With all the (justified) buzz surrounding Iron Man and the new Godfather set, some excellent discs have been lost in the mix. Be sure to check out the DVD Talk Review Database for reviews of the DVDs you may have missed including: Cool Hand Luke [ 2nd review]- the kind of film that reinvigorates your sense of the artform, that proves that motion pictures can be more than star turns, CGI, and directorial bravado; The Bridges of Madison County - an understated and moving romance based on Robert James Waller's over-the-top novel bestseller; and Le Plaisir - Criterion Collection - a movie works its magic quietly and once you've had time to absorb its depth, it's a film you'll return to again and again. Other recent reviews include: Kabluey, Privilege, and The Earrings of Madame de... - Criterion Collection.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week and the ability to browse reviews by studio.

This month and every month Anime Talk brings you the latest information and reviews on Japanese Animation. The dust hasn't quite settled yet from the anime industry's turmoil, but there are some silver linings in the clouds ahead. FUNimation has started releasing Geneon shows, ADV and VIZ are practicing business as usual, and Bandai is heating up the charts with titles such as Gurren Lagann and Code Geass. It's safe to say that the coming months are going to be interesting, but in the meantime here is a list of anime you may have missed from the past month!

Neil LaBute tries on a paycheck directing gig guiding Samuel L. Jackson and Patrick Wilson in the racially-charged thriller Lakeview Terrace. DVD Talk critics Brian Orndorf and David Walker face the wrath. Ricky Gervais can speak to the dead, and the dead need plenty of relationship assistance in the dramedy Ghost Town. Brian Orndorf and Randy Miller III discuss the picture. And Dane Cook returns to prove he's completely unable to pick good material in My Best Friend's Girl. Also in theaters: John Cusack and Molly Shannon help voice the scares in the animated horror comedy Igor. The complexities of the 1999 WTO riots are dramatized by Stuart Townsend and a star-studded cast in Battle in Seattle. Keira Knightley is strapped into a corset and sent through the royal paces in The Duchess. And Germany offers their take on Carnival of Souls in the wonderfully acted mystery Yella. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Burn After Reading, Righteous Kill, The Women, The Family That Preys, Towelhead, Sukiyaki Western Django, Bangkok Dangerous, Mister Foe, Babylon A.D., Disaster Movie, Traitor, The House Bunny, Tropic Thunder, Mamma Mia!, and The Dark Knight. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

Once again this month DVD Stalk covers the horror DVD scene with reviews on everything from killer crocs to evil dolls to a film staring the governor of California. It doesn't stop there however. We also cover the latest Blu-ray releases, have a peek at a disc you may have overlooked, and spotlight a few recent releases of note. Check it out in this month's installment of DVDStalk!

Some of the best selling DVDs right now are TV shows. The demand keeps increasing and DVD Talk continues to review them. Recent TV on DVD reviews include: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 3 - Crass, insensitive and funny as hell, this show is a cartoon come to life; The Presidents Collection - a grouping of ten epic biographies of 20th Century American Presidents which are consistently excellent, often superb, and never less than engrossing; and Life: Season One [second review] - a program that contains excellent casting, great writing, and just the right touches to transcend the usual cop show elements. Other shows recently reviewed include:  The Big Bang Theory - The Complete First Season, Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1977, and Delicious Proposal, a Korean TV drama.  Want more?  Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVDTalk database.

