Director: Todd Solondz Language: English Todd Solondz is known for bringing a host of uncomfortable characters and situations to the screen — first prize is probably Philip Seymour Hoffman’s obscene phone caller in “Happiness” — and “Dark Horse” is no exception, a twisted rom-com ...

How do you make a movie version of “On the Road,” author Jack Kerouac’s near stream-of-consciousness ode to bumming back and forth across Eisenhower-era 1950s America and Mexico in hitched rides, purloined cars and hobo boxcars in a blur of jazz joints, poetry and ...

Director: Various Language: English Season 3 of everyone’s favorite zombie series is finally out to rent here, just as the trailers for Season 4 on U.S. TV are making the rounds. Ex-cop Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his band of survivors find a place ...

Is there anything new left to be done with the buddy-cop genre? Probably not, but “End of Watch” gives it a damn good shot. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña star as a couple of LAPD officers who patrol one of Los Angeles’ roughest neighborhoods, ...

War photographer Robert Capa is known for being the first to engage in frontline photography; prior to Capa, photos would be taken before or after a battle, but rarely during, for obvious reasons. Yet Capa, with colleagues Gerda Taro and David “Chim” Seymour, took ...

Director: Werner Herzog Language: English “It’s life. You get one chance, and you live with the choices you make.” Director Werner Herzog’s latest may be a work for hire — a 35-minute documentary for AT&T on the consequences of texting and driving — but ...

Hollywood movies are all starting to feel the same these days, but in some cases almost literally. Just check out “White House Down,” a “Die Hard”-in-D.C. popcorn flick that is almost exactly the same movie as “Olympus Has Fallen,” which was released earlier this ...

German-Turkish director Fatih Akin, best known locally for 2005′s excellent doc on Istanbul’s music scene “Crossing the Bridge,” turns his attention to a small tea-growing village called Camburnu on the coast of the Black Sea. This was the hometown of Akin’s grandparents, and it’s ...

Director: Don Hertzfeldt Language: English Cinema is constantly cross-breeding, but a hybrid of Stan Brakhage’s impressionistic art cinema with naif stick-figure line drawing and overlapping narration like The Velvet Underground’s “The Murder Mystery” is not something I’d expected. One-man animator Don Hertzfeldt’s feature seamlessly ...

My first zombie movie was “Night of the Living Dead,” viewed at a midnight screening at the old Harvard Square Cinema, attended by a small coterie of late-night freaks and stoners. With its relentless dread and entrail-chomping ghouls, it was a film beyond the ...

I recall watching “Quantum of Solace,” the 007 movie directed by Marc Forster, and thinking, “This man should never have been put in charge of an action movie.” A fine director of art-house fare such as “Finding Neverland” or “The Kite Runner,” Forster handled ...

Director: Wong Kar-wai Language: Cantonese, Mandarin (subtitled in Japanese) Before “The Grandmaster,” Wong Kar-wai had already done a martial-arty film, and better. Now, 1996′s “The Ashes of Time” gets a rerelease on DVD, with a gorgeously restored print, but a cut that’s mysteriously seven ...