More TV shows have made their way on to DVD and Blu-ray, and DVD Talk has got them covered. Check out our reviews of the newest TV releases including: Cowboy Bebop: The Complete Series - It has everything you could possibly want in a show: amazing storytelling, a breathtaking soundtrack, layered, nuanced and well developed characters, and an extremely satisfying conclusion; Broad City: Season 1 - for those who jive with modern comedies which embraces oddballs, cartoon logic, and R-rated subjects, this is another hilarious success from Comedy Central; and The Facts Of Life: The Complete Series - if you have good memories of the show, it's fun to revisit and compare nostalgia with reality, and the quality and bonus materials make it worth checking out as well. Other shows recently reviewed include:  The Exes: The Complete First and Second Seasons, Dragon Ball Z: Season 9, and Legend of Korra: Book Three - Change.  Want more?  Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVD Talk database.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including: The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin's supermarket blockbuster becomes the lavishly filmed, embarrassingly tacky thriller in which Gregory Peck's aged Dr. Mengele seeks a fourth Reich by cloning a new Adolf Hitler; Kinoshita and World War II - five Japanese features lucky to have survived -- dramas made during the war and supervised by Japan's military censors. Here finally is the 'morale building' Tojo propaganda to compare to Hollywood's prolific WW2 output; and The Package - A smart, well-made action-suspense-political intrigue thriller with plenty of star appeal: Gene Hackman's patriotic sergeant is framed for murder in a plot to assassinate important heads of state. 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: Boyhood [review] - Richard Linklater finally brings his ambitious decade-spanning project to a close and it proves to be stronger achievement than the raw impressiveness of its gimmick; Get On Up [review] - a good retelling of James Brown's life and the amount of bonus material is better than expected; and The Guest [review] - a genre exercise that's as straight and stripped as they come, but it's brimming with enough style, tension, mood, and technical creativity to successfully cover for any lack of originality. Other reviews of note include: Looking: Season 1 [review], Candyman: Farewell To The Flesh [review], and Horns [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 great DVD and Blu-ray reviews have been added to the the DVD Talk Review Database recently including: Running on Empty - this critically acclaimed film features a number of fantastic performances, great characters, and a deceptively simple story that yields complex results; Coherence - a movie a complicated and scientific story line that is brought to life by the use of improv, allowing for the characters to be developed organically while the plot twists around them; and The Missouri Breaks - Arthur Penn's film, famously pairing for the first and last time Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson, is mostly intelligent and understated - though it's also wounded by Brando's hammy performance. Other recent reviews include: Abuse of Weakness, Trip to Italy, and The Public Defender.  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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