Steve-O and Chris Pontius have contributed to a lot of mind-warping and more than a few injuries with their work on Jackass. But their finest work yet has come on their own show, Wildboyz, where they have the chance to touch on such important modern issues as homosexuality, bestiality and uncontrollable vomiting. Gil Jawetz recently had the chance to review the Wildboyz season 1 DVD and chat with Steve-O about his show, his life and his love of the spotlight. He also filled us in on the future of the mysteriously unaired 3rd season of Wildboyz and revealed something that he actually is ashamed of - and it's not what you might think. Read our complete interview with Wildboy Steve-O and Read our Wildboyz DVD Review

This week, Silent DVD takes a look at a couple of recent releases that might have passed under some people’s radar. "The Girl with the Hatbox" is a comedy from Russia that presents an interesting look at life behind the Iron Curtain. Fractured Flickers was a syndicated show from the creators of Rocky and Bullwinkle that gave the Mystery Science Theater treatment to silent movies. The entire series is available on DVD and well worth the price. All this and a list of upcoming silent movies including DVDs staring Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, and several Mary Pickford movies. Read Silent DVD now because 'not all great DVDs are in 5.1'.

Just when you thought all the good DVDs had been announced for the year, studios announce another batch of noteworthy DVDs streeting in December, including: Shaun of The Dead on 12/21 - a genre defying zombie comedy is so good it's scary, Ghost In The Shell 2 on 12/28 - nothing can compare to the original, but this sequel is worth checking out in its own right, Wimbledon on 12/28 - we're Kirsten Dunst fans, but is that enough to pick up this lack luster film, Time Of The Wolf on 12/14 - another insanely good film from the folks at Palm Pictures. Other DVDs announced this week for beyond December include: AVP - Alien Vs. Predator on 1/25 - two big sci-fi franchises enter and only one will survive, or perhaps this will kill them both, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: Collector's Edition on 1/4 - we're as surprised as you are to see the announcement of a Collector's Edition of this amazing film, especially several months after the standard edition release, but who can complain when one of the best films of the year gets the royal treatment. Read our list of the Most Notable Upcoming DVDs.

This week, The DVD Savant has reviews of Castle Keep (Widescreen Version) - Columbia TriStar goes back on the Good Guy list with this quick response to the outrage over last July's pan-scan only release of this bizarre Panavision war film, Deadline - a state governor commutes the sentences of over 150 death row inmates, and the media covered it as a liberal outrage, Garden of Allah - Marlene Dietrich charms Charles Boyer out of a monastery in this lushly romantic, ridiculously fun early Technicolor bauble from David O. Selznick, Easy Rider 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition - The big counterculture watershed of the late 60 gets a deluxe treatment - it says so on the box, The Trojan Women - Michael Cacoyannis does interesting things with the ancient Euripides play and Suspicion - This famous suspense pairing of Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine leaves Savant cold - for his cranky 2 bits it's among Hitchcock's least interesting movies. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

On our October DVD Talk TV Segment on ABC TV's AM Northwest we took a look at 4 Notable DVDs: The Day After Tomorrow - a big fun disaster film that is so well done you'll forget how bad the script really is, Van Helsing - the perfect Halloween movie, it's so big and bad it borders on being good, Fahrenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore's personal essay documentary is a well crafted film and should be seen by people from both sides of the aisle, Aladdin: Special Edition - an exceptional special edition for one of Disney's most beloved modern films. Watch this show (which runs about 6 mins) in Windows Media High Bandwidth or Low Bandwidth. Also watch past month's segments.

Another solid week filled with notable DVDs including: Dawn of the Dead [Review] - one of the best horror remakes to date in an uncut and unrated edition, Mulan: SE [Review] - one of Disney's 'modern classics' gets the special edition it deserves, Control Room - a chilling behind the scenes look at Al Jazeera television and one of the best of the latest crop of politically focused documentaries, Wildboyz: S1 [Review] - Jackass meets Animal Kingdom and it's so funny you'll laugh till it hurts, 21 Jump Street: S1 - TV teen cop fun from a time when Johnny Depp was considered a 'teen idol', White Chicks [Review] - not an amazing film, but crudely funny none the less. Other notable DVDs this week include: China Syndrome: SE [Review], The OC: Complete First Season, That 70's Show: S1 [Review] and Viva La Bam: S1 [Review]. Read our List of Top Upcoming DVDs for more great DVDs out this week, and visit our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

Everyone loves to have a guilty pleasure now and than, so this week we have a special giveaway for The OC: Season 1 DVD. The DVD runs a whopping 1188 mins, with 27 episodes on 7 DVDs and features: Additional Scenes, Audio Commentary By Creator Josh Schwartz and Producer Stephanie Savage, The Featurettes: Casting The O.C., The Music Of The O.C. and The Real O.C. Featuring Behind the Scenes Footage and Cast and Crew Interviews,The Music Of The O.C.: A Screen Music Guide For Six Episodes, and More. Enter Now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of the The OC: Season 1 DVD.

