This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including: American Grindhouse - It's a wild docu excursion through eighty years of curious public entertainments too seedy or notorious for the mainstream movies -- sex, drugs, violence, sideshow freaks, and gore; The Battle of Algiers - Gillo Pontecorvo's revolutionary epic takes a gritty look at the Algerian war that involved guerilla resistance, torture, murder and lawlessness on both sides; and Hearts of the West - This comic tale follows young Lewis Tater, an aspiring "novelist of western fiction" who stumbles into the movie game in the early 1930s and almost becomes a cowboy hero of the silver screen. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.