This month's installment of Anime Talk is really exciting. Not only do we cover all of the latest anime releases including the excellent Moonlight Mile, a new Shonen Jump-based show, D. Gray-Man, and wonderful Mysterious Cities of Gold, but we have the latest anime bargains too. This month we're also happy to announce that The Right Stuf has come on board as the column's official sponsor! Check out all this and much more in this month's installment of Anime Talk!

Tom Hanks returns as expert code breaker Robert Langdon in Ron Howard's Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons. Stories of Mexican immigration and horrific gang life collide in the masterful Sin Nombre. And Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn play the game of love in the uneven romantic comedy Management. Also in theaters: Bloodthirsty monsters and domestic happiness have met their doom in the Big Man Japan. And a shy guy finds a second chance in the world of Salsa dancing in The Big Shot-Caller. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Star Trek, The Girlfriend Experience, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Rudo y Cursi, Obsessed, The Soloist, Fighting, S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale, 17 Again, Tyson, and Next Day Air. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

Interested in the latest TV on DVD reviews? DVD Talk has you covered! This week's notable entries include:  The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - Paralyzingly funny,this is one of the best sitcoms from the 1970s and is required viewing for anyone interested in fine television comedy; Frost/Nixon: Complete Interviews - a penetrating and important piece of television history and a fascinating portrait of one of our young nation's most tragically flawed figures; and Peyton Place - Part One - expertly-crafted melodrama, with at times poetic, lyrical scripting, and sensational performances. Other shows recently reviewed include:  Russell Brand in New York City, Marvel X-Men Volume 2 and The Nanny - The Complete Third Season.  Want more?  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: Wayne's World [Blu-ray] - A good test of essential coolness: seventeen years later, are Wayne and Garth still cool? The movie itself has kept fairly fresh; Science is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé - A fascinating career on film -- a French film director created unusual nature and science studies -- influenced by the Avant-Garde movement! Great science and fine art in one package. With other odd Painlevé films, like a 30's color stop-motion animation operetta; and Paycheck [Blu-ray] - The premise of this Sci-Fi thriller is rather ambitious (the source is a Philip K. Dick story) but John Woo turns much of it into standard action escapism: see men point guns at each other's heads! Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Check out some of the great new titles that have been announced including: Green Lantern: First Flight - DC Comic's Emerald Avenger will be flying onto screens on 7-28-09 on both DVD and Blu-ray; The first season of the Dennis Hopper-led series Crash, based on the movie of the same name, will also be released on DVD and Blu-ray on 8-25-09; and the latest Drew Barrymore romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You will be available on DVD and Blu-ray on 6-2-09. Keep track of all the upcoming DVDs with the DVDTalk Release List.

Some great DVDs are being released this week, and DVDTalk has them covered. Some of the more notable releases include: Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection [Blu-ray] - which features all six original crew movies as well as a bonus disc that contains a 70-minute round table interview with members from the original series as well as the Next Generation; Plague Town [review] - a smart, economical, gory thriller; and Taken [DVD review, a 2nd DVD review] - a tight, twisted, lovable distraction that packs a wallop over 90 taut, tempting Liam Neesony minutes. Other releases of note include:  Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy [review], Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (Blu-ray) [review], and Galaxy Quest: Deluxe Edition [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's Jason Bailey has spent the better part of the last two weeks losing sleep, eating irregular meals, and blogging from his cell phone all in order to catch as many movies as possible at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. He managed to take in 30 features, including Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience, unexpectedly daring and immensely rewarding film; Outrage - an examination of the closeted hypocrisy of secretly-gay lawmakers; and In the Loop - a delightfully smart British comedy with James Gandolfini. Which flicks are must-sees and which ones "shouldn't [see] the light of a DVD laser, much less the screens of a reputable film festival like this one"? Check out Jason's wrap up of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

Some great DVD reviews have been added to the the DVD Talk Review Database recently, so many that it's hard to decide which ones to profile. Here are some of the stand out discs you might want to check out: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - The First Season - The series looks and sounds absolutely astounding, a huge step up from its original 4:3 standard-def network airings; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) - this film hits all the right chords and features a basket full of stellar performances from all involved; and RiffTrax: Reefer Madness - MST alumni add an uproarious Rifftrax commentary to one of the great bad movies of all time. Other recent reviews include: Alexandra, Empire of Passion - Criterion Collection, and Treasures From American Film Archives - Encore Edition.  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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