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In this week's The Aisle View, reviewer Megan Denny declares The Missing a safe bet for escaping a cranky family on Turkey Day, but for more seasoned filmgoers, she recommends In America (now in Limited Release). Also in this week's The Aisle View, Megan's review of the second film from acclaimed director Alejandro Alejandro González Iñárritu: 21 Grams, this intense film about three lives forever changed by an accident showcases the remarkable acting talents of Naomi Watts while it emotional hammers the audience. 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 The Edge of the World - Michael Powell's first solo producing effort is a landmark drama about life on a remote English islet, Our Town - FOCUSfilm brings us the best-looking (and first authorized) DVD of the film version of Thornton Wilder's play, The Stephen Sondheim Collection - Six hefty discs in one gift box, Tokyo Story - a definitive presentation of Yasujiro Ozu's critical masterpiece from 1953 from Criterion, and Oklahoma! - The 1999 London stage presentation comes to DVD in a production that betters the 1955 Todd A-O movie in every respect. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

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The rush to get all the major DVDs out for the holiday buying season continues with a number of notable DVDs released this week including: Bruce Almighty [Review] - an extremely silly and fun showcase for funny man Jim Carrey with deleted scenes and outtakes that are simply hilarious, X2 - X-Men United [Review] - a fantastic DVD for one of the summer's most fun films, X2 is a step up from the first X-Men and it's definitely worth checking out, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: SE [Review] - this classic family film is back on an absolutely loaded DVD, MGM has done a great job with their 2 disc SE's and this one is no acception, Best of Mail Call: Season 1 [Review] - R. Lee Ermey fans will be happy to see this popular A&E series come to DVD, finally from HBO comes Ellen Degeneres: Here and Now [Review] - Degeneres returns to her stand-up roots in a special that is a real treat.

This week we're excited to bring you a giveaway for one of the hottest DVD releases of the year: X2 - X-Men United [Review], This 2 Disc special edition is packed with special features and manages to both surpass the first X-Men movie and DVD!! X2 - X-Men United features: Commentary by Director Brian Singer and Tom Sigel, a second commentary track with Lauren Schuler Donner, Ralph Winter, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris, and David Hayter, The Documentary – "The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men" – Making of X2, 11 featurettes, 11 deleted scenes and more! Enter now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of X2 - X-Men United we're giving away this week!

It's TV time again and we've got another chance for you to catch DVD Talk's TV Segment (which is broadcast live on ABC in Portland, OR). On this month's segment we take a look at Finding Nemo with clips from 'Exploring the Reef with Jean-Michel Cousteau, The Lord of The Rings - The Two Towers Extended edition with a peek at one of the extended scenes and a making of feature on Gollum, X2 - X-Men United with a behind the scenes stunts feature and Winged Migration with a look at exactly how they got so close to those birds! Watch this show (which runs about 5mins) [Windows Media High Bandwidth | Real Player Low Bandwidth]. If you're in Portland you can catch our next segment on December 2nd for our annual Gift Guide!

Here's a quick wrap up of some of the DVD titles just announced by studios: Universal has announced the DVD release for one of our very favorite films of 2003 Lost in Translation on 3/3 [Review], artfully directed by Sofia Coppola with a near perfect performance by Bill Murray, Warner Bros. has My Fair Lady: 2 Disc Special Edition on 2/3 - the next title in their popular two disc classic film restoration line, Columbia Tri-Star has The Critic: The Entire Series on 1/27 starring a very animated Jon Lovitz and produced by the same team that does The Simpsons, New Yorker has The Stone Reader on 2/10 [Review], a hidden gem documentary that captures the love and passion people have for books, and Artisan has the video game turned movie House of the Dead on 1/27. See All the Up Coming DVDs listed here.

The DVD Talk DVD Easter Egg Database has been quickly growing, greatly in part from the fantastic submissions from DVD Talk readers like you. Some of the latest Eggs to be uncovered include: Gollum's acceptance speech from the MTV movie awards on the The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Extended Edition DVD, Fun with Bruce and Dory on Finding Nemo, A Hidden Audio Commentary on The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season and a Blooper Reel on Babylon 5: The Complete Third Season. Find out how to access all these great hidden features and more in the DVD Talk Easter Egg Database. Also be sure to help our DVD Easter Egg Database grow by submitting DVD easter eggs when you uncover them on your DVDs!

