Let's see. DVD Empire lists as the major new DVD releases of the week - The Ruins, Superhero Movie, and Stop Loss. Ouch. Can we just come back next week? Of course not. DVD is an addiction, not a choice. There are some of you out there who need to rent or buy something new every week and Play All has what you need. We'll dig deeper to give you the DVD fix that you're craving. And this week is no different. Batman, Robin, Bill Bellamy, AND Master P? Try that "New Releases" shelf. Some weeks you have to hit Play All. You have no other choice.

The Batman: Season Five
Studio: Warner Brothers
Starring: Rino Romano, Alastair Duncan, Danielle Judovits, Mitch Pileggi, and Evan Sabara
Features: None

Think it's a coincidence that Gotham Knight, a gorgeous gift set of Batman Begins, and the final season of Kids WB's The Batman hit stores just ten days before Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight takes over your summer? We don't either. In fact, we're usually using Play All to tout smaller titles that might have fallen under your radar. There's nothing small about The Batman. But it probably won't make the headlines like Gotham Knight or the deafening buzz surrounding The Dark Knight, so there's a chance you won't notice that the fifth and final season of one of your favorite '00s cartoons is on the market. The Batman was a good show with the potential to be great, but it never quite elevated itself to that level. Having said that, it also never really sagged in quality. If you've enjoyed those first four seasons on your shelf, I don't understand why you wouldn't complete the collection. In the final season, you'll get some action with Superman, Lex Luthor, Green Arrow, Firefly, Blaze, The Flash, Mirror Master, The Joker, The Penguin, Green Lantern, Sinestro, Nightwing, Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, Hawkman, Black Mask, and Martian Manhunter. What more could you POSSIBLY be looking for?

Blood Brothers
Studio: First Look Home Entertainment
Starring: Liu Ye, Lulu Li, Shu Qi, Daniel Wu, Chang Chen, Sun Honglei, and Tony Lang
Features: Previews

Some weeks it's all about TV shows and Asian imports. Even Play All has its weaknesses. One of the films in the latter category this week is Alexi Tan's Blood Brothers, an action film notoriously produced by John Woo and Terence Chang. But Blood Brothers is no Dragon Dynasty knock-off or derivative piece of J-horror. The film actually has a pretty high reputation overseas, even being chosen to close the 64th Venice Film Festival last September. I've said it before and will clearly have to say it again - How can a film that was good enough to be the closing night of a major international film festival not even merit a limited stateside release? Don't we deserve at least the chance to see any movie that esteemed on the big screen? We get Meet Dave but not a closer from the Venice Film Festival? Sigh. Anyway, Blood Brothers is a gang epic about three friends in 1930s Shanghai who move from the countryside to work with the criminal underground. A love triangle and, knowing John Woo, some pretty intense shooting commences. The action choreography was even helmed by Philip Kwok, who did the same for the Woo classic, Hard Boiled. Fans of Woo and Asian action in general should check it out.

Fastlane: The Complete Series
Studio: Warner Brothers
Starring: Peter Facinelli, Bill Bellamy, and Tiffani Thiessen
Features: Unaired and Extended Scenes from the Pilot, Hot Stuff: Inside the Candy Store - Evolution of a Series, Stunning Rides: Muscle Machines and Kit Cars, Smoking Stars: The Cast, Sizzling Action: Stunts and Chases, Outtakes and Bloopers

Now this is a weird release. Let's be honest - we've reached something of a plateau in 'TV on DVD'. Every week we get a new season of a franchise that has already started its DVD collection (The Batman, Teen Titans) and then a few times a year we get a wave of recent seasons like we'll see in August and September for the most recent outings of shows like Prison Break and Heroes. It's rare to find something new pulled from the vault. That sucker's getting pretty empty. Well, someone must have overlooked Fastlane because it's taken six years for this cult hit to crawl out of the dustbin of TV history and on to DVD and, surprisingly, it's being treated even better than a lot of those shows that are still on the air. Fastlane is an incredibly guilty pleasure from McG, the man who gave us the film version of Charlie's Angels and will soon tackle The Terminator franchise. It's an odd and yet sometimes riveting show that feels more like syndicated escapism than big network product. The fact that it survived 22 episodes is one of the most startling things about it, but WB treats the show well, giving it quality video and audio transfers along with featurettes and deleted scenes. Why they couldn't track down star Peter Facinelli to do a commentary track is the only mystery. Scratch another recent one-season wonder off the list of shows not on DVD. Now if we can only get to Andy Richter Controls The Universe.

Teen Titans: Season Five
Studio: Warner Brothers
Starring: Hynden Walch, Scott Menville, Tara Strong, Khary Payton, and Greg Cipes
Features: None

I used to love Teen Titans, but I'll admit that five seasons of the pint-sized superheroes are a bit much. If you're a casual fan, one or two seasons of the kids with the catchiest theme song in cartoon history will probably be enough, but completists will be happy to know that the fifth and final season hits DVD this week. At its best, Teen Titans is one of the quickest 22-minutes in cartoon-dom, a fast-paced ride for kids and adults. Even if the creative team wasn't finding "its best" as often in the later seasons as they did in the early ones, the show definitely still had its moments. Guest characters that you'll find in the final season of Teen Titans include Elastigirl, Negative Man, Robotman, an Aqualad that sounds like Wil Wheaton (!!!), Mas Y Menos, Control Freak, Madame Rouge, Kid Flash, Red X, Gizmo, and, in the final episode, Slade.

Toxic
Studio: Weinstein Company
Starring: Dominique Swain, Corey Large, Charity Shea, Master P, Danny Trejo, Costas Mandylor, Bai Ling, Tom Sizemore, and Paul Johansson
Features: None

Does any cast SCREAM straight-to-DVD like that one? Master P, Bai Ling, AND Tom Sizemore? Is that Danny Trejo? AND Dominique Swain? Are they serious? And yet, I was kind of excited to open Toxic. I see a lot of pretentious movies (is there any other kind lately?) and I had a feeling that Toxic wouldn't aspire to anything more than an action-driven guilty pleasure. The tagline for Alan Pao's action flick is "One girl...One curse...Seventeen bodies." Sign me up. When I read comparisons to Identity, the John Cusack mind-bender, I was even more excited at the potential for straight-to-DVD action hilarity. It turns out that Toxic is kind of a serial killer movie, closer to Saw than Steven Seagal's oeuvre. It's about the sleaze of society - a crime boss, bartender, two hitmen, a prostitute, a nightclub owner, and a psychic - who all cross paths with an escaped mental patient. Let the intellectuals dissect the first season of Mad Men or the issues in Stop Loss and you, of course, don't want to sink to the level of Superhero Movie even if you're desperate for an alternative. There aren't a lot of choices out there for your action fix. You could do worse than Toxic.