Transforming 1947 Los Angeles into video game form, Rockstar's latest puts you into the shoes of Cole Phelps, a police officer rising through the ranks of the LAPD. Check out our full review of L.A. Noire released for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Also on the XBox 360, we checked out DLC pack Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts, racing game MX vs ATV: Alive and the animated movie game Rio. If you haven't checked it out yet, be sure to also read our review of XBLA shooter Section 8: Prejudice. On the PS3, we took a peek at Portal 2 as well as NASCAR 2011: The Game. Finally on portable systems, check out our reviews of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Shadow Wars for the Nintendo 3DS and two games for the iPhone / iPod Touch; The Heist and World of Goo. 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.

January Jones and Michael Fassbender join the world-famous mutant army in Matthew Vaughn's anticipated prequel X-Men: First Class. Read reviews from Brian Orndorf and Jamie S. Rich. Terrence Malick returns to study the essence of life with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn in The Tree of Life. Read reviews from Brian Orndorf and Casey Burchby. And Woody Allen brings Owen Wilson to France in the comedic fantasy Midnight in Paris. Read reviews from Brian Orndorf and Jamie S. Rich. Also in theaters: German vampires go shopping in We Are the Night. An all-star cast dramatizes the 2008 financial crisis in the Curtis Hanson drama Too Big to Fail. A sensitive teen faces life and love in Submarine. And DVD Talk takes an early look at the alien invasion comedy Attack the Block. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: The Hangover: Part II, Kung Fu Panda 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, True Legend, Bridesmaids, Thor, Priest, Fast Five, 13 Assassins, Something Borrowed, and Jumping the Broom. 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: Father Knows Best: Season Six - the final season of one of television's greatest sitcoms; Home Improvement: 20th Anniversary Complete Collection - this show is still as funny as when it first aired; and Genius of Britain - a great documentary series... the bonus disc is a huge plus and in many ways the superior program. Other shows recently reviewed include:  Yu Yu Hakusho: Season One (Blu-ray), Never Apologize, and Clifford: Best Buddies.  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: A Clockwork Orange - Crystal clear in HD, Stanley Kubrick's studiously ugly look at the future is designed to communicate to a desensitized, brutalized audience. A two-disc 40th Anniversary package with several very good documentaries.; The Manchurian Candidate - From just before JFK and Dallas, John Frankenheimer's paranoid classic seems to predict a decade of assassinations and the climate of conspiracy theories; and Something Wild - A flawless 1980s romp that mixes kinky sex, world music, high school reunion Americana and a crazy detour into a radical, completely unexpected final act. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Some pretty cool discs are being released this week. Check out these new titles: True Blood: The Complete Third Season [Blu-ray review] - this set of shows is even more engrossing than the previous two seasons; American Graffiti (Blu-ray) [Blu-ray review, DVD review] - holds up amazingly well as a funny, smart and well written movie full of great characters, great performances and memorable scenes; and Shanghai Red [DVD review] - a gem of a film that is an experience not to be missed. Other reviews of note include: A Man Called Horse [Blu-ray review], Big Jake [Blu-ray review], and Rio Lobo [Blu-ray 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.

Serve. Protect. Don't Screw Up! This week, Entertainment One invites you to ride along with Missy Peregrym and the cast of Rookie Blue (watch trailer) on DVD and Blu-ray. At the police academy they trained together. Now, they're on the job together. Rookie cop Andy McNally and her fellow new recruits are ready to brave anything, but in the world of big city policing, even the smallest mistake can have life-or-death consequences. This week, Rookie Blue, the addictive ABC series that Entertainment Weekly recommended as "What to Watch," arrives fully loaded on DVD and Blu-ray with exclusive bonus features! Look for last summer's #1 new show in stores and online, and don't miss the season premiere of Rookie Blue Thursday, June 23rd at 10|9c on ABC. Enter now for your chance to win one of five sets of Rookie Blue: The Complete First Season on DVD!

Some cool discs have been reviewed over the past week. Check out these recent entries: Some Like It Hot (Blu-ray) - Billy Wilder crafted one of his finest efforts with this silly and perfectly charming comedy; The Firm (Best Buy Exclusive) - one of the most entertaining thrillers of the 1990's; and How I Ended This Summer - an intelligent, slow-building, and fiercely original thriller. Other recent reviews include: Such Good Friends, The Beautiful Person, and 3 Idiots.  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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