This seems to be the week when we review complete Television series. New TV reviews include:  Damages: The Complete First Season - a masterpiece of episodic television, a bloody, occasionally soapy thrill ride that leaves you dazed and breathless; The Rockford Files: Season Five - is another great year of strong episodes for what was maybe TV's all-time best private eye show; and Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Vol. 5 - delightfully offensive and funny for a myriad of wrong reasons; Other shows include:  Lovejoy - The Complete Season Two, This American Life - Season 1, Truth (Korean TV Series), ER - The Complete Eighth Season, and The Triumph and Tragedy of World Class Championship Wrestling.  Want more?  Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVDTalk database.

With Geneon out of the picture and ADV turning quiet all of the sudden things in the anime market have certainly slowed down. Publishers are approaching series differently and their release schedules reflect the uncertainty felt throughout the industry. Here are Anime Talk a few titles have come down the pipeline such as Kiddy Grade, Negima, Tactics, Witchblade, and School Rumble just to throw some names out there. WTK also has his version of an economic stimulus package in the form of a fine collection of bargains. Be sure to catch all this and more in this week's Anime Talk.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: The Apartment Collector's Edition - Billy Wilder's most endearing film is back with an improved transfer and new featurettes; This Sporting Life - Director Lindsay Anderson is given full attention on this 2-disc presentation. Besides his breakthrough first feature with Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts, the disc gives us several of Anderson's short subjects and a long-form career biography; and The Last Sunset - Savant digs back a year to assay a weird Robert Aldrich western with a theme that ... well, can't spoil the movie. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Another banner week for DVDs with the studios releasing some great films and boxed sets such as:  Gone Baby Gone [review] - the directorial debut of actor Ben Affleck, he's created an absorbing, carefully constructed movie about consequences and the unbearable burden of conscience; Lubitsch Musicals [review] - Four films filled with the sophistication, elegance, and playful bawdinessis that Lubitsch was known for, this set is as highly recommended as they come; and Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 4 - Sidney Toler takes over as the inscrutable detective in these four films from the immensely popular series; Other releases of note include:  Becoming Jane, No Reservations,  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (40th Anniversary Edition), George of the Jungle: The Complete Series, The Equalizer - Season One, and The Joan Crawford Collection, Vol. 2. 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 some discs you may have overlooked. Recent DVD Reviews include: Jean Luc Godard: 3 Disc Collector's Edition - four films from the justly famous cantankerous provocateur, all of which are excellent. Give your brain a good tease and pick this set up.; Michael Clayton - a brilliantly executed, clear-eyed thriller that hits the bullseye; Across the Universe - a film that is daring enough to take chances, shaping something distinctive and visually dazzling around dozens of The Beatles' most enduring songs; and She's Gotta Have It - Spike Lee's inaugural movie remains one of the most impressive debut feature films by a director in the last thirty years; Other recent reviews include: Margot at the Wedding, Personal Best, The Draughtsman's Contract, Quincy Jones: 50 Years in Music - Live at Montreux 1996, and For The Bible Tells Me So.  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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