrels right along and barely brakes for nuance.

LET ME IN – Reviewed by Mordecai “Foster” Grant

Posted by The Video Station Staff - February 4, 2011 - blu-ray, drama, horror, movie reviews, recommendations

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It’s not easy to believe in evil anymore. Evil acts from evil intent? They occur everyday, would that they wouldn’t. But evil bound in its own genetic helix? As its own reward? For its own sake? This is a broad attack to take in reviewing a horror film, but since Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published [...]

NEVER LET ME GO – Reviewed by Will

Posted by The Video Station Staff - February 4, 2011 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, recommendations, romance

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The premise of Never Let Me Go, at least superficially, is not an unfamiliar one. The idea of human clones being bred solely to serve as organ donors has made fertile fodder for dystopian sci-fi nightmares for decades, at least as far back as Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979). But while these films usually explore [...]

CONVICTION – Reviewed by Joyce

Posted by The Video Station Staff - February 4, 2011 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers

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Conviction was a very “serviceable” drama based on a true story. Hilary Swank stars as Betty Anne Waters, a working mom who decides to put herself through law school so she can defend her brother, Kenny (Sam Rockwell), whom she believes to be wrongfully convicted of a grisly murder.

MONSTERS – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - February 4, 2011 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, recommendations, sci-fi / fantasy, suspense/thrillers

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It may have cost less than a million dollars to make, but the ingenious Monsters, like most sci-fi flicks nowadays, is still all about the visual effects. Only in a good way. Instead of the CGI being the show, a la 2012, it rather refreshingly serves to enhance a simple, albeit familiar, story combining elements [...]

THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - January 28, 2011 - drama, foreign films, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers

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The cinematic escapades of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s pint-sized Goth hacker end with a whimper in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, a redundant, talky and overly long affair that will probably prove a must-see for fans of the books but had me constantly checking my watch and shaking my head in exasperation. After [...]

NOWHERE BOY – Reviewed by Noah

Posted by The Video Station Staff - January 28, 2011 - drama, movie reviews, recommendations

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When I first heard this project was in the works, I groaned. I’m not a Beatles fan, never have been. The first time I saw a picture of the group I immediately recognized Paul McCartney as the guy who tried to steal Michael Jackson‘s girl, but thought that whoever this other band was they were [...]

ENTER THE VOID and DOGTOOTH – Reviewed by Aloisius “Ton-ton” SeedDrill

Posted by The Video Station Staff - January 28, 2011 - drama, foreign films, movie reviews

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Film maudit. “Cursed film.” A film whose subject matter pushes it to the fringes of culture and nowhere near the marketplace. Provocative and nuanced at best, slyboots childish attention getter at worst. Visceral beauty and intensity underscoring–to the point of being unwatchable–the physical or emotional carnage visited upon the characters portrayed. So why watch them?