Though you may be overwhelmed trying to get to the theater to see all the movies making a splash this award season, there are new DVDs out today that will justify your desire to stay in. These new releases may not have been Golden Globes nominees, but they still made an impression on me, and now they're yours for rental. Buried Ryan Reynolds puts on a one-man show in the thriller Buried, where Read more

Relationships have long been fodder for the introspective indie film, and Philip Seymour Hoffman tackles the subject in his directorial debut, Jack Goes Boating. The film centers on two couples: a long-married one enduring their own trials, and a tender new one. Hoffman stars as Jack, a dread-locked limo driver whose friends, Clyde and Lucy, try to set him up with Lucy's co-worker, Connie (Amy Read more

Opening in limited release this weekend, Jack Goes Boating is Phillip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut. A drama about a burgeoning relationship, it's not just indie in regard to film genre; its soundtrack is stuffed with indie-rock cred as well. There are tracks from Fleet Foxes and Cat Power, but the movie's musical godfather is Grizzly Bear. The Brooklyn-based band collaborated on the score Read more

We've seen this story before — awkward, 40-something schlub falls in love with an equally awkward (yet more attractive) woman — but there's something about this trailer for Jack Goes Boating that's still endearing. In his directorial debut, Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as Jack, a limo driver who gets set up on a blind date by his only two friends in the world, Clyde (John Ortiz) and Lucy Read more