After fifteen years of working with, filming and hanging out with the Flaming Lips, documentary filmmaker Bradley Beesley has assembled one of the most intimate and unique looks at a rock band ever to hit the screen. The Fearless Freaks - The Wondrously Improbably Story of The Flaming Lips [Review] pulls back the curtain and gives you a look at the real lives and people behind one the most creative and interesting bands performing today. In addition to speaking with Bradley Beesly about The Fearless Freaks we also make sure to cover Okie Noodling [Review], Bradley's previous documentary about bare-handed catfishing. Listen to the complete interview with Bradley Beesley using our Online DVD Talk Radio Player or Download the complete interview (12min 6MB). Also be sure to listen to our recent interviews on DVD Talk Radio with Wildboyz Chris Pontius, John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants, Primer Director Shane Carruth, James L. Brooks, and The Incredibles Director Brad Bird.

More great reviews this week from DVD Savant including: The Big Red One - The Reconstruction - Critic Richard Schickel finishes the movie that Lorimar took away from Sam Fuller 25 years ago; The Plot Against Harry - a wonderful oddball comedy released in 1989-90 after sitting on the shelf for twenty years; Divorce Italian Style - Criterion makes a major cultural event out of Pietro Germi's black comedy about a Sicilian who has no choice but to murder his wife; Do You Remember Dolly Bell? - Emir Kusturica tells an odd tale of teens growing up in the depressed economy of Communist Yugoslavia, with the same interests and desires as western kids; Punishment Park - a notorious radical film that invents a Nixon-initiated concentration camp / killing ground for subversive draft evaders and other threats to the national security; The Entity - it's supernatural sex, with lots of hot stuff! Excellent acting from Barbara Hershey keeps this exploitative psychic drama about an ectoplasmic rapist from becoming a major insult. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Click over to Anime Talk for reviews of some of the latest anime DVDs. This week we have the Appleseed disc covered, as well as a few new series: the strange but funny Midori Days, the intriguing Madlax, and Kyo Kara Maoh, a fantasy series with a twist. Then, have you ever wondered just who the reviewers who write this column are and how they got interested in anime? Well, you won't have to stay up nights pondering those questions after reading this week's feature. We have brief biographies of all three reviewers, as well as the bargain diva, Holly. In addition, we also have even more DVD reviews, the best anime deals and a list of all of the anime DVDs that will be released in the next couple of weeks. Be sure to check out our past columns for a guide to Dragon Ball (in all its incarnations) and our two part coverage of Anime Overdose 2005.

This week we have a very special giveaway from Capital Entertainment for Jamie's Kitchen - a five-part series which follows Jamie Oliver (a.k.a. The Naked Chef) as he attempts to open his first restaurant in London's East End using 15 unemployed, underprivileged youngsters to work as chefs in the kitchen. Jamie's Kitchen follows his proteges and their misadventures as they fight against time and the odds to actually get their restaurant up and running. Jamie's Kitchen is presented as two-disc DVD set including: the five -part series and two additional never-aired episodes following-up on the cast. Enter Now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of the Jamie's Kitchen DVD.

A number of good notable DVDs this week including: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection [Review] - Wes Anderson's latest gets a stellar treatment from Criterion with notable coverage of the music of David Bowie (sung in Portuguese) and composer Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo; Controversial Classics - 7 'controversial' films from the Warner Bros. most notably: Blackboard Jungle, A Face in The Crowd and Bad Day at Black Rock [Review]; In Good Company - Dennis Quaid is fantastic in a sweet a comedic drama from American Pie Director Paul Weitz, also Scarlett Johansson is reason enough to see any film; Longest Yard - the Burt Reynolds classic gets a nice re-release to tie in with the theatrical remake; Entourage - S1 [Review] - HBO hits another home run with a unique look at fame and those who 'hang on' to it. Other notable DVDs out this week include: Assault on Precinct 13, Hoop Dreams - Criterion [Review] and Jamie's Kitchen. 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.

Who's hot? You are if, like DVD Talk columnist G. Noel Gross, you suffered through all six of Paris Hilton's podcasts peddling the latter-day scream siren's House of Wax remake. Don't think you could bear such a 40-minute brain drain? Fear not, Noel's self-sacrifice is once again offered for your amusement. But if you're hankering for something decidedly more on the sublime side of vapid -- may we humbly suggest our very own DVD Talk Radio?

On this installment of the DVD Talk Radio Show we talk to Chris Pontius star of MTVs popular series Wildboyz. Now with the second season of Wildboyz out on DVD, viewers can see a lot more of the crazy antics of Chris Pontius and fellow sidekick and Jackass alumni Steve-O with an entire disc of bonus features featuring a ton of stuff which was too extreme for MTV to air. Listen to the complete interview with Chris Pontius using our Online DVD Talk Radio Player or Download the complete audio interview (12min 6MB). Also be sure to listen to our recent interviews on DVD Talk Radio with John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants, Primer Director Shane Carruth, James L. Brooks, and The Incredibles Director Brad Bird.

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