This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Van Helsing [Blu-ray] - Stephen Sommers' attempt to reboot the Classic Universal Horrors gets a fair trial on the Blu-ray format ... hey, that's a lot of, um, interesting CGI work, there. Starring Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale and some very active pixel people; Private Century - This amazing Czech miniseries covers fifty years of history as seen through the Home Movies of various Czech families. The films are amazing and the personal stories attain great novel status. Gripping entertainment and mind-opening revelations in Facets Video's two-DVD set; and Wagner: Die Walküre - Something new for Savant -- a review of an opera Blu-ray, by a reviewer who knows next to nothing about opera but finds it fascinating just the same. Carl St. Claire conducts; Catherine Foster sings Brünnhilde in a modernistic staging of part 2 of the Ring Cycle. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.