In this week's The Aisle View, reviewer Megan Denny pines for films from her childhood after watching the lackluster live-action The Cat in the Hat and answers the all important question: will kids like it?. Also this week The Aisle View takes a look at the latest Michael Crichton book to be made into a film: Timeline - find out how this screenplay like book translates onto the screen. Finally, for everyone who secretly (or not so secretly) hates the holidays Bad Santa is a lump of coal (in a good way) that Disney is up in arms about (yep Miramax released it) and will be a surefire holiday classic...so long as you hate the holidays. 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 La Strada - Savant thought he'd seen it too many times, but it never looked or sounded as good as this, Pale Flower - Masahiro Shinoda's ode to nihilism is a yakuza noir, Lianna - John Sayles is back with another impressive, superior independent film from the 80s, Pretty Baby- A masterpiece Savant never saw, a censorship-blind look at prostitution eighty years ago with child actress Brooke Shields in the middle of it all. What Have I Done to Deserve This? - Pedro Almodóvar gives us the ultimate dysfunctional family, The Serpent and the Rainbow - Wes Craven's most worthwhile horror effort is a classy trip into terror via Hatian voodoo, The Solid Gold Cadillac - Judy Holliday shines in this early critique of corporate chicanery and Looney Tunes Premiere Collection - 28 of Termite Terrace's finest, this splinter collection of cartoons is a good cross-section of Warners fun. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

This week there's no more notable DVD than the highly anticipated Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (Extended Edition) which adds a whopping 43 minutes of new material to the already epicly proportioned film. If you're looking for something more family friendly Dreamworks has Sinbad - Legend of the Seven Seas which got overlooked in theaters and is definitely worth checking out on DVD, Columbia Tri-Star has the beautiful Winged Migration with a great behind the scenes doc that shows you exactly how they got so close to those birds, Paramount has Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West and we've got a fantastic look at it from The DVD Savant. From Plexifilm comes Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns a gigantic DVD for a fascinating band, and Warner Bros. has the extremely popular The West Wing - Season 1 a definite purchase for fans of the show.

This week we've got a special giveaway for one of TV's best dramas, the highly acclaimed West Wing - Season 1 now on DVD. We're giving away 5 copies of West Wing featuring audio commentary with show creator Aaron Sorkin, in-depth making-of documentaries, a collection of outtakes and bloopers, deleted scenes and more. Enter now for your chance to win West Wing - Season 1.

DVD reviewer Jason Bovberg hunkered down with Fox's new Alien Quadrilogy 9-disc set and has delivered the most thorough review you're likely to find on the Web. Prepare yourself for sparkling new video transfers and audio mixes, new footage in all four films (including a new Special Edition cut of Alien3 that vastly improves the troublesome film), and an almost incomprehensibly vast collection of behind-the-scene footage, candid interview segments, on-set antics, special-effects tests and failures, amusing outtakes, peeks behind the intricate sets, in-depth looks at memorable scenes, and an awe-inspiring archive of original art, conceptual designs, storyboards, production photographs, and candid shots. And plenty of surprises! The Alien Quadrilogy is like no DVD set you've seen before. Read Jason's extensive review now.

Every once in a while a studio hits it out of the park with a series of DVDs, and we're happy to report that Palm Pictures has hit a grand slam with their new Directors Label Series - the first series from a studio to get the highly coveted DVD Talk Collectors Series rating on every disc in the series! Read the DVD Talk Reviews for The Work of Director Spike Jonze, The Work of Director Michel Gondry and The Work of Director Chris Cunningham and find out why this series is worth your time and hard-earned money! Each of the DVDs in this series can be found online for under $15 each which proves that great DVDs don't have to cost a fortune.

