Some great DVD and Blu-ray reviews have been added to the the DVD Talk Review Database recently including: Captain America: The First Avenger - one of the better origin stories out there for a comic book hero; Alfred Hitchcock: The Essentials Collection - five established classics from 'The Master Of Suspense' in one handy boxed set; and Roger Corman's Cult Classic's Lethal Ladies Collection - what these three films lack in polish, good acting and complex plots they more than make up for with action, excitement and enthusiasm. Other recent reviews include: The Crow; Trooper Hook, and Shaolin.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

Howdy everyone! That does seem like an appropriate greeting following the release of a brand new Trigun anime film, right? This month's abbreviated column features more highlighted anime reviews to help out anime fans in finding the best material out there! We were especially busy this month with coverage for the re-release of the incredibly influential anime classic Robotech, which has finallybeen re-liscenced and reissued on DVD in a complete collection set. We also cover the latest adventure of Vash the Stampede when we look at the Trigun movie, Badlands Rumble. All this and some surprises in this month's Anime Talk!

This week in theaters, Johnny Depp returns to Gonzo territory in The Rum Diary. Read reviews by Jamie S. Rich and Jason Bailey. Antonio Banderas brings back his swashbuckling feline from the Shrek series in Puss in Boots. And a musician is reunited with his long-lost daughter in Janie Jones. Also going into wider release this week: the stirring documentary The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 and the stunning indie drama Martha Marcy May Marlene. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Paranormal Activity 3, Take Shelter, Revenge of the Electric Car, Footloose, The Thing, Texas Killing Fields, The Skin I Live In, and Bombay Beach. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

Interested in the latest TV on DVD reviews? DVD Talk has you covered! This week's notable entries include: Casper the Friendly Ghost: The Complete Collection - a memorable and charming cartoon series; Dynasty: Season Five - This fifth installment of this '80s smash success propelled the show to No. 1 in the ratings and contained one of the most talked about and audacious cliffhangers in television history; and The Good Wife: The Second Season - well-acted, tense and very well written. Other shows recently reviewed include:  American Pickers: Volume Two, His Way, and Taylor Swift: Journey To Fearless.  Want more?  Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVDTalk database.

Fans can rejoice as Shout! Factory presents the first-ever comprehensive Barney Miller experience with the release of Barney Miller: The Complete Series. The 25-DVD collection includes the all eight seasons of the iconic series all 168 episodes! Plus there is a wealth of exclusive bonus features include new interviews with stars Hal Linden, Abe Vigoda and Max Gail; the series' original pilot, commentaries and interviews by series writers, and season one of the show's spinoff, Fish, starring Abe Vigoda. Watch these clips from the show He Died of Boredom and A Woman Named Fish as well as these selections from the bonus features Creating the Office and Reality is Funny. Barney Miller: The Complete Series is on sale now!

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including: The Quatermass Xperiment - A parasitical cosmic contagion transforms the first astronaut into a shape-shifting mess, a thing that absorbs and combines other life forms to become -- what, exactly?; The Traveling Executioner - Rescued from undeserved oblivion, this sleazy / macabre / wonderful drama posits the terrific Stacy Keach as a specialist in electrified executions in the South of 1918; and Cosmic Journey - A jovial elder scientist, his secretary-researcher and a Communist Youth League Scout hijack the first rocket to the moon, cavort on its surface and solve a serious technical debacle. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

There are a few new releases this week that you won't want to miss. Check out these hot titles: Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy [Blu-ray review] - Spielberg's thrill-ride trilogy finally arrives on Blu-ray; Attack the Block [Blu-ray review] - Earth's first line of defense turns out to be composed of young teen latch key hoodlums - one of the most entertaining films of the year; and Barney Miller: The Complete Series [DVD review] - one of the best shows from the 70's is finally available in a complete set, filled with some great extras. Other reviews of note include The Conversation [Blu-ray review], Bill Moyers: On Our Own Terms [DVD review], and Eating Out: Drama Camp [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.

