Paul Rudd stars in Our Idiot Brother a likeable film that's not nearly as dumb as it appears. Read reviews by Jason Bailey and Jamie S. Rich Craig Gillespie revamps a 1985 horror classic in Fright Night. Read reviews from Jason Bailey and Tyler Foster. Formula One racing star Ayrton Senna gets his own biopic in Senna. And John Michael McDonagh (brother of In Bruges writer/director Martin McDonagh) releases his freshman picture, The Guard. Late breaking reviews: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and Colombiana. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Final Destination 5, The Change-Up, 30 Minutes or Less, and The Help. 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: Parenthood: Season 2 - a wonderful show, definitely worth a look; Young Justice - Season One, Volume One - a fun superhero cartoon with a strong hook, great animation, and good characters; and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - a fun seventies horror picture with some memorable moments, great camerawork and a genuinely surprising finale. Other shows recently reviewed include:  Omnibus: American Profiles, Doctor Who: The Sun Makers, and UFC: Ultimate Royce Gracie.  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: The Atomic City - Rotten commie spies kidnap the son of a top nuclear physicist and demand bomb plans as a ransom. Gene Barry, Nancy Gates and Lee Aaker star in an excellent spy chase; High and Low - Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai return in one of Akira Kurosawa's best, a hypertense police thriller about the search for a ruthless kidnapper; and The Breaking Point - A top noir title that could be the watershed between the expressionist '40s and the semi-docu '50s. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

There are some new titles coming out that might make it worth a trip to the video store this week. Check out these recent releases: Trollhunter [Blu-ray review] - this is a fun, imaginative, and definitely unique found-footage-monster-doc; Win Win [DVD review]- a gentle examination of relationships being forged by real people who happen to talk the way real people talk; and Rounders [Blu-ray review] - a relentlessly entertaining picture, snappy and fast-paced and a real pleasure to watch. Other reviews of note include: Secret Sunshine: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray review], Swingers [Blu-ray review], and Poetry [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.

Some cool discs have been reviewed over the past week. Check out these recent entries: Top Gun - Tom Cruise provides the audience with enough smiles to make the women swoon and the men envious; Mars Needs Moms - a surprisingly heartfelt and moving film that is much better than advertised; and The Name of the Rose - a fully gripping medieval whodunit. Other recent reviews include: The Spy Kids trilogy on Blu-ray - Spy Kids, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, and Spy Kids 3: Game Over.  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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