Every year 20,000+ unique -- and we do mean unique -- individuals invade Atlanta for Dragon*Con, America's largest SF and popular arts convention. With nearly 1000 photos of celebrities, costumers, and acts that defy description, DVD Talk writer das Monkey foolishly attempts to capture all four days of insanity in this detailed report and barely escapes with his life. This year's highlights: Space Ghost, robot battles, Ernie Hudson, sword fighting, and the crew of a little ship that could named Serenity. Oh ... did we mention the scantily clad women?
 

This week, The DVD Savant has reviews of La Dolce Vita - Fellini's biggest and most famous movie, The Wrong Man - Alfred Hitchcock blends docu realism, noirish defeatism and a religious miracle in this excellent but unloved, offbeat thriller, Come Back, Little Sheba - Shirley Booth earns her best actress Oscar in this excellent adaptation of William Inge's play, Lady Terminator - Indonesian 'exploitica' from Mondo Macabro, with a resurrected sea goddess blowing away cops by the dozen and The Black Orchid - It sounds and begins like a murder mystery but turns into a domestic drama. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

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Another amazing week for DVD: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind [Interview] [Review] - a phenomenal movie about memory, relationships and loss, from the mind of Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry, Super Size Me [Interview] - If this movie doesn't change your view of Fast Food, nothing will, one of the best films of the year! Nothing But a Man [Review] - brilliant is not a word to be taken lightly, but in the case of this film brilliant barely begins to scratch the surface, Rivers & Tides [Review] - a unique look at an artist who 'paints' with nature. Other notable releases this week include: The Alamo, Crank Yankers: S1, Footloose: SE [Review], Hunting of the President [Review], Thriller: A Cruel Picture [Review] and Walking Tall [Review] 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.

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More great DVD announcements this week including: Dodgeball on 12/7 - Ben Stiller's surprisingly funny comedy about the classic school yard game gone pro, Open Water on 12/28 - a summer sleeper that makes Jaws look like a goldfish, Napoleon Dynamite on 12/21 - insanely great, we're talkin' Royal Tenenbaums great, Garden State on 12/28 - perhaps the smartest and hippest movie of the summer, The Thunderbirds on 12/21 - it tanked at the box office, perhaps they should have actually involved Gerry Anderson in the live action remake, Danny Deckchair on 12/21 - a quirky film about a man with a deck chair, lots of balloons and a dream, Two Brothers on 12/21 - a charming and overlooked film from the director of The Bear. Read our complete list of Upcoming DVDs.

The concept is simple: eat three meals a day for one month at McDonalds - if they don't serve it over the counter at McDonalds, you can't eat it, and if you're ever asked to 'Super Size' a meal, you have to say yes. The result is Super Size Me a fascinating look at our relationship with fast food, and exactly what kind of an effect it has on us. Super Size Me is one of those amazing films with the power to change the way you see things around you. It may not completely stop you from your planned trip to the local fast food outlet, but it'll definitely make you stop and think about what you eat and what it can do to your body. DVD Talk Editor Geoffrey Kleinman had an opportunity to sit down with filmmaker Morgan Spurlock to talk about Super Size Me, how the idea got started, and exactly how he lost all that weight after the cameras stopped rolling. Read our complete interview plus two tasty recipes from Morgan's Vegan Chef girlfriend Alex Jamieson.

While the rest of fandom wets their Wookie Underoos over a certain other bodacious box set, CineSchlockers are drooling over Anchor Bay's equally astonishing achievement -- Dawn of the Dead: Ultimate Edition!!! In fact, the FOUR disc ode to George Romero's zombified treatise on conspicuous consumption easily earns DVD Talk's highest rating! Plus, responses to reader emails and the ever-vigilant CineSchlock-O-Rama's Most Wanted.
 

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