Natalie Portman heads to the brink of madness in Darren Aronofsky's ballet horror experience Black Swan. Read reviews from Brian Orndorf, Jamie S. Rich, Jason Bailey, and Thomas Spurlin. Kate Bosworth and Geoffrey Rush take on ninjas in the actioner The Warrior's Way. And Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor engage in love and prison escapes in the comedy I Love You Phillip Morris. Read reviews from Brian Orndorf and Jason Bailey. Also in theaters: Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth learn to control their tongues in The King's Speech. Tony Jaa returns to snap limbs in Ong Bak 3. Paul Giamatti learns all about Barney's Version. Santa Claus is revealed to be a horrible creature in the Finnish comedy Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Small town blues hit Meskada. And Ryan Gosling stalks Kirsten Dunst in the mystery All Good Things. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Faster, Love and Other Drugs, Burlesque, Tangled, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Unstoppable, Outside the Law, and 127 Hours. 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: Marcus Welby, M.D. Season Two - interesting, frequently quite moving, and never sensationalistic, this is another knock-out season; Parks & Recreation: Season Two - a smart, sharp, consistently funny show--one of the best comedies on television; and Deadliest Catch: Season Six - a tough, on-edge season. Other shows recently reviewed include:  ESPN Films 30 for 30 Gift Set Collection, Volume 1, The Venture Bros: Season 4, Vol. 1, and CSI: NY - The Sixth 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 and articles including: Mutiny on the Bounty - Turner and Warner Home Video have restored the Oscar-winning historical adventure, thanks to the recently rediscovered original negative! The movie is better than ever in a beautiful new Blu-ray transfer; Victory At Sea - The history-making TV docu series returns to DVD in a bargain priced 2-disc set ... yes, that's almost thirteen hours of video on just two discs. Read the verdict and .... well, you decide whether or not it's a deal; and The Cyclops - Bert I. Gordon's maladroit monster movie gets a glowing review. Why? It's a perfect late-'50s no-budget monster romp that delivers the goods - a genuinely scary title character. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Some excellent titles have been announced recently including: Car 54 Where Are You? Season 1 on DVD [clip from an episode] - newly remastered from the only known set of 35 mm fine grain prints, it's the first time this hilarious show has been available on DVD. It streets on 2/22/11; The Steig Larsson Trilogy on DVD and Blu-ray - Get all three popular films, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, in one nice set. It will arrive on 1/25/11; and An Affair to Remember on Blu-ray - Leo McCarey directed Cary Grant in this touching romance film that is still moving today. Check it out on 2/1/11. Keep track of all the upcoming releases with the DVDTalk Release List.

This week several high profile movies are coming out, including a few that shouldn't be missed: The Sorcerer's Apprentice [Blu-ray review] - Disney updates and expands one of it's classic stories with this big budget Jerry Bruckheimer film; The Twilight Saga: Eclipse [Blu-ray review]- the next installment of the popular series arrives just in time for holiday gift giving; and Fantasia / Fantasia 2000 - both Disney films get the Blu-ray treatment and the set includes the Academy Award nominated short Destino. Other new releases of note include:  Liverpool [DVD review], Knight and Day [DVD review], and Iron Man: Extremis [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.

Some cool discs have been reviewed over the past week. Check out these recent entries: Metalocalypse: Season Three - much funnier than a show with this supposedly limited concept has any right to be; The Lottery - This documentary that follows four Harlem children hoping to gain admittance to a local charter school is a must-watch, especially for parents; and Brain Dead - a film that hearkens back to the heyday of '80s horror. Other recent reviews include: 1981, RoboGeisha, and iCarly: iSpace Out.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

Christmas is coming early for fans of early cinema. Flicker Alley has a wonderful set of early Charlie Chaplin shorts, Criterion has released Modern Times, and the restored Metropolis is available on DVD and Blu-ray. Not only that, but there's an interesting documentary on actor John Cazale, the second movie adapted from Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy hits store shelves, and Lars von Trier's Antichrist has also been released. Read all about these art house releases and many more in this month's Talking Out of Frame.

Following up on the massive success of Assassin's Creed II, Ubisoft released a followup in their stealth combat series last week. Check out our review of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood for the Xbox 360. Also on the Xbox 360, we checked out Namco's gory action title Splatterhouse, the Kinect enabled snowboarding title Adrenalin Misfits from Konami and the Xbox Live arcade game Pac-Man Championship Edition DX. We also got a second opinion on Activision's Call of Duty Black Ops in our PS3 review of the game. In the portable space, we checked out Star Wars Arcade: Falcon Gunner for the iPhone and Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction for the PSP. As always, our entire collection of video game reviews can be found here. Share your thoughts on this week's releases on the Video Game Talk forum.

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