On our July DVD Talk TV Segment on ABC TV's AM Northwest we took a look at 4 Notable DVDs: Hellboy - another thrilling film by Guillermo del Toro with a fantastic performance from Ron Perlman, The Butterfly Effect - a time bending thriller that delivers on a DVD with the much harsher original ending, How's Your News? - a charming documentary that takes a unique look at the disabled and their view of America, and Warner Bros. Film Noir Collection including Out of the Past, The Asphalt Jungle, The Set-Up and Gun Crazy - featuring audio commentary from our own DVD Savant! Watch this show (which runs about 6 mins) in Windows Media High Bandwidth or Low Bandwidth. Also be sure to catch past month's shows.

This week the DVD Savant has reviews of The Golden Coach, French Cancan, Elena and Her Men - Criterion assembles a triple bill of Jean Renoir delights from the 1950s , Un, deux, trois soleil - Bertrand Blier whips up a completely weird (and sometimes disturbing) piece of Theater of the Absurd set in a Marseilles housing project, Trailer Trash & Horror on 42nd Street - Two independent micro-labels are hawking intriguingly exploitative collections of coming attractions from the pulp-heavy 1960s and 1970s, Human Resources - a labor-management drama French-style, and two from Claude Chabrol Masques - Chabrol's Hitchcockian thriller is really his own character-driven creation and Story of Women - Chabrol's chilling true story of occupied France. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

A ton of great clips this week including: Hellboy [Review] with a look at the DVD Trailer, a storyboard featurette, creating the Hellboy Costume and a look at the special effects. Another comic book based series Broken Saints has had a great run online, now there's a Broken Saints DVD trailer that gives a good peek at the fall DVD release. Buena Vista Home Video has sent along sneak peek clips from some of their upcoming DVDs: Project Greenlight: The Complete Second Season [Review], Hildago, The Ladykillers and The Alamo. Finally, from Palm Pictures comes a clip of the hidden gem Millennium Mambo [Review as well as a peek at some of their upcoming titles: Tom Dowd and the Language of Music and Springtime in a Small Town.

A ton of great DVDs announced this week including: one of the best films of 2004 - Super Size Me on 9/28 - a dark and funny documentary that may make you skip your next trip to Mickey D's, Coffee And Cigarettes on 9/21 - Jim Jarmusch returns to his indie roots in a film worth checking out, Dead Leaves on 9/28 - Manga turns the anime world upside down with a series so unique it defies classification, The Ren & Stimpy Show: The First And Second Seasons - Uncut on 10/12 - sick and hilarious, Taxi: The Complete First Season on 10/12 - the TV vaults continue to open and great TV on DVD emerges, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - The Complete Fourth Season on 10/12 - one of the best crime shows on TV keeps getting better and better, Salem's Lot: The Miniseries on 10/12 - Rob Lowe, Donald Sutherland, Samantha Mathis, James Cromwell and Rutger Hauer all without commercials, SCTV: Volume 2 on 10/19 - the boys (and girls) from the great white north are back for more, 21 Jump Street: The Complete First Season on 10/26 - Johnny Depp as a teen heartthrob, who would have know the career he had ahead of him, Traffic: The Miniseries - Director's Cut on 11/2- the USA Miniseries based on a hit feature movie, based on a UK miniseries, based on some really bad guys and The Commish: Season One on 11/16 - Michael Chiklis never disappoints. Read our complete list of Upcoming DVDs.

An eclectic mix of notable DVDs this week including: Showgirls VIP Edition [Review] - one of the best box sets you'll ever see for a schlocky movie, Hellboy [Review] - one of the more enjoyable comic-book-to-movie adaptations with very strong performances, Devil's Backbone : SE [Review] - Guillermo del Toro's quiet, intricately woven ghost story on a fantastic DVD, Pennies From Heaven - Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters in an enjoyably dark musical comedy, Nero Wolfe: Season 1 [Review] - a series which is almost the definitive 'hidden gem' and one you should not miss, Sledgehammer: Season 1 [Review] - an eighties screwball comedy series that is as funny now as when it originally aired, V: Complete TV Series [Review] - the popular mini-series turned TV series is now finally on DVD, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex [Review] - a great series that is destine to be on a lot of people’s top ten lists for this year and Living Hell [Review] - a strong debut from Subversive Cinema (a spin off of the legendary Scarecrow Video) leaves us eager to see what they put out next. 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.

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