A lot of notable titles finding their way on to DVD this week including the highly anticipated DVD release for Gangs of New York [Review] a loaded DVD including commentary from Martin Scorsese. Charlie Chaplin fans will be in seventh heaven this week with the release of The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 1 which includes the classic Chaplin films Modern Times, The Gold Rush, The Great Dictator and Limelight - the restorations are breath taking and the films are simply amazing. New Line Cinema has their much maligned Real Cancun [Review] which turns out to be one genuinely fun teen sex comedy. IndieDVD has Bill Plympton's fun an bizarre Mutant Aliens [Review] and MGM rounds out the notables with the amazing Wings of Desire [Review], To Live and La Femme Nikita:SE [Review].

This week we have a special giveaway for Martin Scorses's epic tale of the birth of New York with The Gangs of New York. The Gangs of New York DVD features: Commentary by director Martin Scorsese, History of Five Points featurette, Exploring the sets (multi-angle), Discovery Channel special "Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York", a Five Points study guide, And More! Enter Now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of the Gangs of New York DVD. Also be sure not to miss Cinema Gotham's feature Through the Past Darkly: What You Need To Know About Gangs of New York

Ladies break out your thongs -- foot variety or otherwise -- because it's time for couch-side ogling of spring breakers in The Real Cancun. Enter to win one of five Real Cancun DVD prize packs in this week's CineSchlock-O-Rama exclusive giveaway! Celebrate victory over VHS oblivion with the Most Wanted Capture of Jaws 3 and its partner in crime Jaws: The Revenge. Do horndog dreams really come true? Find out in A Date With Anna Kournikova. Exploitation cinema proves itself alive and kinky in Ted Bundy. Plus, responses to reader emails and Dinosaur Island joins CineSchlock-O-Rama's Most Wanted.

Warner Bros. Home Video has announced the DVD release for the 3rd Season of Babylon 5. Set for release on August 12th Babylon 5 - Season 3, a six-disc collectors set, will be presented in 16x9 Anamorphic Widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio and feature: An introduction from series creator J. Michael Straczynski, Commentary on three key episodes by series creator and stars, 'Behind the Mask: Creating the Aliens of Babylon 5' , 'Designing a Better Narn', 'Designing Tomorrow: The Look of Babylon 5' and more. Total running time of this puppy is a whopping 968 minutes!!! Read our reviews for Babylon 5 Season 1 and Babylon 5 Season 2. at Amazon, DVDEmpire or DeepDiscountDVD

Warner Bros. has announced the DVD release for Smallville - The Complete First Season. Set for release on September 23rd, Smallville a 6 disc set will contain all 21 episodes from the first season presented in anamorphic widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. Smallville will feature: audio commentaries on the pilot by executive producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, as well as pilot director David Nutter. Another commentary with Gough and Millar appears on the show's second episode entitled "Metamorphosis.", deleted scenes from two episodes, including the pilot, a storyboard to screen featurette for the pilot, an interactive tour of Smallville, and more. Pre-Order Smallville - The Complete First Season Now .

Paramount Home Video has announced the DVD release for one of TVs most popular mini-series Shogun based on the best seller by James Clavell and starring Richard Chamberlain. Set for release on September 23rd James Clavell's Shogun a 5 disc set, will be presented in fullscreen with newly remixed Dolby Digital 5.1 audio and feature: Commentary by director Jerry London on select scenes, "The Making of Shogun" a 13-segment documentary, 3 historical perspective featurettes, and more! Pre-Order Shogun at Amazon or DVDEmpire.

The first great summer movie has finally arrived with " Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle." Energetic, funny and action packed, it's just as good as the original: check out the full review in This Week's Aisle View. Also this week in The Aisle View is the US release of Danny Boyle's excellent 28 Days Later which imagines a world ravaged by disease and plagued by infected zombie-like humans. Even non-horror fans can appreciate this film: find out why.Want to get The Aisle View right when it's published? Sign Up to get The Aisle View delivered free to your email box!

This week the DVD Savant takes a look Criterion's Il Posto - a charming and rewarding bit of neorealism about a shy young man's entry into the Milan workforce, Wellspring's really good version of Jean-Luc Godard's My Life to Live, Universal's Midnight Run a Savant's favorite mainstream action-buddy film of the modern era (post Sly and Ah-nold), A&E's 5 disc, 39-episode box of Supercar: The Complete Series, Image's Stephen Sondheim's Passion - yet another rare pleasure to put beside Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd, Home Vision's truly strange Warm Water Under a Red Bridge a fanciful drama that combines a fairy story with sex, and lots and lots of water imagery, and Paramount's Popeye - A big, mismanaged mess from Robert Altman with the pleasures of a perfectly cast Popeye and Olive Oyl. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Last week DVD studios, producers and press all converged for the Annual Video Store Magazine DVD Conference: 'DVD in 50' which marked 50 Million US homes with DVD players. Issues discussed at the conference include The Future for DVD and HD-DVD, Blue Laser, The Role of Microsoft in the Future of Home Video and what you won't find on Lord of The Rings Two Towers Extended Edition. Get our complete run down on the DVD in 50 Conference and our take on the future of DVD & HD.

This week we've got a very special giveaway for Lost in La Mancha, a unique documentary about a film that never was made. Lost in La Mancha follows Terry Gilliam on his 10 year quest to make a film adaptation of 'Don Quixote' - an almost impossible feat once attempted unsuccessfully by Orsen Wells. Lost in La Mancha is a magnificent look at film where anything that could go wrong did and how one of the most creative contemporary directors copes with complete disaster. Enter Now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of Lost in La Mancha we're giving away this week!

A real solid week of Notable DVDs starting off with the long awaited PT Anderson flick Punch Drunk Love [Review] a quirky film more enjoyed after multiple viewings, Paramount's excellent DVD release of the Academy Award winning The Hours [Review] a staggeringly emotional film. A quick turn from theaters to DVD for Cowboy Bebop - The Movie [Review] is welcomed feat for anime fans in a DVD that is sure to please. Criterion has a busy week with their notable: Ali - Fear Eats the Soul, Night and Fog [Review], Hiroshima Mon Amour, I Fidanzati and Il Posto all we can say is 'Thanks Criterion' for another round of great DVDs. From MGM comes the cop thriller Dark Blue [Review] while not perfect, is engaging, and finally there's Docurama's Lost in La Mancha [Review] a brilliant portrait of a film where everything that can go wrong does.

The long awaited pre-order is now up for Lord of The Rings Extended Edition. This 4 Disc edition is set for release on November 18 will be presented in anamorphic widescreen with both Dolby Digital-EX and DTS-ES and feature: An Extended cut of The Two Towers (with over 40 minutes of new integrated footage), 4 Audio Commentaries by Director & Writers, the Design Team, the Production Team and the Cast, a complete appendices (as with the previous Extended Edition) with features on Adapting the book, Designing Middle-earth, An interactive map of New Zealand Storyboards, Weta Workshop, Sending actors to battle - Preparation for sword fighting, Stories from the set Digital effects, A close-up look at the detailed miniatures used in the film, Post-production, a Sound design demonstration and MORE! Pre-Order Lord of The Rings - The Two Towers Extended Edition at Amazon, DVDEmpire and DVDPlanet .

Best Deal Magazines is running a BLOW OUT Sale on 2 rarely discounted magazine titles. They have by far the best deal we've EVER Seen onEntertainment Weekly, where you get 1 full year subscription for only $3.95! To get the discount you must enter code: ENTWBF629 at check out. It's like getting 1 year of Entertainment Weekly for the price of 1 issue! Another magazine rarely discounted is Time Magazine which you can get a full year subscription for only $5.95, just use code: TIMEBF629 at check out. We rarely see deals on Time Warner Weekly Magazines so be sure not to miss these 2 red hot deals!

Twentieth Century Fox Home Video has announced the DVD release for The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season. Set for release on August 26th The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season a 4 Disc Box set will be presented in full frame with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio and feature: Audio Commentary on all episodes, When Flanders Failed, Flaming Moe’s, Radio Bart and Colonel Homer 'Pop-Ups'', Storyboards & sketches, Butterfinger and Toyota TV ads, Baby translator, Audio outtakes and a Jukebox feature. Also available individually is the classic Simpsons's Episode: The Simpsons: Treehouse Of Horror which will be released on September 2nd (and whose only special feature is a Video montage of Kang and Kodo's finest moments). Pre-Order The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season at The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season at Amazon, DVDEmpire or DeepDiscountDVD

Krzysztof Kieslowski fans will be excited to hear that Facets Multimedia will be re-releasing Kieslowski's opus The Decalogue on DVD. Set for release on August 19, The Decalogue: Special Edition a 3 disc set with a dizzying running time of 584 minutes will feature: the complete Decalogue, an introduction by film critic Roger Ebert, three short documentaries about director Krzysztof Kieslowski: "On the Set of The Decalogue," "Kieslowski Meets the Press," and "Kieslowski Known and Unknown," an interview with scriptwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz , a printed booklet with an introduction by Kieslowski and more. Pre-Order The Decalogue at Amazon, DVDEmpire or DeepDiscountDVD. Kieslowski fans, also be sure not to miss the DVD release of Heaven (out now) which was written by Kieslowski and Directed by Run Lola Run Director Tom Tykwer!

