Interested in the latest TV on DVD reviews? DVD Talk has you covered! This week's notable entries include:: Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season - with a sprawling cast of characters, a rich and constantly evolving mythology to mine, and an eagerness to experiment with everything from its visual style to the length of its stories, this show is in the running as the most daring and most inventive series on television, animated or otherwise; Nobunagun: The Complete Series - simply a nonstop balls-to-the-wall action thrill ride from start to finish; and Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued - an unusual project, in which five singer-songwriters with five distinct personalities must figure out how to work with not only each other but also their absent lyrical collaborator, Bob Dylan. 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: Places in the Heart - writer-director Robert Benton tells a personal story from his Texas hometown, of Depression-era hard times; Pit Stop - here we have Jack Hill's best movie in a perfect presentation. The story of a stock car figure-8 racer's violent career transcends its exploitation genre to make a bigger statement about the drive to win and the price of competition; and Thunder Road - this is the touchstone film for the hipster lone-wolf existential road film... Robert Mitchum is as close as the movies ever came to Jack Kerouac. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Another banner week for DVDs with the studios releasing some great films and boxed sets such as: The Last Survivors [review] - With a staggering amount of talent on both sides of the camera and a canny ability to turn its limited resources into an asset, this movie's haunting, engaging vision of a desolate future demands to be seen; Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead [review] - a breath of fresh air in the oversaturated and played out zombie movie genre... it's fast paced, effectively gory, exciting to watch and a whole lot of fun; and The Salvation [review] - fans of westerns and newcomers alike can find both entertainment and quality here in a film that is at once like so many others and able to stand completely on its own. Other reviews of note include: Free Willy [review], Storm Fear [review], and Every Secret Thing [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 reviews include: The Killers (1946 and 1964) - The Criterion Collection - this Blu-ray set is an impressive HD update to the Criterion Collection's DVD release and both films are excellent in their own right, with notable differences that make each an exciting experience; Big in Japan - indie, quirky, off-beat, musical, very very strange, this half-realism, half-fantasy film about a rock band's tour of Japan is an honest portrayal of the American rock dream; and Ned Kelly - a sweaty, dirty, and fun revisionist western starring Mick Jagger with songs written by Shel Silverstein and sung by Waylon Jennings. Other recent reviews include: Face to Face, A Month in the Country, and The Dead Lands.  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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