Want to get the latest scoop on the events, panels, and annoucements from this year's New York Comic Con? DVD Talk has it covered. Reviewer Francis Rizzo III is in the Big Apple attending panels, sitting through screenings, and getting little sleep. This year the movie presence has definitely jumped up, the panels have been terrific, and the artists alley, which was a claustrophobic nightmare last time, is great, which has made for an awesome start. Francis will be updating his blog as often as he can, so check it out throughout the weekend.

Jason Segel learns the harsh realities of a broken relationship in the magnificent Judd Apatow-produced comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Jackie Chan and Jet Li team up to make audiences sleepy in the tired martial arts epic The Forbidden Kingdom. And Jenna Jameson goes undead and anti-Bush in the curdled campy comedy Zombie Strippers! Also in theaters: Al Pacino has a short amount of time to kill his career in 88 Minutes, Morgan Spurlock hunts down terrorism with Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, and a battle of conscience is fought between Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood in The Life Before Her Eyes. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Street Kings, Prom Night, The Visitor, Young @ Heart, My Blueberry Nights, Smart People, Nim's Island, and The Ruins. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

Though it may be easy to look at the anime market and think doom and gloom, I look at it as an opportunity to catch up on stuff I may have missed. This time around we drudge up some reviews from our archives that you may have missed as well as feature new titles such as xxxHolic, Witchblade's final volume, Haruka, Super Robot Wars, Black Cat, and many others. Wen-Tsai also has his recession shopping guide to help you out! Check it all out in this week's Anime Talk!

TV on DVD remains very popular with more and more favorites being released. New TV reviews include:  Perry Mason - 50th Anniversary Edition - a great show with even weaker episodes being passable entertainment, while the best shows rank among the best ever done for American television; The Adams Chronicles - which features breathtaking attention to historical detail and a host of simply amazing performances; SpongeBob SquarePants - Pest of the West - another sensational collection of SpongeBob SquarePants cartoons that proves again that it's the best cartoon out there today - bar none; Other shows include:  Matlock - The First Season, My Boy Jack,  and I Remember Nelson. 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: The Fall of the Roman Empire - The Weinstein Company pulls out the stops for this Limited Collectors' Edition of what may be the most lavish costume epic ever filmed outside the Soviet Union. Stephen Boyd, Sophia Loren, Alec Guinness and Christopher Plummer lead an enormous cast; director Anthony Mann films some of the biggest sets ever constructed; A Passage to India (Blu-Ray) - Sony's Blu-ray edition of the David Lean classic adds a battery of good new featurettes with cast and crew, also in 1080 hi-def. The beautiful images of India are twice as pretty in the new format; and The Kite Runner - Khalid Hosseini's best-seller is one of the best films of 2007, a tale of personal atonement and cultural identity in a country invaded by the Soviets and oppressed by the Taliban. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

This week has a good number of highly anticipated films making their way to DVD. Be sure to check out these new discs:  Lars and the Real Girl [review] - a bittersweet story of a troubled young man desperate to connect with life and a community that is committed to helping him; Juno [review] - a smart, funny, heartfelt gem of a film that is arty enough for those with a refined taste, but still has a crowd-pleasing sensibility that can endear it to a mass audience; and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead [review] - a vertiginous marvel that is told in a dizzying out-of-sequence style that matches the complexity of the drama. Veteran director Sidney Lumet proves he's still got a lot of kicks in him yet.; Other releases of note include:  Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem [review], The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [review], and Blast of Silence - Criterion Collection [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 we have another special giveaway from Paramount Home Entertainment! Enter now for your chance to win one of five copies of Cloverfield! When five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives! Be sure to read Randy Miller III's review of the disc and then click here for your chance to win a copy on DVD!