What's green and strong and 30 minutes too long? The Hulk! Director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) clearly had good intentions when he decided to devote the first four reels of this film to character development; but the result is a sluggish action film instead of a meaningful adaptation. Check out this week's The Aisle View for the full review. Also be sure to check out The Aisle View's take on Rugrats Go Wild, Jet Lag, Spellbound and Finding Nemo. Want to get The Aisle View right when it's published? Sign Up to get The Aisle View delivered free to your email box!

This week the DVD Savant takes a look at Warner Bros' 2 Disc Special Edition of Sergio Leone's almost four-hour gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America, All Day's Christ in Concrete Edward Dmytryk's difficult to describe film, Criterion's Night and Fog the full 1955 Holocaust essay-film with additional text essays and an interview with its director Alain Resnais, Paramount's The Desperate Hours a William Wyler suspense favorite, New Line Home Enterainment's Death and the Maiden Roman Polanski makes big suspense and drama out of three people in a single room for 90 minutes, Home Vision Entertainment's Black and White in Color Jean-Jacques Annaud's hilariously dark look at real events in colonial Africa in WW1 and Image Entertainment's release of Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Lions Gate Home Video has announced the DVD release for Irreversible starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. Set for release on August 5th Irreversible will be presented in Anamorphic Widescreen with French Dolby Digital 5.1 and feature: Cast and director commentary, Making of the special effects, Deleted scenes and more. Irreversible is definately a movie which pushes at boundaries, is extremely graphically violent, and magnifcently put together. Read our Theatrical Review of Irreversible and Pre-Order Irreversible at Amazon or DVDEmpire.

This week we've got a great giveaway for Lions Gate Home Entertainment's DVD release of the popular USA series The Dead Zone: Season One starring Anthony Michael Hall. The Dead Zone: Season One is a four disc box set with Anamorphic Widescreen and Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio featuring: "Genesis" a featurette on the creation of the show, Interviews with the show's cast and crew, "Writing"- A featurette following the writing process, "Music And Special Effects" featurette, a featurette with award-winning composer Roy Hay and A behind the scenes collection featuring never before seen interviews with The Dead Zone's many guest stars including Sean Patrick Flannery and Chris Masterson. Enter Now for your chance to win one of 3 copies of The Dead Zone: Season One we're giving away this week!

A number of notable DVDs this week for films that have flown 'under the radar' of many film fans. The most notable this week comes from Paramount who has the gritty cop thriller - Narc [Review 1 & 2] with outstanding performances by Ray Liotta and Jason Patric, Showtime's Fest hit Interview With the Assassin [Review] a fascinating documentary style film about the legendary 'second gunman' who shot JFK, Universal's Deliver Us From Eva [Review] an urban update of 'Taming of the Shrew', Fox's guilty pleasure 'neo-romantic comedy' Just Married [Review] and two more solid TV to DVD releases: Lions Gate's The Dead Zone - The Complete First Season and MGM's Stargate SG-1 Season 3 [Review].

Mainstream Hollywood rekindles its strained romance with grue in Final Destination 2. Gender-bending monkey business abounds in Queen Kong. Strike up the fife and drum band for a flag-waving celebration of American Psycho's digital return, its pseudo-sequel American Psycho 2: All American Girl and American Mullet where it's all business up front and a PARTY in the back! Plus, responses to reader emails and Three O'Clock High joins CineSchlock-O-Rama's Most Wanted.

Good News for CSI fans. Paramount Home Video has announced the 2nd Season of CSI and this time around it will be in anamorphic widescreen (with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio)! Set for release on September 2nd, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - The Complete Second Season a six disc set, will feature: Audio Commentaries for 3 Episodes, 4 Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Featurettes, and a special look at the Makeup, Music & Special Effects of the show. Pre-Order CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - The Complete Second Season Now

Will the new Rugrats movie oust Disney/ Pixar as the best summer movie for kids? Not likely. " Rugrats Go Wild!" is a great movie for very small children; but, unlike "Finding Nemo," has little to offer anyone over the age of ten. Check out Megan Denny's full review in this week's The Aisle View. Also be sure to check out The Aisle View's take on Jet Lag, Spellbound, Finding NemoThe Italian Job. Want to get The Aisle View right when it's published? Sign Up to get The Aisle View delivered free to your email box!