Here's a quick wrap up of some of the DVD titles just announced by studios: From Columbia Tri-Star comes the fantastic documentary Spellbound on 1/20 [Review] a remarkable look at the National Spelling Bee that should not be missed. Another great film for the entire family comes from New Line who will release Secondhand Lions on 2/3 as the newest member of their New Line Platinum Series. The curious will want to see Meg Ryan's career reboot with the steamy In The Cut on 2/3 [Review] it's not a great movie but it's interesting to see Ryan shed her good girl image. Fox has announced Lucia, Lucia on 1/13 more evidence of the Renaissance in Latin cinema. and finally from Warner Bros. comes the DVD release for Gilligan's Island - The Complete First Season on 2/3 - what started out as a three hour tour is now a three DVD box set! See All the Up Coming DVDs listed here.

Columnist G. Noel Gross files a report from the Chiller Theatre Expo celebrating 13 ghastly years of unparalleled fan frenzy. During this pilgrimage, Noel checks in with CineSchlocker faves like Clint Howard and gets the inside scoop on some cool new DVD releases -- such as Anchor Bay's Evilspeak and Dawn of the Dead!!! Plus, 28 Days Later giveaway winners, responses to reader emails and The Equalizer joins CineSchlock-O-Rama's Most Wanted.

This week The Aisle View takes a look at Russell Crowe's latest big screen adventure Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. With Peter Weir at the helm and fingers crossed at the studio(s) for an Oscar nod (any nod will do fine) there are extremely high expectations for this high seas adventure. Find out if Master and Commander lives up to the hype or is just another soggy action flick. Also this week is the fifth film about rapper TuPac Shakur entitled appropriately TuPac Resurrection and a charming British film Love Actually which is actually quite nice. 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 the highly anticipated release from Paramount of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West. There's a lot to be said and argued about Once Upon a Time in the West and Savant goes to town on it. Savant also takes a look at Image's release for The Dick Van Dyke Show, Seasons One and Two - an example of what Smart and Funny was like in '62, Warner Bros. release of High Sierra a classic that made Humphrey Bogart a mainstream star, Criterion's Le Cercle rouge. a stylized and ritualized continental criminal epic that crime fans will love and Columbia TriStar's The World of Apu, the honored Indian masterpiece which is an excellent movie on a less than excellent DVD. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

It's here! We've got an extensive review for one of the most highly anticipated DVD releases of the year: Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Edition). Find out how The Two Towers: Extended Edition DVD measures up to last year's The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition and how the additional 43 minutes of new and extended scenes effects the film. Read our complete review of The Two Towers: Extended Edition DVD Now!

Geoffrey Rush rocketed to success in 1996 with his brilliant Oscar award winning performance as Pianist David Helfgott in the critically acclaimed film Shine. Since then he has had an amazing string of performances acting with Cate Blanchett, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp and a little clown fish called Nemo. We had the opportunity to talk to Geoffrey Rush just as the Finding Nemo DVD was hitting stores and just a month before the Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl hit DVD. Rush talks about his experience being an animated character in Nemo, working with Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean and his next project The Life of Death of Peter Sellers. Read our Complete Interview with Geoffrey Rush

He said he'd be back... and so now he is: T3: Rise of the Machines [Review] leads off this week's notable DVD, with what might be the last of the Terminator DVD releases. If you can't get enough of Arnold then you can get a double dose by checking out Pumping Iron- The 25th Anniversary Special Edition. Disney has an extremely notable DVD/Game release this week with Lilo & Stitch's Island of Adventures Game [Review] - a surprisingly fun game that might just be hint of things to come. Criterion finally brings the completely strange David Cronenberg film Naked Lunch on to DVD, and Buena Vista has the easy to miss but equally notable Gerry from Gus Van Sant. Finally, to commemorate the anniversary of JFK's assassination Warner Bros has the 2 disc JFK :Special Edition - often argued about by critics, it still is one to catch.

With all the mammoth DVD releases out there, sometimes it's nice to take a break and just watch something fun and silly. This week we have a giveaway for one fun and silly DVD from New Line Home Entertainment for Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd - Platinum Series DVD - a prequel to the popular Farrelly Bros. film. Dumb and Dumberer is packed with extras including: Bloopers and Outtakes, 9 Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary, Feature Length Audio Commentary, Casting the Perfect Dummies Documentary, Dumb and Dangerous Making-of Documentary, and More! Enter Now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of Dumb and Dumberer we're giving away this week.

