“This film is about the craft,” declares Ice-T, the veteran rapper (once notorious for his track “Cop Killer”) who’s turned director with “Something From Nothing : The Art of Rap,” a documentary on the roots and development of busting rhymes. Ice-T is a good ...

Director: John Waters Language: English John Waters’ fans can welcome this 1994 classic onto digitally remastered DVD and Blu-ray. Kathleen Turner stars as a prim and proper, holier-than-thou sort of Martha Stewart housewife who takes cleanliness and keeping up appearances so seriously that she ...

Speaking with “Monsters University” producer Kori Rae the other day, the conversation turned to the possibility that digital animation may have hit some sort of plateau. While I don’t expect Pixar to stop pushing the boundaries, it was nevertheless surprising to hear Rae say ...

“Music For One Apartment and Six Drummers” was a great conceptual art piece in which six rather serious looking Swedes invade a couple’s flat and begin to play clockwork rhythms out of everything in it: blenders, pot-lids, switches, toothbrushes, razors, floss, you name it. ...

Director: Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski Language: English Mixing six stories set from the 19th century into the far future, this Rubik’s Cube of a film is a vastly ambitious attempt to illustrate the laws of karma. Tom Hanks, Jim Broadbent, Hugh ...

Sitting down for an interview with Kori Rae, producer of “Monsters University” — the new animated film from Pixar Animation Studios — I notice a bit of ink poking out from under a sleeve. Rae indulges my curiosity and reveals a pastel-colored “wa” (the ...

The astonishing thing about “A Late Quartet” is that Woody Allen didn’t make it. It has the Allen look — set in a resplendent and privileged Manhattan, with lingering shots of apartment interiors; the Allen-like cast — consisting of some of the most talented ...

Director: James Marsh Language: English Documentary director James Marsh (“Man On Wire”) turns to reality-based fiction with “Shadow Dancer,” a taut tale of double-agents and betrayal set in Belfast in 1993. Single-mom and IRA-supporter Colette (Andrea Riseborough) gets nabbed by MI5 and forced to ...

Pixar’s 2001 hit “Monsters Inc.” revolved around one great premise: What if the monsters that lurk underneath children’s beds, were actually terrified of the kids? It was a great gag, and the rest of the film fell into place around it. Also adding immensely ...

The relationship between singer Nick Cave and filmmaker John Hillcoat has been a fruitful one over the years; while Hillcoat has done a lot of music-video work for Cave’s gothic-blues group The Bad Seeds, Cave has also worked on Hillcoat’s feature films, providing music ...

Of all the films you’ll see this year, “Compliance” has, for sure, the most unbelievable plot of them all. The little tagline at the beginning saying “inspired by true events” hasn’t stopped people from taking outrage at director Craig Zobel’s supposed exaggerations, with “Nobody ...

Director: Various Language: English For those needing a fix of medieval intrigue after “Game of Thrones,” English-language Euro-TV series “Borgia” might be the answer. (Not to be confused with Neil Jordan’s “The Borgias.” which covers much the same territory.) “Borgia” is set in the ...