It's nigh upon us! San Diego Comic-Con International. The nation's largest pop-culture conclave and Hollywood's one-stop buzz builder due to the irresistible allure of more than 80,000 geeks in one locale. Every major studio will be there in force and, in a way, so will YOU thanks to DVD Talk columnist G. Noel Gross. Find out what's in store in this podcast preview of the 4-day geekfest (July 14-17). Listen using our Online DVD Talk Radio Player or download the complete schlockcast (23 mins, 14 mb). Attending Comic-Con? Join our DVD Talk Roundtable on Friday, July 15.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Point Blank - John Boorman makes a gangland revenge tale with a cookbook from Antonioni; Sun Seekers - a first-hand look at Soviet-bloc propaganda, this gritty socialist epic about mining uranium for atom bombs is the flip side of American Cold War hysteria; Clash by Night - Fritz Lang and Clifford Odets dig into marital discord in the lower classes; Dillinger - this impoverished gangster movie isn't noir but has been included in Warners' boxed set; Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s - Kino Video and Bret Wood collect 24 top short subjects of the experimental cinema era; The Good Father - Anthony Hopkins almost goes too far looking for revenge against the female of the species, in this thoughtful English drama; (Space Monster) Dogora - an enormous space amoeba descends from the clouds to loot the world of a precious resource in this obscure terror from Toho studios. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

We're excited to announce the launch of a new feature at DVD Talk Stuart's Movie Book Round-Up with DVD Talk writer and film historian Stuart Galbraith IV. In this installment of the Book Round-Up Stuart takes a look at Who the Hell's In It? by Peter Bogdanovich - although the director of The Last Picture Show, Saint Jack, and They All Laughed has of late been reduced to lurid TV biopics, as a writer Bogdanovich is still near the very top of an ever-growing heap; The John Wayne Filmography by Fred Landesman - expensive but handsomely done work offers meaty, alphabetized entries on the actor's 170+ films; Memoirs of a Film Cameraman: A Life Through the Lens by Alan Hume with Gareth Owen - cinematographer Hume's career is certainly worthy of a book length study; Foreign Films in America: A History by Kerry Segrave - a long-overdue subject for serious study, this work traces the history of foreign films in the American market, from the early silent era to the present day. Read Stuart's Movie Book Round-Up now.

Following the cancellation of the hit series Spenser: For Hire ABC produced four full-length movies starring Robert Urich and Avery Brooks. Now these four films are together in Spenser: The Movie Collection from Rykodisc. This week's Clip of The Week is from the collection - a clip from the film Ceremony (get more info on the collection here). