This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including: The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton's debut technothriller is packed with narrative problems, only partly solved -- it's a movie made 80% of technical exposition, and it's still fascinating; Message from Hiroshima - a former resident of Hiroshima constructs an ode to the memory of what was destroyed; and Our Mother's House - This oddball thriller has a gothic - Dickensian feel but comes off as a horror subject with only a bit of horror. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.