
There are some new titles coming out that might make it worth a trip to the video store this week. Check out these recent releases:
La Jetee/Sans Soleil: Criterion Collection [
Blu-ray review] - The two films presented here are arguably Chris Marker's most famous features and come highly recommended;
The Sunset Limited [
Blu-ray review] - a vehicle for big themes and powerful words, masterfully delivered by towering actors; and
Project Nim [
DVD review] - tremendously absorbing, and not without its hard-won glimmers of hope.
Other reviews of note include
5 Star Day,
Jerry Lewis as The Jazz Singer [
DVD review], and
3 [
DVD review].
Be sure to check out our
DVD Talk Review Database for all the
latest reviews including an entire section devoted to
reviews of DVDs out this week.

Some great TV shows have made their way onto DVD this week including:
Father Dowling Mysteries: The First Season - a nice show with a subdued tone, assured performances, and solid mysteries;
The Brontės of Haworth - the sharp dialogue and consistent performances make it a delight to experience for fans of the Brontės as well as the uninitiated; and
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Grave Danger - a feature-length episode of the popular show directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Other shows recently reviewed include:
Hey Dude: Season Two,
Swamp People: Season 2, and
Northern Lights: The Complete Collection.
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TV on DVD reviews in the
DVDTalk database.

This week the
DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including:
Spellbound - David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock's glamorous Ingrid Bergman / Gregory Peck thriller is also the most outlandish pastiche of silly psychiatry ever;
GOG - An entertaining Sci Fi treat from the Cold War years, this color espionage thriller sees America's secret underground weapons lab threatened by futuristic robots; and
Tokyo Drifter - In Seijun Suzuki's ode to alienated Yakuza, a handsome young gunman is betrayed by a father figure, hunted by eccentric assassins and protected by a less gullible "drifter" with a cynical philosophy.
Read all this and more in this week's
DVD Savant.

This week in theaters, found footage merges with the superhero origin story in
Chronicle; read reviews by
Tyler Foster and
Jamie S. Rich. Daniel Radcliffe helps reanimate the iconic Hammer studios in the gothic horror film
The Woman in Black. And
House of the Devil director Ti West returns with another slow-burn horror tale,
The Inkeepers. Also this week: Ewan McGregor and Eva Green find love in the midst of a sensory-deprivation outbreak in
Perfect Sense, and one of 2011's best films, the Oscar-nominated
A Separation, widens its release. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films:
The Grey,
Man on a Ledge,
Haywire,
Coriolanus,
Declaration of War,
The Man Nobody Knew,
Crazy Horse,
The Divide,
The Iron Lady,
Albert Nobbs, and
We Need to Talk About Kevin.