Yo Joe! Or maybe, oh no Joe! The G.I. Joe toy line gets a shot a silver screen glory in the big-budget blockbuster G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. DVD Talk critics Brian Orndorf and Tyler Foster review the war. Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is the woman looking to celebrate her culinary gifts in Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia. And suspense tries to find a few new twists in the thriller A Perfect Getaway. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Funny People, The Collector, Aliens in the Attic, The Cove, Bruno, Orphan, The Ugly Truth, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, G-Force, (500) Days of Summer, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Humpday, The Hurt Locker, and The Hangover. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

Some great TV shows have been released lately. Check out some of the recommended shows including: Psych: The Complete Third Season - With this third season the show seems new and fresh. They've added a bit more continuity, flashed out the characters backgrounds a little, and upped the humor quotient some; The Middleman: The Complete Series - needs to be in the DVD collection of several million genre fans, and it needs to be there yesterday; and Torchwood: Children of Earth - The performances are uniformly brilliant, the writing is phenomenal, the direction slick and always on the mark. One of the finest science fiction works in recent memory. check out these reviews too:  The updated review of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Season One that includes comments on the unaired 13th episode, Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods and Florence Nightingale (1985).  Want more?  Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVDTalk database.

From would-be summer blockbusters to cult TV shows and genuine classics, there have been some good DVD announcements recently. Check out these upcoming titles: Find out just how Wolverine came to be and learn all about the mysterious heros past in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, available on DVD and Blu-ray on Sept. 15th; You'll soon be able to watch Calista Flockhart get skinnier and skinnier when the quirky dramedy Ally McBeal: The Complete Series is released on October 6th; and the classic Alfred Hitchcock film, North by Northwest will be released in a 50th Anniversary Edition on both DVD and a Blu-ray book on November 3rd. Keep track of all the upcoming releases with the DVDTalk Release List.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Door Into Silence - Lucio Fulci's last feature is a gore-free mood piece with John Savage. Too predictable but a nice effort; Playtime [Blu-ray] - Jacques Tati's gargantuan comedy filmed in 65mm is a natural for HD presentation; and Karanlik Sular - PAL Region 2 review . UK correspondent Lee Broughton weighs in on a Turkish horror film, said to be a class act with high production values. Stars Gonen Bozbey and Metin Uygun! Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Well, it's a bit of a slow week on new releases. They all can't be winners I guess. Still, there are a few new titles worth checking out, such as: Race to Witch Mountain [Blu-ray review]- Pure escapism with a strong fantasy element, the film boasts some great action sequences and a very appealing lead performance by Dwayne Johnson; The Soloist [DVD review, Blu-ray review] - this is a movie that deals in the messiness and loose ends of real life, and it's in that emotional chaos that this film finds its greatness. Other releases of note include:  Project Runway: Season Five [DVD review], Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Second Season , and Agatha Christie - Marple - Series 4 [DVD 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.

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The DVD Talk Review Database continues to grow and has nearly 30,000 reviews currently. Check out these latest entries: 12 - packed with powerful performances our reviewer was transfixed and engaged throughout the movie's entire 160 minutes; Audience Of One - this documentary about a minister who became convinced that God had given him the command to make a movie deserves an audience of many; and The Union: The Business Behind Getting High - no matter how you feel about marijuana, you'll be thoroughly entertained by this clever, funny and thoughtful documentary. Other recent reviews include: Fast & Furious (2009), Rosarigasinos, and Life Is Hot In Cracktown.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews.

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