This week, Entertainment One invites you to celebrate Halloween with the Mistress of the Dark and her 10th Anniversary Special Enhanced Edition of Elvira's Haunted Hills (watch trailer). The year is 1851. En route to Paris, Elvira's dreams of stardom are put on hiatus when she accidently winds up in a mysterious Carpathian castle inhabited by Lord Hellsubus (Richard O'Brien), a bizarre and sinister man whose late wife is a "dead" ringer for Elvira. Called "the bust-out movie of the year" by Rob Zombie, Elvira's Haunted Hills arrives on DVD bursting with all-new bonus features including the "Transylvania or Bust: Elvira & Company Tell All" Featurette, a cast and crew audio commentary, and never-before-seen outtakes. Enter now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of Elvira's Haunted Hills - Special Enhanced Edition on DVD!

Check out the latest DVD reviews that have been entered into the DVD Talk Review Database including: Batman: Year One - the fifteen-minute Catwoman short is just as appealing as the feature; Zombie - the sheer volume of extras makes this two-set set an essential purchase; and The Four Feathers: The Criterion Collection - a tale of great camaraderie and romance, with big battles and surprisingly complex emotional responses. Other recent reviews include: More Brains! A Return To The Living Dead; The Robber, and Disneynature: African Cats.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

This week Entertainment One invites you to boldly go where only six actors have gone before with The Captains - A Film by William Shatner (watch trailer). Since first soaring onto television screens in the 1960s, Star Trek has become one of the most beloved franchises of all time. Now, the original Captain Kirk, William Shatner, travels around the globe to interview the elite group of actors (Chris Pine, Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew and Scott Bakula) who have portrayed the role of Starship Captain, giving fans an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the pop culture phenomenon as well as the men and women who made it so. Enter now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of The Captains - A Film by William Shatner on DVD!

This week in theaters, Elizabeth Olsen breaks away from a dangerous cult in the haunting festival hit Martha Marcy May Marlene. Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain play a couple torn apart by troubling visions in Take Shelter. And the director of Who Killed the Electric Car returns with the documentary follow-up Revenge of the Electric Car. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Footloose, The Thing, Texas Killing Fields, The Skin I Live In, Bombay Beach, The Ides of March, Real Steel, and The Swell Season. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

After 15 years working in TV, radio and film, British writer director Joe Cornish has finally become an overnight sensation, thanks to his cult hit sci-fi flick Attack the Block, which chronicles the battle between a gang of inner-city London street toughs and the vicious aliens who crash-land in their neighborhood one night. Up next for Cornish is the release of the film on DVD and Blu-Ray (arriving October 25th), the high-profile new Tintin animated movie, which he did a re-write on with pal Edgar Wright, and a co-writing gig with Wright on his highly-anticipated Ant-Man feature film. But first, he took a moment to sit down with DVDTalk's Francis Rizzo III to talk about aliens, anti-heroes and audio commentaries. Check out everything they talked about in this latest DVDTalk Interview.

Interested in the latest TV on DVD reviews? DVD Talk has you covered! This week's notable entries include: Raising Hope: The Complete First Season - creator Greg Garcia's (My Name Is Earl) latest show (My Name Is Earl)is worthy enough to laugh violently while marveling at the smaller moments; The League: The Complete Season Two - After a surprisingly solid first season, the show comes up with one of the best second seasons in sitcom history; and Jem and the Holograms: The Truly Outrageous Complete Series - is this is still a great show... from its initial incarnation up and through its corporate mandated changes, it found a way to match music to message without every once skimping on character or narrative. Other shows recently reviewed include:  Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 V.1, Blue Bloods: The First Season, and The Phantom of Hollywood.  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 and articles including: Attack the Block - Finally, a FUN sci-fi monster show that gives us a break from cookie cutter stupidity and / or social pretension. A gang of teens and pre-teen London punks battle for their lives against a horde of ferocious alien monsters. Besides some real excitement and scary thrills, the whole enterprise is funnier than Hell; The Bad Seed - Child star Patty McCormack is back, slaying foolish adults left and right while asking for baskets of kisses and hugs; and Orpheus - Jean Cocteau defines the Poet's relationship with Death in this amusing, mysterious and elegantly filmed transposition of Greek Myth, one of the greatest fantasies ever filmed. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Some pretty cool discs are being released this week. Check out these new titles: Willy Wonka & Chocolate Factory: 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition [Blu-ray review] - a timeless classic - Wilder's performance is too good to ever have an expiration date and this release is the most complete version to date, especially with the book included; Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides [Blu-ray review] - the best Pirates film since the first; and Red State [DVD review] - Kevin Smith has done an impressive job of delivering a film that is exciting and tense. Other reviews of note include Page One: Inside The New York Times [Blu-ray review], Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest [Blu-ray review, a second Blu-ray review], and The Last Circus [Blu-ray 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.

