This week in theaters, found footage merges with the superhero origin story in Chronicle; read reviews by Tyler Foster and Jamie S. Rich. Daniel Radcliffe helps reanimate the iconic Hammer studios in the gothic horror film The Woman in Black. And House of the Devil director Ti West returns with another slow-burn horror tale, The Inkeepers. Also this week: Ewan McGregor and Eva Green find love in the midst of a sensory-deprivation outbreak in Perfect Sense, and one of 2011's best films, the Oscar-nominated A Separation, widens its release. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: The Grey, Man on a Ledge, Haywire, Coriolanus, Declaration of War, The Man Nobody Knew, Crazy Horse, The Divide, The Iron Lady, Albert Nobbs, and We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Interested in the latest TV on DVD reviews? DVD Talk has you covered! This week's notable entries include: Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Next Level - these three episodes in HD certainly deliver the goods; Mannix: The Sixth Season - human punching bag Joe Mannix, back in form; and I'm Dickens... He's Fenster - a funny sitcom from 1962 whose admirers included no less an authority on such things than the great Stan Laurel. Other shows recently reviewed include:  Jerry Lewis as The Jazz Singer, Delocated: The Complete Seasons One & Two, and Spin City: The Complete Sixth Season.  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: No Blade of Grass - This gritty, exploitative, unpleasant and at least 50% fully justified post-apocalyptic thriller rubs our noses in the eco-disaster predicted to result from our pollution of the planet -- in 1970; The Tin Drum - This import disc will be a must-see for fans of the film: it's 21-minutes longer than anything we've seen, and the added material really fills out the story; and Picnic - An Americana classic with Kim Novak and William Holden generating some powerful chemistry in William Inge's dissection of lust and pain in the Midwest. 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: The Thing (2011) [Blu-ray review] - this 2011 prequel-slash-remake is a damned good movie in its own right; Drive [Blu-ray review] - a pulsing, suspenseful and layered film; and The English Patient [Blu-ray review] - a modern epic that still plays well after all these years. Other reviews of note include Poldark: The Complete Collection [DVD review], The Mill & The Cross [Blu-ray review], and Night Train Murders [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: Wings - The Academy awarded the very first Best Picture Oscar to this film, and it is now available in high definition; To Kill A Mockingbird: 50th Anniversary Edition - unquestionably a classic; and Agatha Christie Poirot - Series 1 - an unmissible set of mysteries, now thankfully in broadcast order, neatly arranged, and in high-definition to boot. Other recent reviews include: Hell and Back Again; In Time, and Cast Me If You Can.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

The Sundance Film Festival has come to a close, and DVD Talk's own Jason Bailey had the chance to take in 30 of the festival's most exciting independent, foreign, and documentary films. He's now posted a full wrap-up of the festival, with the best (including Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me, the time-travel comedy Safety Not Guaranteed, and the Kubrick-obsessed documentary Room 237), the worst, and the most controversial of the 10-day Park City movie orgy. Check out Bailey's Sundance 2012 wrap-up here, and read his festival reviews in our Theatrical Reviews section.

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