More great reviews this week from DVD Savant including: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - new DVD label NoShame gives us an Oscar-winning three-part import favorite, Andrzej Wajda, Three War Films - from Criterion comes terrific, creative films backed up with insightful interview docus about their making and the history behind them, Leaves from Satan's Book - Carl Dreyer's second silent film is a drawn-out morality tale in four parts, The Corporation - a clear-headed and non-sarcastic attack on the institution of The Corporation, The Professionals (Special Edition) - Richard Brooks' all-pro Western adventure is really about American know-how betrayed by American power, More - Barbet Schroeder's first feature is a realistic appraisal of the youth drug culture in Europe in 1969, Clonus (Parts, the Clonus Horror) - A modest and well-organized paranoid thriller curbed somewhat by pedestrian acting and direction. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

This week we have a special giveaway from Home Vision Entertainment to celebrate the highly anticipated DVD release of Hanzo: Razor Box Set. This box set includes the legendary 1970s trilogy based on Kazuo Koike’s classic mangas, and starring Shintaro Katsu (Zatoichi) as Hanzo complete and uncut. One grand prize winner will win all 17 DVD of Home Vision Entertainment's Zatoichi series and four runner ups will each win Zatoichi 18: Zatoichi and the Fugitives. If you love great Samurai Flicks you won't want to miss this giveaway. Enter now for your chance to win.

An interesting mix of notable DVDs this week including: Primer [Review] - an 'indie' film in every sense of the word, this film takes a fresh look at time travel and the impact on relationships, Birth [Review] - Nicole Kidman at her best in a very deliberate, challenging and often creepy film, Errol Flynn Collection [Review] - the original action hero is back on a fantastic 5 film box set including a bonus 6 disc with a swashbuckling feature length documentary, Riding the Bullet [Review] - from e-book to DVD this Stephen King thriller has had a long journey, but nowhere near as long as the main character of the film, Miracles: The Complete Series [Review] - the stepchild of The Exorcist and X-Files this series never got a chance on TV and now in it's full 13 episodes it shines on DVD. Other notable DVDs this week include: Dynasty: S1, Hanzo: The Razor [Review] and House of Flying Daggers. Read our List of Top Upcoming DVDs for more great DVDs out this week, visit our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

Some of the greatest stories told in movies are the ones that just happen true, such is the case with Sunset Story a truly touching documentary. Take a peek at Sunset Story on of this week's clips of the week. Also this week we have clips from two VH1 Storyteller DVDs: Natalie Merchant performing "Carnival" and Alanis Morissette performing "You Learn" as well as clips from Bad Education [Review] including: a clip from the film and the making of Bad Education.

Writer/Director/Producer/Editor/Composer Shane Carruth did something as seemingly impossible as time travel - he made a great movie for only $7,000. Primer's micro budget and the 'questionable film making' advice from many of the people around him, never stood in the way of Carruth's drive to make his film. The results have been spectacular, Primer took both the Grand Jury Prize and the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and now has it's getting a special edition DVD release. DVD Talk Editor Geoffrey Kleinman sat down with Shane Carruth to talk about the DVD release for Primer. Carruth talks about what inspired him to make Primer, how he managed to make such a complex and interesting film with so little money and what the connection is between Primer and All The President's Men. Download the complete audio interview Shane Carruth or listen live online with our DVD Talk Radio Player. Also be sure to check out DVD Talk Radio for interviews and other great audio content including recent interviews with: James L. Brooks, Brett Ratner and Brad Bird.

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