Even with the release of his book The DVD Savant has still been hard at work with another great bunch of reviews including: The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection - a giant gift box with "special Christmas gift" written all over it, A Farewell to Arms - this Pre-Code weepie reinstates about ten minutes of material from old TV showings, and comes off as a very good old-fashioned romantic tragedy, Once Upon A Time in Mexico - Superbit - Robert Rodriguez can seemingly do every job in movies except punch out the sprocket holes, but this flashy action extravaganza is cynical and empty, The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (The Box Set) - Kinji Fukasaku's gory epic marked the end of the formal Yakuza genre in Japan, and it's a complicated saga of four decades of gang warfare in Hiroshima after WW2, Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

We're excited to announce that DVD Talk will be a regular contributor to G4/TechTV's The Screen Savers (Every Tuesday at 4pm PST). On this week's segment DVD Talk reviewer Kim Morgan took a look at several Notable DVDs including: The Ultimate Matrix Collection - 10 Discs, 35 hours, 100 new featurettes and one week of your life, The Bourne Supremacy - the return of big car chases makes us pine for The French Connection, Wild at Heart - behind the scenes stuff with David Lynch, pinch us we're dreaming and Gargoyles: The Complete First Season - great anime you should run out and buy and more. Watch this show (which runs about 6 mins) in Windows Media High Bandwidth. Also watch past DVD Talk TV segments.

The cold hard truth is that most DVD fans didn't wait till the Holiday season to buy some this year's top DVDs. So while giving someone The Star Wars Trilogy might be a nice idea, odds are they might already have it. Unfortunately the same goes for titles like Shrek 2, Alias and 24. But don't fret. DVD Talk is here to help with some quick and easy holiday DVD gift ideas that are sure to go over well including TV on DVD, High Impact Box Sets, Hidden Gems, Great Classics , Naughty DVDs for Those Who Have Been Nice , Gifts for Your Region Free Friends and ideas for you if you Just Won The Lottery or Are Independently Wealthy. Check out our complete Holiday DVD Gift Guide now .

An absolutely fantastic week for DVDs including: Bourne Supremacy [Review] - Matt Damon an action star? Stranger things have happened, but this worthy Borne Sequel is definitely worth checking out, Carnivale: S1 [Review] - HBO's Lynchian series is even better the second time around, Dodgeball [Review] - a simple pleasure, a comedy that delivers on many levels, M: Criterion [Review] - a breath taking restoration, and we've got the pictures to prove it, Maria Full of Grace [Review] - you owe it to yourself to watch raising star Catalina Sandino Moreno in this simple and perfect character driven story, Wild at Heart [Review] - 'Lulaaaaaaa!' one of David Lynch's classics comes to a Special Edition DVD, 24: S3 - Jack's back but we still watch it for Elisha Cuthbert, and Ultimate Matrix Collection [Review] - Whoa! We're blown away by one of the best DVD Collections of the year. 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.

We're extremely excited to announce the publication of the first DVD Savant book, entitled DVD Savant: A Review Resource Book. The book (available now) contains some of the best from over 1370 columns and reviews written by The DVD Savant including the extraordinarily well regarded piece on The Good, The Bad and The Ugly DVD. Read more about this new book from the Savant himself. Buy DVD Savant: A Review Resource Book now at Amazon.com, Barns and Noble or Booksamillion.com.  
 

If you think you know the whole story about Hellboy, think again. The road from comic book to screen for this uncommon hero was a lot longer and complicated that you might imagine. Peter Briggs knows the story all too well. In 1997 Peter Briggs penned the first script for Hellboy and started what would become a wild ride for the project. DVD Talk writer Joshua Zyber sat down with Peter Briggs to talk about his experience with Hellboy, what exactly didn't make it on to the DVD and what it's really like being a screenwriter. Read our complete interview with Peter Briggs.  
 

"Whoa!" That's one of many words you might use to describe Warner's exhaustive film-school treatment of the Matrix trilogy in its new 10-disc Ultimate Matrix Collection. And even if you use four-letter words when you talk about the seminal first film's sequels, you may not be able to resist the extreme coolness of this comprehensive DVD behemoth, which plugs you in to a brand-new visual presentation of the first film and assembles a vast array of probing special features. And speaking of "comprehensive," DVD Talk boasts the Web's most detailed and informative review of the Ultimate Matrix Collection. We peered into all its nooks and crannies and came away stunned by depth of attention paid to that uniquely innovative sci-fi techno wire-fu cerebro-noir saga called The Matrix. Read our review for The Ultimate Matrix Collection in the DVD Talk Review Database now with over 10,300 reviews!

If you immediately think of The Golden Girls whenever you hear Betty White's name then you're not alone. She honors her golden period and isn't afraid to say so. DVD Talk Writer, Danielle Henbest had the opportunity to interview Betty White at a recent roundtable for the DVD Release of The Golden Girls: Season One [Review]. In the interview, Betty White, talks about the rumors of a Golden Girls reunion, why she's picked edgy roles (like the dark role she had in Lake Placid) and what it was really like on the set of Golden Girls. If you think Betty White is the naive St. Olaf blonde native then think again. This woman won't let her Emmys collect dust any time soon. Read our complete interview.

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