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Posts tagged "war"

WHITE MATERIAL – Reviewed by Adele “Mojave Slim” Bondarchuk

Posted by The Video Station Staff - April 14, 2011 - blu-ray, drama, foreign films, movie reviews, recommendations
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In an unnamed African nation, child soldiers wield guns and machetes, swallow fistfuls of pills and hunt for a rebel leader called “The Boxer”. A coffee plantation is falling apart with no one to bring in the harvest. Workers are threatened by government soldiers, marauding bands of thugs, and their own liberation movement. In White [...]

Read More blu-ray, Claire Denis, drama, DVD, Isabelle Huppert, Unrate, war, White Material

RESTREPO – Reviewed by Salvatore “Gil” Bacarrat

Posted by The Video Station Staff - December 9, 2010 - blu-ray, documentary, movie reviews
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“How are you going to go back to the civilian world?” “I have no idea.” A documentary is not the gospel, yet they’re treated most times as absolute truth. Sadly, most historical dramatizations committed to film are treated this way. Witness Oliver Stone’s JFK. We feel that “fact” is presented before us on the screen, [...]

Read More blu-ray, documentary, DVD, R, Restrepo, war

TRIAGE – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - August 12, 2010 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews
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Triage is a solid if unspectacular war-photographer drama á la Under Fire or Salvador that, while not nearly as energetic as those films, contains some solid performances from a cast including Colin Farrell, Paz Vega and 86-year-old Christopher Lee. Based on a book by war correspondent Scott Anderson, it’s set in 1988 and shows Irish [...]

Read More blu-ray, Branko Djuric, Christopher Lee, Colin Farrell, Danis Tanovic, drama, DVD, Jamie Sives, Paz Vega, R, Triage, war

DEAR JOHN – Reviewed by David

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 27, 2010 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, romance
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As a guy, I’m pretty much the wrong gender to be reviewing any movie based on a book by Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook), but here we are with Dear John, a particularly nasty piece of dude repellent starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried about a pair of pretty young people and their absurdly melodramatic romantic [...]

Read More Amanda Seyfried, blu-ray, Channing Tatum, David, Dear John, drama, DVD, Henry Thomas, Jamie Linden, Lasse Hallström, Nicholas Sparks, PG-13, Richard Jenkins, romance, war

THE MESSENGER – Reviewed by Joyce

Posted by The Video Station Staff - May 20, 2010 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, romance
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The Messenger has a lot going for it. The plot line is unique and ripe with potential. Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster play soldiers assigned to the Casualty Notification Office – they are the ones who ring the doorbell of the survivors to tell them that their loved one has died. Harrelson’s character, Tony Stone, [...]

Read More Ben Foster, blu-ray, drama, DVD, joyce, R, romance, Samantha Morton, Steve Buscemi, The Messenger, war, Woody Harrelson

THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS – Reviewed by Noah

Posted by The Video Station Staff - March 26, 2010 - blu-ray, comedy, movie reviews
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The Men Who Stare at Goats is the first feature directed by Grant Heslov. Heslov is perhaps best know as a producer and writing partner of George Clooney. To me he will always be the guy who loved coffee in Dante’s Peak.

Read More blu-ray, comedy, DVD, Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Grant Heslov, jeff bridges, Jon Ronson, Kevin Spacey, Noah, R, The Men Who Stare At Goats, war

BROTHERS – Reviewed by Camilla

Posted by The Video Station Staff - March 26, 2010 - blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers
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Brothers is a 2009 American drama-war film starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman. Directed by Jim Sheridan, the film is based on Susanne Bier‘s 2004 Danish film Brothers (Brødre) which takes place in Afghanistan and Denmark.

Read More blu-ray, Brothers, camilla, drama, DVD, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jim Sheridan, Natalie Portman, R, Suzanne Bier, thriller, Tobey Maguire, war

SÉRAPHINE – Reviewed by Boswell McNamara

Posted by The Video Station Staff - March 26, 2010 - drama, foreign films, movie reviews, recommendations
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Francis Bacon not so much with a brush but with scalpel strokes lay back the skin of a dark existence. Gauguin sought, found and painted his garden of Eden. Basquiat, careerist that he was, perhaps didn’t completely translate but at least jotted down semaphore signals from the streets. In films trying to interpret the lives [...]

Read More biography, drama, DVD, Not Rated, Seraphine, Ulrich Tukur, war, Yolande Moreau

THE HURT LOCKER – Reviewed by Will

Posted by The Video Station Staff - January 14, 2010 - action/adventure, blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, recommendations
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Lately I’ve been a bit vexed by the phrase “action movie.” Of all the genres into which films are categorized, it might be the most nebulous and perhaps most likely to disappoint those who seek it. What exactly defines an action flick? A cynic might say that an action picture is one that uses violence [...]

Read More action, Anthony Mackie, blu-ray, Brian Geraghty, drama, DVD, Guy Pearce, Jeremy Renner, Kathryn Bigelow, R, The Hurt Locker, thriller, war, will

ADAM RESURRECTED – Reviewed by Bruce

Posted by The Video Station Staff - September 24, 2009 - drama, movie reviews
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When I saw Adam Resurrected at the Telluride Film Festival in 2008, I thought Jeff Goldblum would finally receive some accolades for his acting – at least a Best Actor nomination. Instead, nothing. This strange, riveting and powerful film received almost no theatrical release, and no critical acclaim to speak of. Let’s give it its [...]

Read More Adam Resurrected, Bruce, drama, DVD, Jeff Goldblum, Paul Schrader, R, war
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