Japan embraces George Romero's gooey living-dead legacy with Junk. Speaking of the big guy, fans get their best look yet at The Crazies. Genre giant David F. Friedman logs the year's first must-hear commentary with Goldilocks and the Three Bares. B-siren Misty Mundae goes Hollywood dressed as (surprise!) a schoolgirl in Dr. Jekyll & Mistress Hyde. Vanessa Angel unleashes her prehistoric meow-meow in Sabretooth. Plus, reality TV's "Cheaters" guts its host, Serial Killer Box Set giveaway winners, responses to reader emails and Curse of the Fly joins CineSchlock-O-Rama's Most Wanted.

This week in The Aisle View, it's Pixar Animation Studio's latest release: Finding Nemo. Read the full review from critic Megan Denny to find out why the story of a clownfish looking for his son is one of the best films this year. Also be sure to check out This week in The Aisle View's take on The Italian Job, Bruce Almighty, Down With Love and A Mighty Wind. Also be sure to Sign up to get The Aisle View delivered Free to your e-mail box each week as soon as it is published!

Warner Bros. Home Video has announced Casablanca - Special Edition August 5, 2003. As with Citizen Kane and Singin' in the Rain , Warner Bros. is working their restoration magic on a all new 2-disc set featuring a new digital transfer of the film. In addition Casablanca - Special Edition will feature: 2 audio commentaries - one with Roger Ebert and the other with Rudy Behlmer a film historian, 10 minutes of deleted scenes and outtakes, the featurette 'The Children Remember' - interviews with Bogart's son and Ingrid Bergman's daughter, the documentary 'You Must Remember This: The Making of Casablanca', 'Bacall on Bogart' and 'Screen Guild Players Radio Production' with outtakes from scoring sessions. Pre-Order Casablanca - Special Edition Now

New Line Home Video has announced the DVD release for the reality tv-gone theatrical release The Real Cancun. A disaster at the box office The Real Cancun will most likely find its home where reality tv does best.... on TV! Set for release on July 1st The Real Cancun will feature a widescreen (1.78:1) version of the film with 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound, 2.0 Stereo Surround Sound along with the theatrical trailer and television spots. You can Pre-order The Real Cancun at Amazon.com or DVDEmpire.

This week the DVD Savant takes a look at Anchor Bay's 2-disc set of Dead of Night and The Queen of Spades, an amazing duo of Horror/fantasy pictures from the 'refined' era of British production. Not far behind is Criterion's snappy release of the rare French thriller Quai des Orfèvres. Henri-Georges Clouzot tones down his signature acid tone for this kinder, gentler tale of infidelity, murder and forbidden lust. Fox's Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison arrives on the coat-tails of their Memorial Day war movies, but is a welcome addition. HVe's Louisiana Story is an impeccable presentation of one of Robert Flaherty's last semi-docu studies of humans living under primitive conditions. And Facets Video presents a Lars von Trier television version of Euripides' Medea. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Columbia Tri-Star has announced the next batch of titles in their popular 'Superbit' line of DVDs. Superbits are crafted with the top focus being the picture and sound quality at the expense of extras or special features, also of note is the fact that Superbits feature DTS audio in addition to Dolby Digital Audio. The next wave of Superbit titles will be released on August 8th and include Starship Troopers , John Carpenter's Vampires, Jet Li: The One and The Quick and the Dead. DVD Talk has a ton of Superbit DVD Reviews so if you're interested in Superbit be sure to check them out.

In great anticipation of this summer's blockbuster release of Ang Lee's The Hulk we've got a special DVD giveaway for The Incredible Hulk - Original Television Premiere. See how The Hulk TV series began and get psyched for his big screen debut. The Incredible Hulk DVD features: Both the Pilot Episode and The episode 'Married', an Introduction by Lou Ferrigno, The Making of The Incredible Hulk, The Incredible Hulk: Original Television Premiere and a FREE Ticket to see The Hulk in Theaters! Enter Now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of the The Incredible Hulk DVD

An interesting mix of movies coming to DVD this week including: the Academy Award Winning The Pianist an extremely touching films, Talk to Her Pedro Almodovar's extremely well written film , PBS's Manor House [Review] a reality TV series with a historical twist that is simply fantastic, Love Liza [Review] a supremely subtle performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman in a very heavy film, The Recruit [Review] watch it for another solid performance by Colin Farrell, Dead or Alive Director's Cut [Review] Takashi Miike's explosive ultra-violent action flick, The Criterion Collection release of Throne of Blood [Review] Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of Macbeth, and Good Burger while not a Criterion edition, it's still is a DVD Talk Favorite.

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