Here's a quick wrap up of some of the DVD titles just announced by studios: From Buena Vista Home Entertainment comes Tim Burton's Ed Wood: Special Edition on 2/10 a 2 disc special edition for a movie with fantastic performances all the way around. Warner Bros. following on their success with one Richard Chamberlain mini-series: Shogun [Review] has announced another one: The Thron Birds on 2/24. Paramount has announced Ashton Kutcher's MTV gag show Punk'd: The Complete First Season on 1/20 a 2-Disc 'box set' with all 8 Episodes from season one including exclusive scenes that did not air on MTV. HBO has announced Oz: The Complete Third Season on 2/24 another installment of their brutal prison series [reviews of past seasons]. Speaking of successive seasons BBC has announced the popular sci-fi series Red Dwarf Season 3 & 4 on 2/3 [reviews of past seasons]. Finally from Universal comes the announcement for the thriller Swimming Pool on 1/20 starring Charlotte Rampling which will come in both rated and unrated version. See All the Up Coming DVDs listed here.

With such mega releases as Finding Nemo, X2 and Lord of The Rings: Two Towers Extended Edition coming out this month, it would be extremely easy to miss Plexifilm's DVD release of Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns. In an ongoing effort to feature great DVDs that are easy to miss - DVD Talk is excited to bring you the exclusive first look DVD review for the upcoming DVD Documentary on the quirky and creative band They Might Be Giants. Gigantic (A tale of two John's) takes a look at the journey of They Might Be Giants, from their High School roots in Lincoln Massachusetts all the way through to the present and has a fantastic mix of interviews, live concert footage and archival material. Read our complete review of Gigantic

With all eyes on Matrix Revolutions it would be easy to overlook the theatrical release for Gus Van Sant's award winning film Elephant which has finally found its way into US Theaters. Elephant. Aisle View, critic Megan Denny takes a look at the stark and beautiful vision of Elephant. Also this week Aisle View has Reloaded it's initial review of The Matrix:Revolutions with some new thoughts on the final chapter of The Matrix Series. Want to get The Aisle View right when it's published? Sign Up to get The Aisle View delivered free to your email box!

It's that time of year when we see the greatest concentration of DVDs which get DVD Talk's highest rating: the DVD Talk Collector Series. Recent inductees to this high status include: Finding Nemo - a fantastic DVD for kids and adults, X2 - X-Men United - one of the best action films of the summer and it even best's the first X-Men, The Indiana Jones Trilogy - a must for any DVD collection, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: SE - forget the remake, there ain't nothing like the real thing baby! Coupling - The Complete Second Season - the second installment of the British series which is truly hilarious, Shoah - a devastatingly brilliant look at the Holocaust, Whale Rider: Special Edition - a fantastic film for the whole family Cronos: 10th Anniversary Special Edition - Blade II director Guillermo del Toro's Directorial debut, and Space Nuts only the 6th Adult title to ever get the coveted Collector Series Rating.

This week the DVD Savant takes a look at Warners' To Have and Have Not with star appeal at its best, a romantic couple famous for pairing up offscreen during the making of the movie, Fox's Studio Classics presentation of The Ox-Bow Incident proves that the studio doesn't play around with the cream of its library, A Christmas Wish a film really irks Savant as it's a remarketed, retitled, colorized bit of subterfuge. MGM's llavish Special Edition of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a film Savant grudgingly admits is some kind of a children's classic, even though it drives him up the wall, Paramount's beautifully transferred Dragonslayer, the handsome return of giant stop-motion monsters to the screen courtesy of ILM's animator Phil Tippett and Kino's The Man Who Laughs which is the best silent film Savant's seen in ages! Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

If you've come 2/3rds of the way through a series like The Matrix odds are you're going to see it through to the end, no matter what any film critic might write or how painful that might be (see: Star Wars Series). So rather than give a blow by blow of all that's right and wrong with The Matrix Revolutions we've got 3 reviews for you to help get you prepared and set your expectations for the final chapter of the Matrix Trilogy. Read Matrix Revolution reviews from DVD Talk Editor - Geoffrey Kleinman (a 100% spoiler free review) , Aisle View Columnist Megan Denny and DVD Talk Reviewer Aaron Beierle.

