James Cameron returns to cinemas with the mind-blowing 3-D epic Avatar. Read reviews from Brian Orndorf and Jamie S. Rich. Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker hate Wyoming in the rancid comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans?. And Daniel Day-Lewis has trouble juggling an assortment of gorgeous women in the Felliniesque musical Nine. Read reviews from Brian Orndorf and Jason Bailey. Also in theaters: Emily Blunt suffers the trials of a queen in the period drama The Young Victoria. Jeff Bridges goes country in Crazy Heart. And stop-motion animation finds A Town Called Panic. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: The Princess and the Frog, A Single Man, Invictus, Brothers, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Up in the Air, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, 2012, The Blind Side, The Lovely Bones, and Me and Orson Welles. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) return to movie theaters across America this holiday season with special guest "Weird Al" Yankovic as they take on the bizarre animated "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and other classic Christmas shorts and commercials in RiffTrax LIVE: Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza! The exclusive, in-theater event was broadcast live last night, and DVDTalk reviewer John Sinnott was there to catch all of the hilarity. Check out his review and then make plans to see the pre-recorded encore tonight, Thursday, Dec. 17th!

TV on DVD remains very popular with more and more favorites being released. New TV reviews include: Farscape: The Complete Series - All four seasons of this incredible sci-fi series are back in print at last; Into the Storm - The sharp screenplay and a brilliant turn by Brendan Gleeson as Winston Churchill make this a memorable look at one of the twentieth century's key figures; and SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 6, Volume 1 - the season started off wobbly, but rebounded quite nicely with some of the funniest SpongeBob cartoons in recent memory. Other shows recently reviewed include:  The Judy Garland Show, Vol. 2, Murphy's Law: Series One and The Bronte Collection.  Want more?  Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVDTalk database.

A few notable discs have been announced in the past week or so. Check out these new titles: The Invention of Lying on DVD and Blu-ray - Ricky Gervais gathers an all-star team of actors in this outrageous comedy. It will be available on 1/19/10; and Sony is releasing two collections of Noir films: Bad Girls of Film Noir 1 which includes The Killer That Stalked New York, Two Of A Kind, Bad For Each Other, and The Glass Wall and Bad Girls of Film Noir 2 which will have Night Editor, One Girl's Confession, Women's Prison, and Over-Exposed. Both will arrive on 2/9/10. Keep track of all the upcoming releases with the DVDTalk Release List.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Gimme Shelter [Blu-ray] - Criterion returns for a Blu-ray edition of the Maysles Brothers classic concert film, the one that records the misery of Altamont, and the end of the Summer of Love years; Taking Woodstock [Blu-ray] - Ang Lee's comedy drama of the behind-the-scenes genesis of the Woodstock festival becomes an amusing circus of hippie-era observations and historic recreation. Viewers of the concert movie will enjoy its interesting point of view; and Mission to Moscow - This jaw-dropping wartime propaganda movie about the Soviet Union tells more political lies than I've heard since Reagan was the governor of California! A shameless whitewash of Stalin's terror state, starring Walter Huston at the top of over a hundred speaking roles. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Some cool discs have been reviewed over the past week. Check out these recent entries: (500) Days of Summer - without a doubt one of the more thoughtful and memorable romantic comedies to have been released in quite awhile; Black Rain (Kuroi ame) - an exceptional dramatic consideration of the immediate and lingering physical and psychological injuries caused in the first instance by the atomic bomb; and TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Holiday - four excellent holiday-themed films: The Shop Around the Corner, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, Christmas in Connecticut and A Christmas Carol (1938). Other recent reviews include: Nutcracker (Blu-ray), In Search of Mozart, and Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews.

This week sees a couple of highly anticipated releases hitting store shelves, along with several other solid titles: Inglourious Basterds [Blu-ray review] - Quentin Tarantino returns with an exploitation war movie that stands up as superior world-class cinema; The Hangover - [DVD review] - a ridiculously funny movie with laughs from end to end. Other releases of note include:  G-Force, Taking Woodstock [DVD review], and Herb & Dorothy [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.

This month DVDTalk reviewer Stuart Galbraith IV takes over our Book Talk column with his take on a pair of interesting books. The first is The Twilight Zone - Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic by Martin Grams, Jr., an utterly indispensable 800-page reference to Rod Serling's classic 1959-1964 anthology series. Following that is a review of Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men - The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda by Peter H. Brothers. Brother's offering is a film-by-film guide to the Japanese director's (who collaborated with Akira Kurosawa later in life) 25 fantasy features, preceded by an approximately 60-page overview of Honda's life and career. Check out the previous installments to read reviews of Stuart's own book on Japanese Cinema, biographies of silent star Eyelyn Brent and director King Vidor, and much more!

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