This week Entertainment One invites you to boldly go where only six actors have gone before with The Captains - A Film by William Shatner (watch trailer). Since first soaring onto television screens in the 1960s, Star Trek has become one of the most beloved franchises of all time. Now, the original Captain Kirk, William Shatner, travels around the globe to interview the elite group of actors (Chris Pine, Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew and Scott Bakula) who have portrayed the role of Starship Captain, giving fans an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the pop culture phenomenon as well as the men and women who made it so. Enter now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of The Captains - A Film by William Shatner on DVD!

This week in theaters, Elizabeth Olsen breaks away from a dangerous cult in the haunting festival hit Martha Marcy May Marlene. Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain play a couple torn apart by troubling visions in Take Shelter. And the director of Who Killed the Electric Car returns with the documentary follow-up Revenge of the Electric Car. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Footloose, The Thing, Texas Killing Fields, The Skin I Live In, Bombay Beach, The Ides of March, Real Steel, and The Swell Season. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

After 15 years working in TV, radio and film, British writer director Joe Cornish has finally become an overnight sensation, thanks to his cult hit sci-fi flick Attack the Block, which chronicles the battle between a gang of inner-city London street toughs and the vicious aliens who crash-land in their neighborhood one night. Up next for Cornish is the release of the film on DVD and Blu-Ray (arriving October 25th), the high-profile new Tintin animated movie, which he did a re-write on with pal Edgar Wright, and a co-writing gig with Wright on his highly-anticipated Ant-Man feature film. But first, he took a moment to sit down with DVDTalk's Francis Rizzo III to talk about aliens, anti-heroes and audio commentaries. Check out everything they talked about in this latest DVDTalk Interview.

Interested in the latest TV on DVD reviews? DVD Talk has you covered! This week's notable entries include: Raising Hope: The Complete First Season - creator Greg Garcia's (My Name Is Earl) latest show (My Name Is Earl)is worthy enough to laugh violently while marveling at the smaller moments; The League: The Complete Season Two - After a surprisingly solid first season, the show comes up with one of the best second seasons in sitcom history; and Jem and the Holograms: The Truly Outrageous Complete Series - is this is still a great show... from its initial incarnation up and through its corporate mandated changes, it found a way to match music to message without every once skimping on character or narrative. Other shows recently reviewed include:  Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 V.1, Blue Bloods: The First Season, and The Phantom of Hollywood.  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: Attack the Block - Finally, a FUN sci-fi monster show that gives us a break from cookie cutter stupidity and / or social pretension. A gang of teens and pre-teen London punks battle for their lives against a horde of ferocious alien monsters. Besides some real excitement and scary thrills, the whole enterprise is funnier than Hell; The Bad Seed - Child star Patty McCormack is back, slaying foolish adults left and right while asking for baskets of kisses and hugs; and Orpheus - Jean Cocteau defines the Poet's relationship with Death in this amusing, mysterious and elegantly filmed transposition of Greek Myth, one of the greatest fantasies ever filmed. 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: Willy Wonka & Chocolate Factory: 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition [Blu-ray review] - a timeless classic - Wilder's performance is too good to ever have an expiration date and this release is the most complete version to date, especially with the book included; Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides [Blu-ray review] - the best Pirates film since the first; and Red State [DVD review] - Kevin Smith has done an impressive job of delivering a film that is exciting and tense. Other reviews of note include Page One: Inside The New York Times [Blu-ray review], Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest [Blu-ray review, a second Blu-ray review], and The Last Circus [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.

Our reviewers have been busy this week, filling the DVD Talk Review Database more great entries. Some new reviews of note include: Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938 - The National Film Preservation Foundation has created another must-buy collection that easily earns DVDTalk's highest recommendation; Harakiri - Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 film is a masterpiece of Japanese cinema; and Nothing Personal - an interesting and moving film. Other recent reviews include: Buster Keaton - Short Films Collection: 1920-1923; Lunopolis, and Dirty Like an Angel (Sale comme un ange).  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

The 49th annual New York Film Festival wrapped up last night, and DVD Talk's own Jason Bailey has put together a wrap-up report of some of the highlights of the fest. Read it here, and be sure to check out our reviews from the last week of the festival, including: George Clooney in The Descendants, the latest comedy/drama from acclaimed director Alexander Payne; Michelle Williams slipping into the skin of an icon in My Week with Marilyn, and the wickedly funny documentary portrait of a B-movie legend, Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel.

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