When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk -- to the box office! Tinseltown's raging case of zombie fever continues with the love it-or-loathe it Dawn of the Dead remake. You'll be surprised by our resident gorehound's take! Plus, an explosive Critical Mass, responses to reader emails and the ever-vigilant CineSchlock-O-Rama's Most Wanted celebrates another capture! If you've missed any recent CineSchlock-O-Rama columns be sure catch up with CineSchlock's reviews of The Day After Tomorrow, Ginger Snaps Back, George Romero's Dawn of the Dead: Ultimate Edition, Evilspeak and Night of the Demons.

With literally thousands of DVD Reviews (over 9K reviews!) in the DVD Talk Review Database it's easy to miss some of the notable reviews written by our staff. Some notable reviews you may have missed: Happy Birthday to Me - one of our favorite slasher movies, Tom and Jerry: Spotlight Collection - with 40 classic shorts this 2-disc Spotlight Collection provides a lot of bang for the buck, Easy Rider (35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) - much more significant than it is 'good' , but it's the movie that made Nixon's Silent Majority decide that there was a thing called The Generation Gap, 911 in Plane Site - fascinating, horrifying, and extremely disturbing, Species: Special Edition - an entertaining sci-fi picture that still holds up fairly well nearly 10 years later, Leonard Bernstein - Young People's Concerts - a fantastic nine-disc set which compiles 25 of the educational programs created by the famous conductor/composer, with Bernstein's fascinating explanations about how music works illustrated by performances from the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, The Nutty Professor: SE - proof the French really did get it right, Jerry Lewis is just that good and Kids in the Hall: Complete Season Two - which is even better than the first season! Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

This week the First Annual TV on DVD Awards were given out (sponsored by Video Store Magazine, and with DVD Talk as a member of the judging panel), the winners include: I Love Lucy: The Complete Second Season for Best 1950s Series, Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1 for Best 1960s Series, Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Epic Series for Best 1970s Series, The Kids in the Hall: Complete Season One for Best 1980s Series, The Simpson's Season 4 for Best 1990s Series and Best Animated Series, 24 Season Two for Best 2000s Series, The Office for Best British TV Release, The World at War for Best Made-for-TV Documentary, The Ultimate Johnny Carson Collection for Best Compilation, Shogun for Best Miniseries or TV Movie and 24 Season Two: "Exposed Part One & Part Two" featurette for Best Special Feature and The Dick Van Dyke Show got an award for Best of Show. We'd also like to give a special 'Shout! Out' for Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series which surprisingly didn't win an award, but in our minds is the best TV on DVD release so far this year!

A good mix of DVDs announced this week, including one of the best comedies of the summer, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle on 1/4 and which will be released in both rated and unrated editions, The Commish - Season 1 on 11/16 - a treat for Michael Chiklis fans while they endure the long wait for the next season of The Shield, Sister Helen on 11/30 - a brilliant documentary which won the Sundance Directing Award, Open Water on 12/28 - the real life story of two divers stranded in shark infested waters, Twilight Zone: Season 1 on 12/28 - over 900 mins of pure genius television, The Intended on 12/28 - a unique and stylized epic rom IFC Films and Danish filmmaker Kristian Levring , Catwoman on 1/18 - Halle Berry in a cat suit, probably not reason enough to shell out $12 to see this disaster in theaters, but a DVD rental... that's another story and The Notebook on 2/8 - the best adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks book yet. Read our complete list of Upcoming DVDs.

More great clips this week including a number of clips for Arrested Development: cast and creators give an overview of the show, Jason Bateman discusses his role in the show, Portia De Rossi discusses her character on the show, Deleted scene from the episode Top Banana Deleted Scene from the episode Visiting Ours. From Buena Vista come clips of Where the Red Fern Grows, The Hole, A Wrinkle in Time and Hero. From Universal clips for Van Helsing and Dawn of the Dead. Finally from Tartan Video comes a clip for The Hillside Strangler.
 