There are some great new titles that are going to come out in the next couple of months. Recently announced releases include: The Shawshank Redemption [Blu-ray] - one of the greatest movies of all time arrives on Blu-ray just in time for the holiday season on 12-2-08; One item that's surely going to be on my wish-list this year is Fox's impressive Murnau, Borzage and Fox Box Set. A followup to last year's Ford at Fox set, this collection will feature 12 films from the Hollywood legends, an all-new feature length documentary, and two exclusive hard-cover books. It will be released on 12-9-08; and the black comedy Heathers arrives on Blu-ray on 11-18-08. Other newly announced titles include: Two Tigers on 11-25-08, and Saturday Night Live: Complete Fourth Season on 12-2-08. Keep track of all the upcoming DVDs with the DVDTalk Release List.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Errol Flynn: The Warner Bros. Western Collection - Errol shoots straight in four oaters stretching from 1940 to 1950, when he rode the range for the last time: Virginia City, San Antonio, Montana, Rocky Mountain. Stocked with plenty of Warners Night at the Movies extras; Twenty-Four Eyes - Keisuke Kinoshita's tale of twenty years in the life of a rural Japanese schoolteacher is unabashed sentimentality ... and extremely effective. Hideko Takamine plays a young teacher who must follow her students through an economic depression, government pressure and the war years; and Television Under the Swastika - Michael Kloft comes through again with ultra-rare film on a fascinating subject -- Nazi television broadcasts, the world's first regularly scheduled programming. While charting the technical progress of the newborn medium, the show gives us an unique look at everyday National Socialist propaganda. Hitler's TV programs tow the party line and ridicule other points of view. Hmmmm. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Another banner week for DVD releases with everything from classic comedy to offbeat documentaries turning up on store shelves. This weeks top titles include:  The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour: The Best of Season 3 [review] - even though (contrary to what is implied in the box description) these are edited versions of the program, it's still one of the funniest and most controversial shows ever to air on TV; Young@Heart [review] - a charming and affectionate look at some remarkable people who have discovered the timeless magic of music; and Pushing Daisies - The Complete First Season [review]- an utterly unique, original, bizarre and simply wonderful series.; Other releases of note include:  An American in Paris: Two-Disc Special Edition [review], Charlie Chan Volume 5 [review] which includes Charlie Chan in Panama, Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise, Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, Murder Over New York (all 1940), Dead Men Tell, Charlie Chan in Rio (1941), and Castle in the Desert (1942), and Chuck - The Complete First Season [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

The DVD Talk review staff has been churning out reviews for the DVD Talk Review Database at an amazing pace. Check out these recent discs that all come highly recommended: How the West Was Won [Blu-ray review]- a singular achievement in the annals of the Hollywood epic - a story as big, as brash, and as exciting as the west itself; High School Flashback Collection - a trio of John Hughes films, this time released with substantial extras; and La Ronde - Criterion Collection - a marvel of structure and design, its circular storytelling and creative eye breaking boundaries in entertaining, intriguing ways. Other recent reviews include: Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, The Cool School, and Reprise.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week and the ability to browse reviews by studio.

It's an acting team formed in the cinema heavens. It's a motion picture that's ready for the bottom shelf at a video store. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino meet up for Righteous Kill. DVD Talk Critics Brian Orndorf and Jamie S. Rich assess the long awaited pairing. The Coen Brothers return with George Clooney and Brad Pitt as total idiots in black comedy Burn After Reading. Brian Orndorf and David Walker rate the morons. And Takashi Miike embraces spaghetti westerns with his wild valentine Sukiyaki Western Django. Also in theaters: Tyler Perry is back with the charged melodrama The Family That Preys. Diane English directs Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, and a cast of many ladies in the dramedy The Women. And Alan Ball follows-up "American Beauty" with the uncomfortable sexual, domestic, and psychological abuse chronicle Towelhead. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Bangkok Dangerous, Mister Foe, Babylon A.D., Disaster Movie, College, Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!, Traitor, The House Bunny, Death Race, Hamlet 2, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Tropic Thunder, Mamma Mia!, Pineapple Express, and The Dark Knight. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

TV on DVD is as strong as ever with both new and classic shows turning up on those shiny little discs. Recent TV on DVD reviews include: Pushing Daisies - The Complete First Season - an utterly unique, original, bizarre and simply wonderful series; Pete Seeger - The Power of Song - A wonderful movie about a true American hero; and The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, with KISS - A deliciously camp waking nightmare this long-thought lost program has been miraculously unearthed and brought forth in all its gaudy, tacky mid-70s "Big Three" network TV special glory. Other shows recently reviewed include:  House, M.D. - Season Four, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition, and P.D. James: Devices and Desires.  Want more?  Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVDTalk database.

