Fire up the McCulloch! Whilst Ms. Jessica jiggles for her life in the dead-on-arrival retread, columnist G. Noel Gross gases up the van for a 30th anniversary Texas Chainsaw Road Trip revisiting original shooting locations such as the cannibal crib of chainsaw two-stepper Leatherface!!! Still hungry? Dig in for reviews of Tobe Hooper's classick chiller and its increasingly, ahem, inbred sequels in The Saw is Family: A Complete DVD Survey! Plus, an exclusive 28 Days Later DVD giveaway, responses to reader emails and The Ultimate Warrior joins CineSchlock-O-Rama's Most Wanted.

In this week's Aisle View, reviewer Megan Denny cheers Bruce Cambell's role as a mummy-battling Elvis in Bubba Ho-Tep, as well as a Thanksgiving-themed indie gem called Aisle View spotlight this week is Runaway Jury the latest adaptation of a John Grisham novel pits Gene Hackman against Dustin Hoffman in a well-constructed film about jury selection and gun-control. Want to get The Aisle View right when it's published? Sign Up to get The Aisle View delivered free to your email box!

Once in a while a film really strikes a cord with the DVD Talk staff and Kill Bill Vol 1 is one of those films. We've got 4 seperate reviews of Kill Bill Vol 1, From Editor Geoffrey Kleinman, Aisle View Columnist Megan Denny, and DVD Talk Reviewers John Wallis and Randy Miller. In addition to the reviews we inspired HKFlix to put together the ultimate Kill Bill study guide that traces MANY of the films references. Finally they put together adeal Exclusively for DVD Talkers: A Shaw Brothers - Gordon Liu Shaw 5-DVD Pack for only $16.95 - that's less than $4 a DVD!!

DVD Talk Reviewer Don Houston has been hard at work covering the complete range of anime DVDs including the Noir Series which Don calls 'One of the best anime series on the market today', Full Metal Panic, Rune Soldier as well as the Rahxephon series. See all our DVD reviews for popular Anime labels ADV, Bandai, Pioneer and Manga. Anime - DVD Talk has it Covered!

Eddie Izzard is probably the most inventive and creative comic out there today. His fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants style of comedy is electric, entertaining and often enlightening. We had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Eddie Izzard at one of the dates for his current sold out Sexie tour just as his latest DVD Circle was about to hit stores. Izzard talks about the role of DVD in his act, the importance of French Subtitles (especially for the naughty bits) and why Christopher Walken is the holy grail of impersonations. Read our complete interview with Eddie Izzard

DVD Talk Reviewer Holly E. Ordway (an avid cycling fan) has taken a look at another batch of new Cycling oriented DVDs from World Cycling Productions. If you're a fan of Cycling you'll want to check out Holly's reviews of: 2003 Tour de France: Lance Armstrong Joins the Greats (12-Hour Collector's Edition) , 2003 Ghent-Wevelgem & Omloop Het Volk, The Sean Kelly Story: An Irish Cycling Legend, 2003 Paris-Roubaix, 2003 Tour of Flanders, 2001 Tour de France: 10-hour Edition and 2003 Liege-Bastogne-Liege & Fleche Wallonne.

This week's Notable DVDs starts off with the MEGA release for The Matrix Reloaded [Review] a DVD certainly worth adding to your collection, the much smaller independent release for Owning Mahowny which an absolutely amazing performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Safety of Objects a fantastic adaptation of the sorrowful and quirky AM Holmes book , Schizopolis - Criterion Steven Soderbergh's insanely strange but fascinating film, Naqoyqatsi the third chapter in the trilogy which includes Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi, Wrong Turn [Review] a guilty pleasure slasher flick that delivers on its promise and Star Trek 5 - The Final Frontier: SE - Paramount continues to give the red carpet treatment to it's Star Trek films.

This week we've got a very special giveaway from Shout Factory! for the magnum opus for Soccer on DVD: History of Soccer -The Beautiful Game. This 7-DVD box set features over 15 hours of content from the first recorded images of Soccer to every single goal from a World Cup Final Game as well as additional bonus footage from interviews with the world's greatest soccer players. If you're a fan of Soccer you won't want to miss this definitive look at the game which has changed the world. Enter Now for your chance to win one of four History of Soccer DVD Box Sets we're giving away this week!

Buena Vista has announced the DVD release for the brilliant sci-fi flick Avalon - from Mamoru Oshii, the acclaimed Director of Ghost in The Shell. Highly sought after as an import DVD Avalon will make its debut in the US on DVD December 16th in anamorphic widescreen with both Dolby Digital English and the Original Polish Audio and feature A Visual FX Documentary and Interview with Director Mamoru Oshii. Avalon is very much in the same vein as Existenz or The Matrix and is definitely worth checking out on DVD! Pre-Order Avalon at DVDEmpire.com , Amazon.com, DVDPlanet or DeepDiscountDVD

Only theCreme de la Creme of DVDs get DVD Talk's highest rating: the DVD Talk Collector Series. We're happy to report that a few recent DVDs have received this most prestigious of rating including: Nowhere in Africa: SE, 2003 Tour de France: Lance Armstrong (12 Hour Version), The Work of Director Spike Jonze, Knife in the Water - Criterion Collection, Yankee Doodle Dandy: SE, The Hills Have Eyes: SE and The Lion King: Platinum Series. See a Complete List of all the DVD Talk Collector Series Rated DVDs and be sure to Sign Up to receive the Collector's Series Newsletter featuring these top rated DVD reviews.

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