Our reviewers have been busy this week, filling the DVD Talk Review Database more great entries. Some new reviews of note include: Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938 - The National Film Preservation Foundation has created another must-buy collection that easily earns DVDTalk's highest recommendation; Harakiri - Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 film is a masterpiece of Japanese cinema; and Nothing Personal - an interesting and moving film. Other recent reviews include: Buster Keaton - Short Films Collection: 1920-1923; Lunopolis, and Dirty Like an Angel (Sale comme un ange).  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

The 49th annual New York Film Festival wrapped up last night, and DVD Talk's own Jason Bailey has put together a wrap-up report of some of the highlights of the fest. Read it here, and be sure to check out our reviews from the last week of the festival, including: George Clooney in The Descendants, the latest comedy/drama from acclaimed director Alexander Payne; Michelle Williams slipping into the skin of an icon in My Week with Marilyn, and the wickedly funny documentary portrait of a B-movie legend, Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel.

In this special Halloween edition of The M.O.D. Squad we take a look at some horror films. The column is chock-full of frightful reviews (wait a minute...), with the spotlight on the brilliant Italian psychological/splatter ghost story, A Quiet Place in the Country. We also have capsule reviews of that great Australian genre flick Razorback, The Incredible Melting Man (which proved that Joe Six-pack would go to the theater specifically to see some dude's face melt), and the Lon Chaney 'old house on the hill' silent movie The Monster. We also have announcements about upcoming M.O.D. releases, reviews, and more. Read all about it in the latest installment of The M. O. D. Squad!

This week in theaters, a movie from the '80s that should have been set in the '50s is updated to the '10s in Footloose. Director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. tees up a prequel/remake of John Carpenter's The Thing. And Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Jessica Chastain investigate a series of murders in the Texas Killing Fields. Also in theaters: Antonio Banderas and Pedro Almodovar reteam for the twisted thriller The Skin I Live In and Alma Har'el helms the extraordinary documentary Bombay Beach. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: The Ides of March, Real Steel, The Swell Season, Blackthorn, Incendiary: The Willingham Case, 50/50, Dream House, Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil, Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo, and Moneyball. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

More TV shows have made their way on to DVD, and DVD Talk has got them covered. Check out our reviews of the newest TV releases including: The Monkees: Season 1 - Whether you have fond memories or no memories, it's worth checking out this show as the music remains catchy and the comedy funny decades later; Happy Endings: The Complete First Season - a funny show that features engaging characters worth spending time with; and The Mentalist: The Complete Third Season - this season maintains the high quality of the previous ones and adds a keener insight into its characters, particularly the tragic protagonist Patrick Jane. Other shows recently reviewed include:  In Treatment: The Complete Third Season, Rescue Me: The Sixth Season and the Final Season, and Midsomer Murders: Barnaby's Top 10.  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 and articles including: Dressed to Kill - Brian De Palma plugs an art museum scene from one Hitchcock movie into the entire thematic - visual framework of another Hitchcock movie, adds a lot of voyeuristic sex and comes up with one of his biggest hits; Robocop 2 - Never rescued from its reputation as an underperforming loser, this first RoboCop sequel nevertheless stays true to the original's cynical, violent satire on corporate America's economic makeover of the country; and Stagecoach - One of the biggest "big mistake" remakes of all time, Gordon Douglas's colorful CinemaScope revisit of John Ford's 1939 classic showcases a mixed bag of star talent. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Another banner week for DVDs with the studios releasing some great films such as: Chuck: The Complete Fourth Season [Blu-ray review] - a wonderfully entertaining show that's willing to take risks to keep the program fresh and interesting; Terri [Blu-ray review] - a thoughtful, compassionate, open-eyed and affectionately comical look at a kid who's an outsider; and Horrible Bosses [Blu-ray review] - a helluva lot of fun, and the pretty much perfect cast they've piled together is having such a blast that it really is infectious. Other reviews of note include The Tree of Life [Blu-ray review], Boccaccio '70 [Blu-ray review], and Maniac Cop [Blu-ray 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.

