THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO – Reviewed by Jeremy

Posted by The Video Station Staff - July 16, 2010 - blu-ray, foreign films, movie reviews, recommendations, suspense/thrillers

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was a film that I was completely oblivious of. So in other words, I went into this film blindly. What this film presented was a surprisingly interesting plot that often reminded me of films such as Erik Skjoldbjærg’s Insomnia. The visualization of pain and redemption, old and new, are [...]

THE WHITE RIBBON – Reviewed by A.I.

Posted by The Video Station Staff - July 1, 2010 - drama, foreign films, movie reviews, recommendations

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For a filmmaker who has fashioned a career out of dissecting the savage torpor of modern existence, Michael Haneke‘s The White Ribbon comes as something of an oddity. A story of strange occurrences in a tiny German hamlet on the eve of WWI, the film carries with it a bundle of theatrical firsts for the [...]

THE CRAZIES – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - July 1, 2010 - blu-ray, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers

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Something in an Iowa farming community’s water is turning the townsfolk into homicidal maniacs. So goes the scenario of director Breck Eisner’s effectively frightening redo of George Romero’s 1973 virus-run-amuck classic The Crazies.

SHUTTER ISLAND – Reviewed by Will

Posted by The Video Station Staff - June 11, 2010 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers

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It’s not wrong to still get a little excited about the latest offerings from Martin Scorsese. Though some might be inclined to dismiss him these days, making the assertion that he has abandoned the grittier, “simpler” style that made him famous, I find his crisp formalism refreshing. That’s not to say that every film he [...]

THE YOUNG VICTORIA – Reviewed by Sandymans Juryrig

Posted by The Video Station Staff - April 22, 2010 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, romance, suspense/thrillers

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In dramatizing the life of a royal person, filmmakers willingly step into the taffeta-lined pitfall of sumptuous visuals and noble chins held aloft. The problem being that if a story is known or at least known well enough, then there’s no tension present in the telling of the tale. That element of the narrative added [...]

THE FOURTH KIND – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - March 20, 2010 - movie reviews, sci-fi / fantasy, suspense/thrillers

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I’m going to level with you. This alien abduction thriller starring Milla Jovovich purports to be based on real reports, but it’s really just Fire in the Sky meets The Blair Witch Project, a remarkably convincing but completely fictional tale that effectively unnerved me more often than not.

THE BOX – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - February 25, 2010 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, sci-fi / fantasy, suspense/thrillers

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I never much cared for director Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko, with its trippy time travel and cryptic-creepy rabbit, and liked his nonsensical Southland Tales even less. His seeming need for his films to be illogical eventually plagues The Box, too, turning what starts out as an intriguing and easy-to-grasp sci-fi parable into yet another mind-bending [...]

WHITEOUT – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - January 21, 2010 - action/adventure, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers

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This isolated-location thriller starring Kate Beckinsale (Underworld) and directed by Dominic Sena (Kalifornia) didn’t get much love from critics or audiences when it was dumped into theaters last fall, but it actually proves to be a decently entertaining time-killer. Beckinsale plays a U.S. Marshall stationed at an Arctic research station who, a mere two days [...]

MOON – Reviewed by J.D.

Posted by The Video Station Staff - January 14, 2010 - drama, movie reviews, recommendations, sci-fi / fantasy, suspense/thrillers

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While it may well be true that in space, no one can hear you scream, the question remains: can they hear you talking to yourself? The isolation of space has long been a thematic construct in the best science fiction. Moon, which stars the gifted actor Sam Rockwell in a virtual one-man show as the [...]

A PERFECT GETAWAY – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - December 31, 2009 - horror, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers

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A Perfect Getaway doesn’t quite live up to the second word of its double-meaning title, but it’s still a nifty little thriller from writer/director David Twohy (Pitch Black) that manages to surprise just enough to make watching it worthwhile. The setup posits the possibility that one of three couples–newlyweds Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich, free-spirit [...]