It's Here! This year's biggest DVD release - Finding Nemo and we're proud to bring you a Finding Nemo DVD Giveaway! Finding Nemo is a jam packed 2 Disc Special Edition including a visual commentary, deleted scenes, making-of documentaries, and much more! Finding Nemo received DVD Talk's highest review rating the 'Collector Series' [Review] and is one of the most enjoyable DVDs we've seen in a long time! Enter now for your chance to win one of 5 Copies of Finding Nemo we're giving away this week.

If you're looking for one of the most notable DVDs of the year look no further than Finding Nemo [Review] - we're predicting Nemo will set several DVD records including 'best first day sales' and 'top selling animated DVD of all time' (update - the numbers are in and Finding Nemo smashed first day records with a whopping 8 Million units sold, that's around $160 Million in sales), it's an impressive DVD that should be part of everyone's DVD Collection! Other notable DVDs this week include The Humphry Bogart Classics: To Have and Have Not [Review], High Sierra, Dark Passage and They Drive by Night. While not a clasic yet Tenacious D - Complete Master Works has a permanent home on any Tenacious D fans shelf. Also out this week on DVD are a ton of TV on DVD including the reality TV shows Anna Nicole - Season 1 and Big Brother Season 3, the popular Friends - Season 5, Star Trek Deep Space Nine Season 6 and X-Files Season 8 [Review].

Chances are you know Austin Pendleton even if you think you don't. The bespectacled character actor's slight frame, toothy grin and nervous stammer have endeared him as a film fixture for more than 30 years. Most recently, Austin shared an aquarium with the namesake of Finding Nemo, and in this exclusive interview, he offers his typically charming insights on character acting, why he thinks Russell Crowe is so swell, the vocal acrobatics of making Nemo and flashes his wicked wit in the face of unexpected interview shenanigans.

Jeff Probst is best know as the host of the popular reality TV show Survivor, but what most people don't know is that he is an award winning film writer and director. His first feature Finder's Fee, now on DVD, was a grand slam on the festival circuit, and won more festival awards than most tribes win immunity challenges. We had an opportunity to talk to Jeff Probst as he was packing his bags to head off to shoot the next season of Survivor. Find out what Jeff Probst has to say about getting Finder's Fee on to DVD, the secret to success in Hollywood and of course what's in store for the next Survivor. Also be sure to Enter to Win one of 5 copies of Finder's Fee signed by Jeff Probst!

Here's a quick wrap up of some of the DVD titles just announced by studios: Fox has the much buzzed about Alien Quadrilogy Box Set on 12/9 which DOES include the Director's cut of Alien [Review] now in theaters, Columbia Tri-Star has Underworld on 1/6 [Review] - yes Kate Beckinsale looks great in leather but the movie pales in comparison to many of the great vampire flicks already on DVD, HBO has the controversial Capturing the Friedmans on 1/27 with a ton of extra content that gives even more fuel to the argument over what exactly happened and American Splendor on 2/3 [Review] one of the most innovative bio-pics we've ever seen, and certainly one of the best films of 2003! MGM has Rain Man: Special Edition on 2/3 with the key feature being a Barry Levinson's audio commentary and Buena Vista has Spy Kids 3D on 2/24 complete with several pairs of 3D glasses. See All the Up Coming DVDs listed here.

With literally thousands of DVD Reviews in the DVD Talk Review Database is easy to miss some of our top reviews. Here's quick round up of them: The Hulk - Ang Lee's much discussed adaptation of the classic comic book, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - Arnold's back with the third installment of this popular series, X2 - X-Men United - one of the summers best action films comes on a fantastic DVD, Whale Rider - as good as you've heard. Finding Nemo - guaranteed to be the biggest DVD of 2003, The Indiana Jones Trilogy - probably the first item on most people's holiday wish lists, Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle - a guilty pleasure and SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete First Season the set SpongeBob fans have been waiting for.

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