Welcome to the new year! 2010 was a blast and there was tons of fantastic anime that hit Japanese airwaves and US DVD shelves. 2011 promises to be a good year as well. Some great stuff pass through our hands this month such as Black Butler, another installment of Fullmetal Alchemist, and Kaleido Star. There was also some not-so-great stuff, but that's the same every month it seems. This time around we also have a figure review from Dance in the Vampire Bund courtesy of folks at Kotobukiya, and there's a selection of manga reviews here as well! As always WTK provides some great bargains for all you thrifty otaku. Read about all this and meet the new addition to our panel, Neil, in this month's Anime Talk!

Natalie Portman and Aston Kutcher go strictly for sex in Ivan Reitman's No Strings Attached. Read reviews from Brian Orndorf, Jason Bailey, and Tyler Foster. Natalie Portman returns to experience life as The Other Woman. And Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris walk the Earth in Peter Weir's The Way Back. Also in theaters: Paz Vega, Zoe Saldana, and Rosamund Pike experience trauma and irony in the anthology film Burning Palms. And a 1957 Lionel Rogosin picture returns to screens in On the Bowery. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: The Green Hornet, The Dilemma, Every Day, Season of the Witch, Country Strong, Barney's Version, TRON: Legacy, True Grit, Little Fockers, The Fighter, The King's Speech, Black Swan, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

More TV shows have made their way on to DVD, and DVD Talk has got them covered. Check out our reviews of the newest TV releases including: Rumpole of the Bailey: The Complete Series - this 14 season show is astonishingly consistent...and consistently hilarious; Medium: The Sixth Season - a bright light in an otherwise (mostly) dim network lineup; and Cheyenne - Season 2: Parts One and Two - solid, entertaining Western fare, on a par with the best Western anthology series of the 1950s. Other shows recently reviewed include:  All in the Family: The Complete Eighth Season, United States of Tara: The Second Season, and Luther: Series One.  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: Stone - Up for parole, crafty prisoner Edward Norton games the system by instructing his promiscuous wife Milla Jovovich to seduce his parole officer, Robert De Niro. Fine performances, especially from De Niro; Army of Crime - The true story of the "Manouchian Cell", a fierce French resistance group dedicated to the destruction of the German occupiers of Paris. These immigrants, Communists and fugitive Jews bombed and murdered the enemy undetected ... until they were betrayed; and The Window - Young Bobby Driscoll has told too many tall tales, and now his parents won't believe him when he sees his neigbors murder a man in their apartment upstairs. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Another banner week for DVDs with the studios releasing some great films and boxed sets such as: Justified: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray review] - one of the most entertaining television shows currently running; Lebanon [Blu-ray review, DVD review]- a powerful, sincere anti-war statement that makes for disturbing, essential cinema; and Merlin: The Complete Second Season [DVD review] - the popular BBC show features intriguing characters and fun stories. Other reviews of note include: Roger Corman's Sci-Fi Classics [DVD review], Animal Kingdom [Blu-ray review], and Buried [Blu-ray review].  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

Check out the latest DVD reviews that have been entered into the DVD Talk Review Database including: Easy A - a sharply-written little tack of a teenage comedy; Robinson Crusoe on Mars - a wonderful, even magical movie; and Exit through the Gift Shop - one of 2010's best films - it is subtle, layered, complicated, and hilarious. Other recent reviews include: Army of Shadows, Backdraft (Blu-ray), and Dogtooth.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

A new year has begun - and a new decade, so it's time for a new Talking Out of Frame, DVDTalk's monthly look at the arthouse movies on DVD and Blu-ray. This time around we look at Disney's classic Fantasia as well as the updated Fantasia 2000 on Blu-ray, Criterion's collection America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, and The Quintessential Guy Maddin! a collection of five features and two shorts from the idiosyncratic director. Check out all this and much more in this month's Talking Out of Frame.

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