This week in theaters, Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law return to the roles of Holmes and Watson in the high-spirited Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the entire IMF agency are disavowed by the U.S. government in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. Read reviews by Jamie S. Rich and Jason Bailey. And Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, and John C. Reilly team for Roman Polanski's dark comedy of manners, Carnage. Also in theaters: "King of the Bs" Roger Corman is profiled in the entertaining Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, and the fall of Big Tobacco is chronicled in the documentary Addiction Incorporated. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Young Adult, New Year's Eve, We Need To Talk About Kevin, I Melt With You, Shame, Melancholia, The Muppets, Hugo, The Twilight Saga-Breaking Dawn: Part 1, A Dangerous Method, My Week with Marilyn, and The Descendants. 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: Damages: The Complete Third Season - The good, the bad and the angry...all one and the same in this fun show; American Restoration - Volume 1 - a fun and informative series, especially for those with an interest in Americana and pop culture artifacts; and Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time - for Stone Cold fans, this is a mandatory purchase for the epic main feature alone. Other shows recently reviewed include:  Doctor Who: Colony in Space, Perry Mason - Season 6, Volume 2, and Babar and Father Christmas.  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 Rocketeer - Air racer Cliff Secord takes to the skies in a nifty rocket pack, to save his girls from gangsters, Nazi agents, and oveager FBI guys; The Help - The remarkable surprise summer hit is an absorbing, startling and frequently hilarious drama about a Southern women who decides to write a book about the true lives of black maids -- an effort pointedly outlawed in Mississippi; and Welcome to L.A. - Alan Rudolph comes forward with the prime candidate for laid-back hipster decadence in the City of the Angelsc. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

This week several great movies are coming out, including a few that shouldn't be missed: Rise of the Planet of the Apes [DVD review] - The film manages to succeed in achieving an impossible hat-trick of being not only a successful reboot of the legendary franchise, but also acting as a simultaneous prequel and standalone film; Meet Me in St. Louis [Blu-ray review] - a wonderful-looking and -sounding picture, but it has never looked or sounded as wonderful as it does on this beautifully done new Blu-ray release; and Heavenly Creatures [Blu-ray review] - arguably director Peter Jackson's most interesting (and in many ways his most creative) film. Other reviews of note include: Velvet Goldmine [Blu-ray review], Detective Dee & The Mystery of the Phantom Flame [Blu-ray review], and 99 And 44/100% Dead / The Nickel Ride [DVD 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.

This week the DVD Talk Review Database has some great new entries, including a few discs you may have overlooked. Recent DVD reviews include: 12 Angry Men: The Criterion Collection - Sidney Lumet's cinematic interpretation of Reginald Rose's script is a scintillating drama; Farewell to Arms - a must-see specimen of American film from right after talkies took over; and Another Earth - a uniquely haunting drama with science fiction elements running through its veins. Other recent reviews include: Lost Horizon; Point Blank, and Mahler: Symphony 2.  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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