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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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 [...]

HAYWIRE – Reviewed by Noah

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 3, 2012 - action/adventure, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers

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Haywire, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Gina Carano is the story of a private sector security agent who is double crossed and sets forth on a mission of revenge. First question: Who is Gina Carano? Gina is a mixed martial arts fighter and, I’m totally serious, a former “American Gladiator.” While this is not [...]

I AM NUMBER FOUR – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 28, 2011 - action/adventure, blu-ray, movie reviews, sci-fi / fantasy, suspense/thrillers

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Michael Bay was originally going to direct I Am Number Four, but he passed, and the job went to D.J. Caruso. Good thing, too, because in Bay’s hands this sci-fi action flick would probably have been a bombastic mess, whereas the director of Disturbia and Eagle Eye makes it into a thoroughly entertaining mix of [...]

VANISHING ON 7TH STREET – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 20, 2011 - horror, suspense/thrillers

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The characters in Vanishing On 7th Street spend most of the time running away from shadows, a notion that initially may sound as silly as seeing people flee from the wind in The Happening, but one that, in the capable hands of director Brad Anderson, gets turned into a nicely low-key hair-raiser of a horror [...]

THE MECHANIC – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 20, 2011 - action/adventure, blu-ray, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers

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It may share the same plot and title, but this souped-up remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson/Jan-Michael Vincent thriller The Mechanic is really just another excuse for action star Jason Statham to shoot guns and kick butt, albeit one that director Simon West (Con Air) shoots and edits with energetic efficiency.

BLACK SWAN – Reviewed by Will

Posted by The Video Station Staff - March 31, 2011 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews

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When I walked out of the theater after seeing Black Swan for the first time, I thought to myself, “Hey, this cinema thing might still have some fresh juice in it after all.” Love it or hate it, I don’t see many people accusing this film of being stale or unoriginal. That said, though I [...]

FAIR GAME – Reviewed by Noah

Posted by The Video Station Staff - March 31, 2011 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, recommendations, suspense/thrillers

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Man, did I not want to watch Fair Game. I remember the actual events, and I just wasn’t in the mood to relive the mistakes of the Younger Bush administration. Also, I’m not a big Sean Penn fan. He strikes me as kind of a jerk most times. I’m sure he’s lovely in person.

SKYLINE – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - March 24, 2011 - action/adventure, movie reviews, sci-fi / fantasy, suspense/thrillers

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Running and reacting is the name of the game in Skyline, an alien invasion flick directed by the Brothers Strause (Alien vs. Predator: Requiem) that features impressive effects, annoying characters and makes the similarly-themed Battle: LA look like Shakespeare. Like that movie, it’s set in L.A., but instead of focusing on a pack of soldiers, [...]

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.