This week we have a very special giveaway for the hilarious SCTV Vol. 2 [Review] - the classic comedy TV show with John Candy, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, and Dave Thomas . The SCTV Vol. 2 DVD features: Nine 90-minute episodes from the fourth season, Commentaries by Dave Thomas, Dick Blasucci, writer John McAndrew, Andrea Martin and Catherine O’Hara, SCTV Remembers, Pt. 2, Behind-The-Scenes featurettes and much more! Enter Now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of SCTV Vol. 2 we're giving away this week.
 

With literally thousands of DVD Reviews (over 9K reviews!) in the DVD Talk Review Database it's easy to miss some of the notable reviews written by our staff. Some notable reviews you may have missed: The Shawshank Redemption: SE - spotted on most top 10 lists, Frank Darabont's modern classic film finally gets a true SE release, Taxi: S1 - the last of the great '70s sitcoms finally makes a stop on DVD, Friday the 13th Box Set - eight 'Jason' films together with an interesting array of special features, , Fearless Vampire Killers - Roman Polanski's gentle horror comedy is simply one of the best Halloween movies ever, The Ren and Stimpy Show Uncut - one of the strangest animated series of all time comes to a 'director approved' DVD, Tanner '88 - a biting live action political satire from the legendary paring of filmmaker Robert Altman and cartoonist Garry Trudeau, Philadelphia: SE - landmark performances from Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington make this film one worth revisiting and The China Syndrome: SE - a genuinely chilling and intense thriller. Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

An ever-vigilant CineSchlock-O-Rama's Most Wanted celebrates a trio of captures! Chief among them -- with 129 WEEKS on the lamb -- is the naughty-teens-conjure-the-devil classick Night of the Demons!!! Followed close behind by the undersung creature features Sssssss and Orca.
 

This week's notable DVDs starts off with one of the best films you've probably never seen: The Return [Review] - Andrei Zvyagintsev brilliant debut film is simply astounding and definitely one of the best films of the year, Ed Wood:SE [Review] - one of the most delayed special editions finally comes to DVD and it's one of Tim Burton's best, Greg the Bunny [Review] - an extremely funny but canceled TV show that mixes stuffed animals with Seth Green, Sarah Silverman and Eugene Levy with great result, Arrested Development: S1 [Review] - as good as you've heard, this show resurrects the sitcom and morphs it into something remarkable, SCTV 2 [Review] - a great set for fans of the eccentric sketch comedy show, Van Helsing [Review] - it's big, bad, way too long and a complete mess but somehow we're still drawn to this trainwreck of a movie, Ultimate Oliver Stone Collection - Warner Bros. brings together the work of one of the most interesting American Directors into a must own collection. Read our Complete List of Upcoming DVDs for more great DVDs out this week, and visit our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

This week we have a very special giveaway from Razor Digital Entertainment for the Reality Unleashed DVD. Reality Unleashed brings together all your favorite Reality TV stars (including Trishelle, Sarah, Alton and Irulan, Lex and Erika) for an evening of no-holds-barred talk where no subject is 'off the table'. Reality Unleashed gives you a glimpse into what really goes on behind the scenes of your favorite reality TV Shows. The Reality Unleashed DVD features: A feature-length Audio Commentary with director Scott Zakarin and producer Rich Tackenberg, Behind-the-Scenes Featurette When Editors Go Wild, Tips To Get On Reality Shows, Deleted Scenes and more. Enter Now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of the Reality Unleashed DVD.

This week, The DVD Savant has reviews of Graveyard of Honor - Kinji Fukasaku's ragged Yakuza biography is hailed as a genre highlight, but its charm escaped Savant entirely, The Wackiest Ship in the Army - Jack Lemmon teams with Ricky Nelson for an acceptably bland war comedy with some good sailing scenes, Hardcore - Paul Schrader's provocative The Searchers remake will be ugly, outrageous, tame, debatable or simplistic depending on one's POV and Eyes Without a Face -the first Georges Franju film to hit DVD is a horror masterpiece in a category of its own, so great that ... you know, Savant could fill the entire newsletter with subjective superlatives for this one. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Apocalyptic auteur Roland Emmerich teams with Mama Nature to clobber mankind in The Day After Tomorrow -- a doomsday delight! Canada's tongue-wagging werebabe trilogy whimpers to a close with Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning. Plus, an all-new Critical Mass feature, responses to reader emails and the ever-vigilant CineSchlock-O-Rama's Most Wanted celebrates three captures!
 