Coming up to the holiday shopping season, publishers are scheduling some pretty good titles. Recently announced releases include: Hancock - The Will Smith superhero flick arrives on DVD on 11-25-08 with a Two-Disc Unrated Edition DVD as well as a Blu-ray disc; Western fans will be delighted that the Budd Boetticher Box Set, will be released on 11-4-08 containing five of the director's films all staring Randolph Scott: Tall T, Decision at Sundown, Buchanan Rides Alone, Ride Lonesome, and Comanche Station; and the Eddie Murphy feature Meet Dave arrives on 11-25-08. Other newly announced titles include: Space Chimps available on DVD and Blu-ray on 11-25-08, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Vol. 6 on 11-16-08. Keep track of all the upcoming DVDs with the DVDTalk Release List.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: The Adventures of Robin Hood - Errol Flynn's biggest hit comes to Blu-ray in a dazzling package containing all the extras of the previous 2-disc special edition; All My Good Countrymen - A casualty of the Prague Spring of 1968, Vojtech Jasny's Czechoslovakian national epic is a bittersweet account of fifteen deplorable years under Communist rule. A farming town doesn't so much as adapt, as succumb, as seen in the experiences of six close friends; and Orson Welles' Don Quixote - Jesus Franco butchers the partially-filmed remnants of a movie that Orson Welles struggled to film for twenty years, but could not finish. Some interesting material, mostly obscured by the need to turn a fragment into a commercial product. But definitely for Orson Welles completists. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Some all-time favorites are being released (or re-released) this week including one of the Coen Brothers best and some classic comedy from the BBC. This weeks top titles include:  The Big Lebowski: 10th Anniversary Limited Edition [review 1, review 2] - one of the most offbeat and re-watchable comedies ever made. If you haven't seen it, stop reading now and go get a copy; It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 3 [review] - Following the antics of five greedy, self-absorbed slackers running a dive bar, the show is highly quotable, remarkably re-watchable and instantly addictive; Child's Play - Chucky's 20th Birthday Edition [review 1 review 2]- Smartly executed and quite funny, this iconic horror cult film plays even better today than it did twenty years ago; and The Best of... What's Left of... Not Only... But Also... [review 1 review 2] - hilarious sketch comedy from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Other releases of note include:  Cool Hand Luke - Deluxe Edition [review] and Fox Horror Classics, Vol. 2 (Chandu the Magician / Dr. Renault's Secret / Dragonwyck) [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.

TheDVD Talk Review Database continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Check out these recent discs that all come highly recommended by the DVDTalk review staff: Speed Racer - the most audacious piece of eye candy to jump off the screen in recent memory; Please Vote for Me - this hour-long look at the first ever election held at a Chinese school is not only universally relevant and relatable, but also charming, hysterical and frightening; and Snow Angels - David Gordon Green's fourth feature packs an emotional wallop that is compelling for its raw honesty. Other recent reviews include: I Got the Feelin': James Brown in the '60s, Married Life, and The Dali Dimension: Decoding the Mind of a Genius.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week and the ability to browse reviews by studio.

Professional football fans, role-playing gamers and arcade junkies had plenty to choose from in August. Electronic Arts dished out Madden across several platforms. Check out VGT's reviews of Madden NFL 09 for the Xbox 360 and Madden NFL 09 All-Play for the Nintendo Wii. Playstation 3 owners got to delve into Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice and Xbox Live saw arcade releases such as Castle Crashers and Jonathan Blow's Braid. Check out recent reviews of Little League World Series Baseball 2008, Soul Calibur IV (X360 & PS3), Fable II Pub Games, and Hellboy: The Science of Evil. You can check out all VGT reviews and offer up your own opinion on our Video Game Talk Forum .

