Fox Mulder and Dana Scully emerge from a 10-year-long big-screen hiatus with the provocative sci-fi sequel The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly trade punches and laughs in Step Brothers. And trouble has returned, in the form of lousy filmmaking and Corey Feldman in the needless remake Lost Boys: The Tribe. Also in theaters: The Midwestern teenage experience is exposed in the documentary American Teen. A classic novel is brought to life in Brideshead Revisited. The astonishing story of World Trade Center daredevil Philippe Petit is recalled in Man on Wire. 1994 lives in the hip-hop drama The Wackness. Houdini finds his greatest trap in Catherine Zeta Jones in Death Defying Acts. And horror and comedy find independent film stasis in the dreadful Baghead. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: The Dark Knight, Mamma Mia!, Hellboy II: the Golden Army, Wanted, Wall-E, Hancock, Encounters at the End of the World, Space Chimps, Up the Yangtze, Diminished Capacity, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Get Smart, And Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

Not able to go to this year's Comic Con in San Diego? Not to worry, DVDTalk has you covered. Intrepid reporter Daniel Hirshleifer is there fighting the crowds so you don't have to. He'll be reporting on all the media announcements, flim panels and more. Find out the latest goings on in his DVDTalk exclusive blog. Be sure to check back frequently as he'll be updating it all weekend.

Another great week for TV on DVD reviews with some wonderful shows, both new and old, arriving on DVD. Reviews you'll want to check out include: Psych - The Complete Second Season - a series that doesn't take itself too seriously with a cast that is obviously enjoying themselves; Monk - Season Six - a really fun television series that deftly mixes comedy, mystery, and crime; and Teen Titans - The Complete Fifth Season - This final season of the show hits all the right marks. Other shows include:  Jake and the Fatman - Season One, Volume One, Sweet Spy (Korean TV Series), and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit - The Seventh Year.  Want more?  Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVDTalk database.

We keep buying 'em and the studios keep putting 'em out. Here are some of the recently announced DVDs: Family Guy, Vol. 6 - the Griffins return for another three discs worth of fun on 10-21-2008; Speed Racer - The Wachowski brothers turn the classic cartoon into a real life/CGI extravaganza which arrives on DVD on 9-16-08; and Baby Mama SNL alumni Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's wacky comedy delivers on 9-9-2008; Other newly announced titles include: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (3 Disc Unrated Collector's Edition) 9-30-2008, Comedy Central Salutes George W. Bush 10-21-2008 and L.A. Confidential (Two-Disc Special Edition) 9-23-08. 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 Savant has a number of new reviews including: Stop-Loss - Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish star in a story of an ugly policy being exploited in the Iraq war -- what John Kerry called a "back door draft". An eye-opening film in support of our troops deployed overseas; Berlin-Schonhauser Corner - First Run Features comes up with a winner, a great co-feature for The Lives of Others. This East German juvenile deliquency picture from 1957 bears close parallels with American JD films, but with a pronounced socialist message. An effective piece of propaganda that the East Germans tried to suppress -- because, as everyone knows, the perfect Worker's Society doesn't have juvenile delinquency!; and Before the Rain - Milo Manchevski's 1994 tale of ethnic and religious violence in Macedonia, told in three oddly intersecting episodes. Stars Katrin Cartlidge and Rade Serbdzija, from Criterion. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

This week the studios have some good releases scheduled, everything from BBC comedies to classic European films. A few of the more notable releases include: 21 [review] propelled by deft camerawork, lavish production design, and an infectious, electronic-heavy soundstack this film is a blast to watch; Spaced: The Complete Series [review] - a genuinely funny and utterly brilliant show; and Vampyr - Criterion Collection [review]- Dreyer has crafted a magnificent work, one that is both haunting and engaging. Other new releases include:  Comedy Central's TV Funhouse [review], Robot Chicken: Star Wars and Earth - The Biography. 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.

The Inglorious Bastards is more than just the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's long-rumored next movie; this 1978 international smash remains perhaps the biggest and most badass war movie in EuroCult history! Exploitation legends Fred 'The Hammer' Williamson and Bo (Walking Tall, Kill Bill) Svenson star as the leaders of a gang of condemned criminals who escape from an Allied prison camp with a plan to blast their way to the Swiss border, only to find themselves 'volunteering' for a suicide mission deep inside Nazi occupied France. Academy Award¨ nominee Ian Bannen (Flight of the Phoenix, Braveheart) co-stars in this explosive action epic from director Enzo Castellari (Street Law, The Big Racket), now fully restored from original vault elements for the first time ever in America! Now available in a 3 Disc Explosive Special Edition! Check out these three clips from the movie: Fred Williamson Intro, Firefight, and Bridge Attack!

This week the DVD Talk Review Database has some great new entries, from classic Hollywood fare to '80 comedies and some excellent foreign films. Be sure to check out some of the recent entries including: Tyrone Power Matinee Idol Collection - best of this 10 moive lot show why Power stood at the apex of Fox's star system for close to two decades; High and Low: Criterion Collection - this film remains one of Kurosawa's lesser-known masterpieces...and arguably the best of his contemporary films; and Don Camillo and The Return of Don Camillo - charming little comedies featureing the great French comedy star Fernandel that deserve a wider American audience. Other recent reviews include: Desperate Characters, Jacques Tati's Trafic - Criterion Collection, and Before the Rain - Criterion Collection.  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.

The 13th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival was held on July 11-13, and DVD Talk reviewer and silent film buff John Sinnott was there to cover the whole event. With such diverse films as Harold Lloyd's The Kid Brother, Lon Chaney and Todd Browning's The Unknown, and Japanese master Teinosuke Kinugasa's Jujiro there was something for everyone. Read John's take on the festival in this week's Silent DVD and make your plans to join him next year now. Be sure to check out other recent columns including a look at the films of magician Harry Houdini and Kino's First Ladies: Early Women Filmmakers series

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