This week the DVD Savant takes a look at Universal's The Pianist a film nothing short of a masterpiece. Roman Polanski carefully tempers his signature style, and produces the best dramatic document of the Holocaust yet seen. Warner's Giant a good special edition of the epic Texas saga, James Dean's third and last film. Fox's The Flight of the Phoenix another great picture, a male adventure tale of survival that forces a dozen uncooperative types to work together on an insane plan, Paramount's awesome Is Paris Burning? which tells a complicated historical story without cutting corners, Artisan's Cloak and Dagger a Fritz Lang spy film about Atomic secrets that had it's entire last scene censored (Savant has the full story), and Blue Underground gives the royal treatment to Baba Yaga, a weird attempt to convert an erotic Guido Crepax comic strip into an erotic comic book-like film. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Lion's Gate Home Video has announced the DVD release for Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses. Set for release on August 12th House of 1000 Corpses will feature: Audio Commentary with Director Rob Zombie, Theatrical Trailers including the Rob Zombie's original trailer, Screen Tests, Still and FX gallery, Featurettes designed specifically for the DVD by Rob Zombie, a Score Track. We got a TON of emails when we reviewed this film in the theaters, more so than almost any film we've covered this year. Pre-Order House of 1000 Corpses Now. Please note, we spoke to Lions Gate about the rumor of an unrated release for House of 1000 Corpses they stated that the DVD would only have the 'R' Rated theatrical cut and that the Unrated edition of the film will NOT be released on DVD.

IndieDVD has announced the DVD release for Bill Plympton's latest feature length animated film Mutant Aliens. Set for release on July 1st, Mutant Aliens will feature: a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary, a 'Mutant Aliens' game, Audio Commentary by Director Bill Plympton and a speak peek of Bill Plympton's upcoming work. Pre-Order Mutant Aliens Now at Amazon.com or DVD Empire

If you're a fan of Warner Bros. 2 Disc Special Editions (and who isn't) this week is nirvana for you with the release of Once Upon a Time in America:SE, The Right Stuff:SE [Review], Giant: SE [Review], and Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves :SE. Also out this week from Buena Vista is Salma Hayek's labor of love Frida [Review], Dreamworks' Old School: Unrated [Review] by Todd Phillips who directed Road Trip, Columbia Tri-Star's Tears of the Sun with Monica Bellucci (need we say any more!). Criterion finally has their much delayed by Brakhage: an anthology, HBO has the popular series The Best of Arli$$ and Fox has Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 4 [Review] one of those great series that was meant for DVD!

This week we've got a great giveaway for Twentieth Century Fox Home Video's DVD release of Just Married - a very fun 'modern' romantic comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy. The Just Married DVD features: Audio Commentary by Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy, and director Shawn Levy, Deleted scenes, Comedy Central's Reel Comedy: Just Married and a Making-of featurette. Enter Now for your chance to win one of five copies of Just Married!

You can now officially Pre-Order this years HUGE DVD release The Adventures of Indiana Jones - The Complete Movie DVD Collection is set for release on November 4th as a 4 DVD box set and will include: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' and 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,' available in separate THX certified widescreen or full frame versions with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. The set will also include a special fourth disc with newly produced documentaries that explore the making of the Indy films, including brand-new interviews with the cast and crew – including Spielberg, Ford and Lucas – plus scores of other surprises from all three films. The three Indiana Jones films will be available only as a collection and will not be sold individually. Pre-Order Indiana Jones Now at DVDEmpire or Amazon.

With Father's Day and Graduation Day quickly approaching it's a perfect time to make DVD Converts of the last of the DVD hold outs (there are now 50 Million DVD Players in the US). Amazon has the Toshiba SD2800 DVD Player on sale for the rock bottom price of $69.99 (that's $20 less than The First Season of The Sopranos). This is a great 'first' player for someone who has been holding on to their VCR like there's no tomorrow and it'll play MP3's burned on CD-R or CD-RW's. Pick up the Toshiba SD2800 DVD Player Now!

HBO Home Video has announced the DVD release for the Third Season of Mr. Show. Set for release on August 26th Mr. Show: The Complete Third Season features all 10 episodes from the 3rd season, Full 10 episode commentary with Bob and Dave, 2 promos and live footage from Mr. Show at the 1997 Comedy Arts Fest, 30 Minute 'Best of Mr. Show' featuring new material, 'Drugachusetts' the instrumental score by Eban Schletter and more! Pre-Order Mr. Show: The Complete Third Season Now and in case you missed it be sure to check out Mr. Show - The Complete First and Second Seasons [Review]

Home Vision Entertainment has announced the DVD Release of Home Movie, the latest documentary from Chris Smith (best known for his film American Movie). Set for release on August 19th Home Movie follows five extraordinary homes and the people who live in them. The DVD will feature:, Wild Bill's Gator Commercial Clip, History of Kansas Missile Bases, A Cat Photo Gallery, Linda Beech Publicity Stills, Liner Notes and more. Home Movie was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival, so be sure not to miss the DVD release of Home Movie.

