Heading into the holiday weekend the latest Blockbuster looking to strike box office gold is Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End - Captain Jack Sparrow and company finish up the thrill-ride of a trilogy which delivers as the proverbial popcorn movie. Lion's Gate may have tried to hide Bug from critics, but DVD Talk's Brian Orndorf quite liked this unique dramatic thriller. Luc Besson returns to the silver screen this week with Angel-A- a dear and surprising film that ranks with his best. Another film out this week that's under the radar screen is Paprika - the latest treat from Satoshi Kon (director of Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, and Tokyo Godfathers). We're also excited to give you a sneak peek at Knocked Up - which debuts next week from Judd Apatow, it's a movie so good you should mark the release date on your calendar. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Shrek the Third, Spider-Man 3, 28 Weeks Later, Georgia Rule, The Ex, Away From Her, Blind Dating, Waitress, Lucky You, Killer of Sheep. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films in theaters in our Movie Talk Forum Area.

It's been an extremely slow year for Silent films on DVD this year. After a bit of a hiatus our Silent DVD returns with a round up of recently released silent DVDs. Included in this installment of Silent DVD are overviews of Smiles & Spectacles - The Harold Lloyd Treasury and Kino's Reel Baseball. In addition we have an extended review of Romance of the Western Chamber - a rather rare item to DVD; a silent movie from China. Romance of the Western Chamber was made in Shanghai in 1927, and is based on the play of the same name that dates back to the Yuan Dynasty (1234-1368). It's short, lasting only 42 minutes, but has some interesting aspects including some martial arts fighting and a large scale battle. Read this installment of Silent DVD. In case you missed them be sure to check out our past Silent DVD columns including a look at Pandora's Box, Criterion's King of Kings and Lubitsch in Berlin.

A number of notable TV on DVD releases reviewed recently including: Seinfeld - Season 8 - a season that's a real treat for fans, giving us a chance to really enjoy the humor of self-reference as well as the hilarious stories about the "nothing" of daily life; Jesse Stone: Death In Paradise and Jesse Stone: Night Passage - two extremely solid mysteries from Robert B. Parker with a steady drumbeat of melancholy, regret and guilt essayed by Tom Selleck; Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. 11-Collection - another solid entry in the series with Ring of Terror being the real highlight. Other TV on DVD Reviewed recently includes: Gilmore Girls: Season 6, Highlander - Ultimate Collection, The OC: Season 4, The Waltons: Season 5, The War At Home: Season 1. 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: Black Test Car - Acidic satirist Yasuzo Masumura looks at take-no-prisoners industrial espionage between two companies vying for the Japanese car market; The Screwfly Solution - Joe Dante's Masters of Horror episode is a daring Sci-Fi horror piece that directly confronts the genre's tendency to celebrate violence against women; Apocalypto - Mel Gibson delivers a violent, exciting and historically fascinating thriller 500 years in the making; The Third Man - Criterion brings back Harry Lime and Holly Martins, along with a new transfer and a second disc of incisive documentaries; The Tyrone Power Swashbuckler Box Set - Tyrone Power stands tall in five of his best pictures; Violette - Isabelle Huppert is the notorious 1930s teen killer of France in a Claude Chabrol classic; I Pass for Human - An indie micro- horror movie with a good twist; Jane Eyre - Orson Welles' voice echoes over the moors to summon Joan Fontaine in Robert Stevenson's moody adaptation. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

A great week for quality notable DVDs including: Letters from Iwo Jima [Review] & Flags of Our Fathers [Review] - Clint Eastwood takes a look at a key moment in history from opposite perspectives in a breathtaking achievement; Good German [Review] - Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney team up again in a tribute to the films from Hollywood's Golden Age; Apocalypto [Review] - an impressive action thriller that plunges us headlong into the alien culture of the Mayans, five hundred years ago. Other notable DVDs out this week include: Afro Samurai, Fay Grim [Review], The Italian [Review], Kyle Xy: S1 [Review], Scrubs: S5 [Review] Venus[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.

With over 19K DVD reviews in the DVD Talk Review Database, it's easy to overlook some of the great reviews. Recent DVD Reviews include: Fired - when Annabelle Gurwitch got fired from a Woody Allen play she picked herself up (and and camera) and made an extremely enjoyable documentary that you shouldn't miss; The Dead Girl - a dark, compelling film about the reverberations of murder; The Third Man - Criterion - Sometimes a cliché is a cliché because it's true, and sometimes a movie is a classic because it's that good; True Grit: SE - a masterpiece of elemental, Western mythos aligned with Wayne's masterful burlesque of his two most recognizable screen incarnations. Other new DVDs recently reviewed include: Alone With Her, Army of Shadows, Comedy of Power, Hellboy: Blood and Iron, Regular Lovers and Vengeance Is Mine. 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 the ability to Browse reviews by studio.

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