This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: John Carpenter's The Thing - Savant digs into this terrific Sci-Fi horror remake, that scores on every count and then settles for a frustrating finish. It looks fantastic in Blu-ray, but why is Universal so stingy with the extras? We're grateful for our riches where we can find them; Rodan & War of the Gargantuas - Classic Media finishes its Toho fantasy series with contrasting Kaiju Eiga crowd pleasers. Rodan is a 50s classic and War of the Gargantuas a kooky 60s thriller with a catatonic Russ Tamblyn in the starring role. Also included is a new docu, Bringing Godzilla Down to Size, about the effects men behind, and inside, Toho's rubber-suited city wreckers; and Beetlejuice - Tim Burton cemented his claim on the director's chair with this horror comedy that's really a ghost-oriented film blanc. Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis do the haunting, while Winona Ryder makes the goth look fashionable and Michael Keaton goes nuts in a the showoff title role. Great Danny Elfman score, Sylvia Sydney, Harry Belafonte -- it's almost perfection. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.