This week the DVD Talk Review Database has some great new entries, including a few discs you may have overlooked. Recent DVD reviews include: Jackie Brown - Quentin Tarantino's only "straight" crime thriller is a masterful adaptation of an Elmore Leonard tale; A Quiet Place in the Country - Writer/director Elio Petri creates a completely unstable environment for his tale of personal madness, artistic chaos, and supernatural violence; and The Last House on the Left - as confrontational and disturbing as ever and this Blu-ray offers it up in the best quality we've seen on home video so far. Other recent reviews include: The Strange Case of Angelica; Visions of Eight, and Frankenhooker.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

The 49th annual New York Film Festival is in full swing, and DVD Talk's own Jason Bailey has taken in several of the fest's most exciting films. Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, and Michael Fassbender star in David Cronenberg's psychological drama A Dangerous Method, while Kirsten Dunst shines in Lars Von Trier's controversial Melancholia. The story of the West Memphis Three comes to a (relatively) happy ending in the new documentary Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory. Elizabeth Olsen gives a breakthrough performance in the extraordinary Martha Marcy May Marlene. And Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is the subject of the experimental documentary This Is Not A Film. Be sure to check out our reviews of earlier NYFF selections, including George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Carnage, A Separation, and Tahrir. You can keep track of Jason's NYFF progress via Twitter, and you can read his festival reviews in our Theatrical Reviews section.

This week in theaters, idealistic Ryan Gosling gets a crash course in presidential politics in George Clooney's The Ides of March. Hugh Jackman enters the fray of robot boxing (yes, seriously) in Real Steel. And the romance of Once gets the nonfiction treatment in The Swell Season. Also in theaters: A controversial Texas death penalty case is investigated in Incendiary: The Willingham Case, and Sam Shepard plays an aged Butch Cassidy in the "what-if" western Blackthorn. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: 50/50, Dream House, Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil, Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo, Moneyball, Killer Elite, Machine Gun Preacher, Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, Puncture, Drive, and The Lion King 3D.. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

TV on DVD remains very popular with more and more favorites being released. New TV reviews include: Police Story - a rock solid set offering up loads of drama, action, adventure and excitement - highly recommended; Modern Family: The Complete Second Season - This is one of those occasions where saying "more of the same" is a firm compliment; and The Office - Season Seven - still the same funny show with writing and performances as outstanding as ever. Other shows recently reviewed include:  Supernatural: The Complete Sixth Season, The Deliberate Stranger, and Wyatt Cenac - Comedy Person.  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 and articles including: Mimic - The timing of the disc release of Guillermo del Toro's intelligent, scary sci-fi tale about a murderous colony of super-cockroaches is astute: it has a lot in common with the big hit Contagion; Hero's Island - This obscure but artistic and well-written Leslie Stevens movie was made just before The Outer Limits; and Visions of Eight - Docu producer David Wolper looses eight international directors on the '72 Munich Olympics in and comes up with some really great sports filmmaking. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Another banner week for DVDs with the studios releasing some great films such as: The Lion King [Blu-ray review] - a shining example of family entertainment done right; Pulp Fiction [Blu-ray review] - accessible, dynamic and thoroughly entertaining from start to finish; and Fast Five [Blu-ray review] - the most satisfying and accomplished series entry yet. Other reviews of note include Pee-wee's Big Adventure [Blu-ray review], American Experience: Houdini [DVD], and Dead Alive [Blu-ray 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 DVD and Blu-ray reviews have been added to the the DVD Talk Review Database recently including: Ken Burns: Prohibition - you'll leave the program feeling entertained and exhilarated, and better informed about the forces that shape American political life; Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition - The cartoon about the child elephant that overcomes adversity to find his true talents still resonates, even as we celebrate the film's 70th birthday; and Sophia Loren: Award Collection - a treasure chest that is nothing less than a cornucopia of cinematic delights. Other recent reviews include: The Phantom Carriage: The Criterion Collection; The Hour: Season 1, and Circo.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

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