Vin Diesel and Paul Walker reteam to hunt bad guys and peel out with the automobile actioner Fast & Furious. The conventions and quirks of the 1950's sci-fi genre are reimagined in Alien Trespass. And disgruntled youth take cruddy theme park jobs while they live and love in Adventureland. DVD Talk critics Brian Orndorf and Jamie S. Rich board the time machine. Also in theaters: Andy Griffith is the unlikely lead in the senior sex comedy Play the Game. Forbidden Love author Norma Khouri is revealed to be a scam artist in the documentary Forbidden Lies. Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel learn about maturity in Gigantic. Monsters run wild in Big Man Japan. And a Dominican Republic pitcher takes his shot at baseball glory in the drama Sugar. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Monsters vs. Aliens, 12 Rounds, Taken, The Haunting in Connecticut, Best Worst Movie, Knowing, I Love You, Man, Last House on the Left, Sunshine Cleaning, Duplicity, Race to Witch Mountain, and Watchmen. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: The Cremator - Dark Sky gives us a weird Czech offering from the late 1960s, a surreal, profane nightmare film about a crematory director given delusions of grandeur by Nazi invaders -- he believes he's been chosen as an angel of death; Pre-Code Hollywood Collection - The Universal Backlot Series gives us six Paramount Pre-Codes featuring lust, sin and a surfeit of unclothed showgirls: The Cheat, Merrily We Go to Hell, Hot Saturday, Torch Singer, Murder at the Vaniities and Search for Beauty. To help check off the violations, it comes with a printed copy of the entire Production Code, every "thou shalt not" included; and Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] - Daniel Craig's second outing is good entertainment, a Bond with a new style but from the old mold. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Interested in the latest TV on DVD reviews? DVD Talk has you covered! This week's notable entries include:  The Beverly Hillbillies - The Third Season - One of the best sitcoms ever produced, this season is brilliant, simply brilliant; Rookies - The Complete Season 1 - a very interesting, involving reality series, providing the viewer with a vivid portrait of field training of police and its enormous pressures; and One Foot in the Grave: Season 5 this British comedy is brilliantly funny and surreal, as well as touching and thoughtful at times. Other shows recently reviewed include:  Barney Miller - The Complete Third Season, The Girls Next Door - Season 4, and The Riches: Season 2.  Want more?  Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVDTalk database.

The studios have announced some great shows and movies coming to DVD and Blu-ray including : Desperate Housewives: The Complete Fifth Season the dark comedy/drama returns for a fifth season this fall. It's scheduled to hit shelves on 9/1/09; Louis Malle's famous film about a dinner conversation gets the Criterion Treatment this June 23rd when My Dinner with Andre is released; and music fans will get to see one of the most famous concert events when Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Director's Cut (40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition ) is released on DVD and Blu-ray on 6/9/09. Amazon will have exclusive versions of both format that include a bonus disc with "additional never-before-seen performance footage from Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Country Joe and the Fish plus three additional featurettes!" Keep track of all the upcoming DVDs with the DVDTalk Release List.

There's a few new releases this week that you won't want to miss. Titles such as: Slumdog Millionaire - the big winner at this year's Academy Awards, taking home 8 Oscars including Best Picture arrives on DVD and Blu-ray; Marley and Me [1st review, 2nd review] - a film with ample charm provided by Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, who are both more appealing than they've been in many of their recent efforts; and Tell No One [DVD review, Blu-ray review]- an astonishingly well-crafted thriller: visually sumptuous, unrelentingly tense, and striking the perfect balance between dense plotting and strong characterization. Other releases of note include:  The Matrix 10th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Book [Blu-ray], Ricky Gervais: Out of England - The Stand-Up Special [review], and Star of David: Hunting for Beautiful Girls [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.

DVDTalk is proud to announce that Glenn Erickson, the DVD Savant, has received the 2008 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for DVD Reviewer of the Year! This is the seventh year that the Rondo's have been given out and the first year that they've honored a DVD reviewer. If you haven't read Glenn's insightful and compelling reviews yet, be sure to check them out on the DVD Savant page. There you'll find reviews on everything from the latest Blu-rays to the most obscure Hollywood B pictures. The page is updated twice a week, at least, so be sure to check back often. Want to get a head's up on everything Glenn is covering? Be sure to subscribe to the weekly DVD Savant Newsletter. The awards will be given out at the Wonderfest Convention in Louisville on May 16, 2009. Congratulations Glenn!

From recent Disney classics getting the deluxe treatment to thee newest tween sensation arriving on DVD, this week the DVD Talk Review Database has added a little of everything. Check out some of the more notable reviews including: Lilo & Stitch 2-Disc Big Wave Edition - definitely worth picking up whether you already own the original or not; The Last Metro - Criterion Collection - a rich package for a richly structured film; and Twilight - a charming movie and for a teen-marketed film, it is at the top of its class. Other recent reviews include: The Last House on the Left, Azur and Asmar: The Princes' Quest, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Home & Studio.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

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