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.

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