This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including: Places in the Heart - writer-director Robert Benton tells a personal story from his Texas hometown, of Depression-era hard times; Pit Stop - here we have Jack Hill's best movie in a perfect presentation. The story of a stock car figure-8 racer's violent career transcends its exploitation genre to make a bigger statement about the drive to win and the price of competition; and Thunder Road - this is the touchstone film for the hipster lone-wolf existential road film... Robert Mitchum is as close as the movies ever came to Jack Kerouac. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.