The first weekend of September is always a quiet time for movie releases, leaving the field wide open for the one and only Nicolas Cage, guided by the Pang Brothers, to liven up the film scene with the goofy action spectacle Bangkok Dangerous. And Jamie Bell gives a tour de force performance in the raw psychological drama/voyeurism odyssey Mister Foe. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Babylon A.D., Disaster Movie, College, Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!, Traitor, The House Bunny, Death Race, Hamlet 2, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Tropic Thunder, Mirrors, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Mamma Mia!, Pineapple Express, and The Dark Knight. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

It seems like every week there's another great TV show that appears on DVD and this one is no exception. Recent TV on DVD reviews include: Doctor Who - The Five Doctors: 25th Anniversary Edition - enormous fun for fans of Classic Doctor Who; The Wire - The Complete Fifth Season - a fascinating drama that does not fail to entertain. This show is television at its best and something everyone should see; and Gossip Girl - The Complete First Season [2nd review] - The humor and the melodrama both edge on camp, which keeps this story of scheming rich kids at a New York private school from ever getting dull. Flashy and trashy, it's fun, fun, fun. Other shows recently reviewed include:  Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre: The Complete Collection, The Shield - The Complete Sixth Season, and Brideshead Revisited -- 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition.  Want more?  Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVDTalk database.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Chicago 10 - Brett Morgen adds animation to flesh out Nixon's show trial, creating a strong contrast with the excellent coverage of the '68 Chicago riots. History's verdict may come down on the side of the protesters -- and maybe not; Brand Upon the Brain! - Guy Maddin's utterly mad tale of family struggles, dark secrets and strange disguises takes place in a fantasy lighthouse, filtered through Maddin's fractured silent film technique; and Pete Kelly's Blues - I don't care if the movie has problems, it's still a terrific experience. Jack Webb crams his 1920s bandstand 'n' gangsters epic with great music and singing from Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

More movies and TV shows are making their way to DVD. Recently announced releases include: The Incredible Hulk - Everyone's favorite green behemoth arrives on DVD on 10-12-08 with a extra loaded three disc SE as well as a Blu-ray disc; The devilish comedy Reaper: Season 1, about a slacker who discovers that his parents sold his soul to the devil and now he has to work as Satan's bounty hunter, is being released on 11-4-08; and for those that like to 'think pink' the Pink Panther Ultimate Collection arrives on 11-25-08. This 18 Disc set includes nine films, nine discs full of cartoon classics, and the quintessential Pink Panther encyclopedia, "Pink Panther, The Ultimate Guide to the Coolest Cat in Town!" Other newly announced titles include: Kung Fu Panda available on DVD and Blu-ray 11-11-08, Abbott & Costello: Complete Universal Pictures Collection including the never release "It Ain't Hay" on 10-28-08 and Hannah Montana: The Complete First Season on 11-18-08.

Another week of some great DVD releases, especially if you're a fan of TV on DVD. This weeks top titles include:  Supernatural - The Complete Third Season [review] - This show about two brothers who hunt demons keeps getting better and better. The best season so far; Transformers (Blu-ray) [review] - this high definition edition of the Michael Bay special effects extravaganza includes a better soundtrack and some new extras that the HD DVD didn't have; and The Big Bang Theory - The Complete First Season [review]- a refreshing taste of the sitcom that we've been missing for some time. Other releases of note include:  Monster Camp [review], Road House (1948) [review] and The Office: Season Four [review].

From classics movies getting the deluxe treatment to newly released films, this week the DVD Talk Review Database has added a little of everything. Check out some of the more notable reviews including: The Nightmare Before Christmas: Collector's Edition [Blu-ray review] - Tim Burton's ground breaking work is an animated classic that gets better with each and every viewing; Young@Heart - A life-affirming documentary about a chorus of seniors who specialize in rock 'n' roll; and Kiss of the Spider Woman - Hector Babenco's wondrous cinematic achievement is celebrated with a new two-disc special edition. Other recent reviews include: Fox Horror Classics, Vol. 2 (Chandu the Magician / Dr. Renault's Secret / Dragonwyck), Then She Found Me, and Satantango.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week and the ability to browse reviews by studio.

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