While the T-2 Extreme Edition DVD looks and sounds fantastic [Review], the metal case it comes in has many DVD buyers Up in Arms. Unfortunately many unlucky T-2 Extreme Edition DVD buyers (ourselves included) are finding that the fancy metal case will quickly terminate the plastic amary case inside. Artisan has been quick to acknowledge the problem and they've set up an email address people to call to get new plastic replacement cases. The address to email for a replacement case is [email protected]. Since the metal cases are 'limited' they are only going to replace the plastic inside case, our advice is to NOT put the new case back in the metal sleeve as it WILL tear it!

Are you ready to get " 2 Fast 2 Furious"? This time around, there's no Vin Diesel, but you do get to see more hot cars and more hot girls. Is it worth a trip to the multiplex? How bad do you need air conditioning? Check out Megan Denny's full review in this week's The Aisle View. Also be sure to check out The Aisle View's take on Finding Nemo, Blue Car The Italian Job and Bruce Almighty. Want to get The Aisle View right when it's published? Sign Up to get The Aisle View delivered free to your email box!

This week the DVD Savant takes a look at Elite Entertainment's Strange Behavior an excellent DVD of the notable horror film, Fox's North to Alaska a sturdy DVD of the John Wayne vehicle, Criterion's Throne of Blood presents one of Kurosawa's most famous in the best possible light, MGM's Terror in a Texas Town is an oddity, even among oddities, Robert Aldrich's Attack! perhaps a bit overcooked on the theatrical trimmings, it contains shocks worthy of a war horror comic, and Paramount's The Lonely Man with Jack Palance - a wet noodle of a Western. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

This week we've got a very special James Bond - Die Another Day Giveaway. This week 1 Lucky DVD Talk will win the grand prize of A Limited Edition James Bond Collector's Car Set featuring 4 collectable die-cast models of the most notable James Bond Cars (including: Lotus Esprit Turbo from For Your Eyes Only, BMW Z3 form Goldeneye, Aston Martin Volante from The Living Daylights and the famous Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger. All cars are Scale 1:36 and come in a film cannister). Also 5 other lucky DVDTalkers will win a copy of the Die Another Day DVD a 2 Disc Special Edition PACKED with features including Commentary by Pierce Brosnan and Rosamund Pike, "Inside Die Another Day" documentary and much much more. Enter now for your chance to with the DVD Talk Die Another Day Giveaway

June gets going with a number of notable DVD releases including the much hyped Matrix tie-in DVD The Animatrix [Review], a tie-in from Universal whose The Fast and the Furious (Widescreen Tricked Out Edition) [Review] hits the finish line just as the films sequel takes off, the highly anticipated 3 Disc Deluxe Edition of Black Hawk Down, a super 2 disc Special Edition for the latest bond flick Die Another Day [Review], New Line's superb release for the Academy Award Nominated About Schmidt [Review], Warner's fan centric Empire Records, the '3rd time's a charm' T2 - Extreme DVD which yes, you're going to want to buy... again! Finally 2 great TV to DVD sets South Park - The Complete Second Season and Star Trek Deep Space Nine - Season 3!

In case you missed it the last time around, the Amazon 'Red hot Warner Bros DVD Sale' is back this week. Some standout deals include Clint Eastwood's True Crime 40% off at $8.99, Magnolia - New Line Platinum Series [Review] and Boogie Nights - New Line Platinum Series [Review] for 33% off at $19.99 each, Sex and the City - The Complete First Four Seasons [Review] 28% off at $137.35. As well as some great WB 2 Disc SE's: Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition) [Review] and Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition) at $17.99 each! Don't miss your chance to get the first crack at this Exclusive Preview Sale.

Columbia Tri-Star has announced the DVD Release for David Cronenberg's Spider starring Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne and Lynn Redgrave. Set for release on July 29th, Spider will be presented in anamorpic widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio and feature: Audio Commentary by David Cronenberg, "In the Beginning: How Spider Came to Be" Featurette, and "Caught in SPIDER's Web: The Cast" Featurette. Pre-Order Spider Now.

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