Anime Talk is back once again with a few more capsule reviews including Coyote Ragtime Show and Noein Volume 2. Save some more green with Anime Bargains courtesy of WTK and find something to look forward to with an upcoming release list. We also have a featured review for FUNimation's new show Solty Rei. Science fiction, mystery, drama, and comedy all come together to form a show that feels familiar, yet different. The world of anime is off to a great start in 2007 though we have a feeling that the best is yet to come. In case you missed them, be sure to catch previous Anime Talk Columns including: Top Ten Anime DVDs of 2006 and Gunbuster.

Solid TV on DVD releases continue to be the highlight of the month, and we've recently reviewed: The Johnny Carson Show - an invaluable look at a critical, pivotal moment in future television icon Johnny Carson's career; The Golden Girls - The Complete Seventh and Final Season - one of the most popular shows of its kind in its final season; The Street - a harrowing, gritty look at a nondescript backstreet in a Northern England town; Murder, She Wrote - The Complete Fifth Season - excellent mysteries for this strong season, fun guest stars, the always dependable production polish, and the invaluable, enchanting Angela Lansbury; Benny Hill Complete and Unadulterated - The Hill's Angels Years, Set Six - not the best place to start, nor a great way to send off one of England's finest comics, but there's enough here that works. Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted TV on DVD.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Band of Angels - This overheated exercise in antebellum bad taste combines a realistic depiction of the slave trade with anachronistic attitudes from the 50s Civil Rights era when it was made; Hollywoodland - Sleazy private eye Adrien Brody digs into the mysterious death of Superman actor George Reeves, wondering how far he can go before Tinseltown retaliates; Robert Mitchum The Signature Collection - Warners gives us a fat box with six Mitchum vehicles: Angel Face, Macao, Home from the Hill, The Sundowners, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys and The Yakuza; Looker - Michael Crichton's murder thriller lumps plastic surgery, CGI moviemaking, hypnotic weaponry and a corporate conspiracy into an uneven thriller brimming with visionary ideas; Slaughter of the Vampires - Cheeky undead aristocrat Dieter Eppler really messes up Walter Brandi's household in this Italian-German monster mash, heavily 'patterened' after Horror of Dracula. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

A number of notable DVDs out this week including: Lucky Louie: S1 [Review] - one of the most brutally honest and hilarious shows about relationships broke new ground for HBO and reinvigorated the sitcom genre; Open Season [Review] - this lightweight adventure occasionally offers a few inspired moments, but those looking for interesting characters and great music will walk away disappointed; Unknown [Review] - part Reservoir Dogs and part Saw, Unknown is a film packed with notable actors that never really saw the inside of theaters, but can now be discovered on DVD; Looker [Review] - best selling author Michael Crichton takes a trip to the Director's chair in this guilty pleasure from the early eighties. Other notable DVDs out this week include: Catch a Fire [Review], Comedians of Comedy [Review], The Marine [Review], The Motel [Review], The Silence of the Lambs: SE and Viva Pedro - Pedro Almodovar Classics Collection. 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.

When Jamaican musician Bob Marley died in 1981, the world mourned. In Jamaica reggae artists from around the world convened in a secret and off-the-beaten path wilderness area called Look Behind. The mourning and celebration of Bob Marley's life was captured in The Land of The Look Behind by director Alan Greenberg and cinematographer Jorg Schmidt-Reitwein, both longtime associates of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog. Now for the first time ever on DVD The Land of The Look Behind features: music by Bob Marley and The Wailers, Gregory Isaacs and many other reggae greats, new HD 16x9 transfer from original camera negative, Commentary with Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man,) director Alan Greenberg, and Norman Hill. Check out these clips for The Land of The Look Behind: Another World, Dissenters, The Funeral of Bob Marley, Marley's Legacy and The Music. Get more info on The Land of The Look Behind here.

With over 18,300 DVD reviews in the DVD Talk Review Database, it's easy to overlook some of the great reviews. Recent DVD Reviews include: Hellboy: Sword of Storms - an entertaining extension of the Hellboy franchise; Half Nelson - With fully realized characters and the ability to surprise and challenge audience expectations, Half Nelson can be a devastating experience; The Grudge 2 - a horror franchise which trusts the viewers imagination; Saw III - stands not only as a fitting finale to the first phase of this series, but it is also a glorious gorefest destined to fill the splatter aficionado with untold moments of mindless mayhem merriment; Fiddler on the Roof: 2-Disc Collector's Edition - a fantastic film in every way possible with some truly beautiful musical numbers, gorgeous sets and cinematography; Jesus Camp - a wonderful look at how adults imprint their own values onto children, and, no matter how unbiased the film is, how disturbing that control can be when it's used to attempt revolution; Cocaine Cowboys - less documentary and more full-fledged gangster flick, it's a machine gun-paced exploration of South Florida's cocaine trade in the late Seventies and early Eighties; Red Doors - what looked like a chick flick at first has surprised by being a very solid story of love, loss and family, directed with style and a welcome lack of flash. Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week including a new feature which lets you Browse reviews by studio.

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