A number of great clips this week including: Several from the hilarious TV series Greg The Bunny: Greg The Bunny and Seth Green, friends forever!, , Warren Demontague chats about his co star Seth Green, Eugene Levy talks puppets and Warren Demontague chats Eugene Levy and Seth Green discusses his initial draw to the show. We also have clips from Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11:- Secret Service confront Michael Moore, "Do you think they could be a terrorist", and Airport security horror story, SCTV 2: CCCP, Zontar Broadcast and Doorway to Hell. Also DVD trailers for 5ive Days to Midnight and Van Helsing.

A good mix of DVDs announced this week, including: The Village on 1/11/05 - M. Night Shyamalan's latest thriller got mixed reviews in theaters, but we're expecting great things from the DVD, The Simpsons: Season 5 on 12/21 - it's hard to think of another series that delivers as consistently over the years than The Simpsons, Wicker Park on 12/28 - Josh Hartnett stars in a thriller of mistaken identity... or is it? De-Lovely on 12/21 - Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd star in a film about the life of Cole Porter, Everyday People on 1/11/04 - a hidden gem from HBO that you should defiantly seek out, Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 3 on 1/18/05 - Larry David and HBO go together like 'milk and coffee', what a concept! Finally, Epitaph has announced the release of 3 classic Eddie Izzard DVDs (never before released in the US) on 1/9/05 - Eddie Izzard: Glorious, Definite Article and Unrepeatable. Read our complete list of Upcoming DVDs.

DVDs from The Criterion Collection have snagged DVD Talk's Highest Rating more than many other studios combined! This week DeepDiscountDVD.com has a special coupon for Criterion and Home Vision DVDs: Get 5% off Criterion and Home Vision DVDs when you use the Coupon Code CRITERION. With DeepDiscountDVD.com already super low prices and free shipping this coupon can make for some pretty good deals. Be sure to jump on this one as the coupon expires on 10/15. If you're looking for some suggestions on what to buy check out DVD Talk reviews of All Criterion and Home Vision DVDs.
 

Another week of Notable DVDs packed with TV on DVD including: The Wire: S1 [Review] - one of HBO's best written series, it's hard to find a show that packs more in one hour in television, Stephen King: Kingdom Hospital [Review] - the master of horror takes on remaking Lars Von Trier’s spook mini-series, the result is something worth watching, 5ive Days to Midnight - a great thrilling mini-series from the Sci-Fi channel, CSI: S4 [Review] - a fantastic season of one of the best detective shows ever on TV, The Day After Tomorrow [Review] - a mega budgeted disaster flick whose effects make up for the more than ridiculous story and Ren & Stimpy: S1&2 - the long awaited DVD release for one of the most wonderfully insane animated series. Other notable DVDs out this week are: Breakin All the Rules, Dream On: S1&2, I'm Not Scared, MTV Punk'd: S2, Raising Helen, andTaxi: S1. Read our Complete List of Upcoming DVDs for more great DVDs out this week, and visit our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

It's never easy for a filmmaker to tackle a subject like religion. No matter what point of view taken, controversy will be soon to follow. Of course, if the movie is well-made, controversy only helps. Saved!, the first feature film from writer/director Brian Dannelly, is that kind of movie. A teen-movie take on faith, belief and human nature, starring a young, talented ensemble cast, connected with many people, and should reach an even wider audience now that it's being released on a feature-packed DVD. DVD Talk writer Francis Rizzo III sat down with Dannelly to chat about Saved!, DVDs and the importance of an exclamation point! Read the complete interview.

Another big week for DVD, including the release of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 [Review] - a phenomenal and important movie that's worth seeing no matter your political affiliation, Aladdin: Special Edition [Review] - one of Disney's most popular animated films finally comes to a fantastic looking and sounding DVD, Born Rich [Review] [Interview] - Jamie Johnsons' inside look at what it's like to be born filthy rich, The Shawshank Redemption: Special Edition - a feature packed special edition upgrade to one of the most beloved films, Saved! [Review] - a fantasticly dark and biting comedy that pulls no punches. Other notable DVDs this week include: The Five Obstructions, Friday the 13th, Tanner '88 [Review] and Untouchables: SE. Read our Complete List of Upcoming DVDs for more great DVDs out this week, and visit our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.