This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: The Host - This year's surprise hit is nothing less than a full-blooded giant monster movie from South Korea; The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing - Savant finishes off the Joan Collins Collection with an extended review of the English actress's most prestigious vehicle; The Stranger - Orson Welles' suspenseful tale sends Nazi hunter Edward G. Robinson in pursuit of escaped butcher Franz Kindler who has hidden himself in a small Connecticut township; Act of Violence & Mystery Street - Crazed Robert Ryan goes gunning for family man Van Heflin, and Ricardo Montalban persists on a 'closed' murder case, using modern forensic medicine; Crime Wave and Decoy Warner's Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 4 contains five double bills but this is the most unusual; Malpertuis - Harry Kumel's weird tale of strange people imprisoned in the house of a dying sea captain is a mix of nightmarish events and classical allusions; James Ellroy: American Dog - The outspoken (and then some) hardboiled author takes us on a nocturnal tour of Noir L.A. recounting the personal history that spurred his literary obsessions. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.