The 49th annual New York Film Festival begins tonight, and DVD Talk's own Jason Bailey is sampling from the festival's wide slate of exciting new narrative features, documentaries, and Oscar hopefuls. The opening night selection is Roman Polanski's star-studded film adaptation of the Broadway hit Carnage, a dark comedy of manners featuring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly, and Christoph Waltz. Also screening in the coming days: Martin Scoresese's masterful two-part documentary on "the quiet Beatle," George Harrison: Living in the Material World; Asghar Farhadi's fascinatingly complex Iranian morality play, A Separation; and Stefano Savona's ground-level view of the Egyptian revolution, Tahrir. You can keep track of Jason's NYFF progress via Twitter, and you can read his festival reviews in our Theatrical Reviews section.

This week in theaters, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen team for 50/50, a serious-minded comedy about cancer. Read reviews by Jamie S. Rich and Jason Bailey. Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, and Naomi Watts slum it in the mediocre haunted house tale Dream House. And a pair of good ol' boys find themselves elbow-deep in blood and gore in the horror/comedy Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil. Read reviews by Jason Bailey and Tyler Foster. Also in theaters: Muckracking British documentarian Nick Broomfield takes on the former Alaska governor in Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, and a controversial imprisonment and interrogation is examined in the documentary You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Moneyball, Killer Elite, Machine Gun Preacher, Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, Puncture, Drive, Straw Dogs, The Lion King 3D, I Don't Know How She Does It, Restless, 3, Stay Cool, and Red State. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

Some great TV shows have made their way onto DVD this week including: Supernatural: Season 6 - a wildly uneven run of episodes but there are still some really solid episodes served up this year, and the high points are just about as strong as anything the show has ever hammered out; The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Fourth Season - there are a lot of laughs in this season and the show is still worth watching; and Mike Hammer - The Complete Series - a pretty good series made even better by its irreplaceable star, Darren McGavin. Other shows recently reviewed include:  Judge John Deed - Season Four, American Experience: Houdini, and The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel.  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: Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - Fun, friends and hair-raising adventure follow the lovable Pee-Wee Herman as he journeys to The Alamo to recover his lost bicycle; Dumbo - Walt's proud pachyderm pilot is back again for a 70th Anniversary Edition, looking terrific in Blu-ray as he soars above his circus home; and Obsession - Brian De Palma goes Vertigo-nuts all over this delirious, operatic mystery about a deranged real estate developer (?), his lost wife, and an uncanny doppelgänger lover. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Consider yourself a genre junkie and looking for a community of like-minded horror fans to converse with this October? Well look no further than The 7th Annual October Horror Movie Challenge! Whether you’re an aficionado, a novice or simply harbor a morbid curiosity, this is the destination for watching, sharing, discovering and discussing all things horror. And don't be put off by the 100 Movies. 31 Days. slogan, it extends far beyond watching unhealthy amounts of macabre cinema. Check out the daily pick in our 31 Film Subset list with next day discussion, take a stab at the Theme Nights list for countless sub-genre ideas, dare to complete The Checklist, join our brand new Facebook and Google+ pages and possibly even win a prize courtesy of HamiltonBook.com, Something Weird and Full Moon! Everything's covered -- from the Academy Award-winning The Exorcist to the IMDB Bottom 100 rated and MST3K fodder Hobgoblins plus everything in-between. So Join Us and keep telling yourself ...it's only a movie!

There are a few new releases this week that you won't want to miss. Check out these hot titles: Ben-Hur [Blu-ray review] - thanks to Warner's painstaking frame-by-frame restoration this is the one of the very BEST looking catalogue titles ever released on Blu-ray; Battling Butler / Go West [Blu-ray review] - these two films look and sound terrific as they treat us to yet more of Keaton's cool genius; and Good Neighbors [Blu-ray review] - a brilliant film that shrugs off virtually every last one of the usual thriller conventions, choosing instead to draw more deeply from classic noir. And since Halloween is just around the corner, check out these highly recommended horror-related films: Godfather of Gore: The Herschell Gordon Lewis Documentary [DVD review], Basket Case [Blu-ray], and The Blood Trilogy [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.

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Check out the latest DVD reviews that have been entered into the DVD Talk Review Database including: X-Men: First Class - first-class entertainment (pardon the pun); Sanctuary: The Complete Third Season - this season is where the show really hits its stride... the authors have found a voice for the program and have a much better understanding of what works and what doesn't; and Everything Must Go - a bittersweet tale about a flawed individual who must rebuild himself after being faced with the wreckage of his life. Other recent reviews include: Circo; My Life as a Dog: The Criterion Collection, and Towncraft Box Set.  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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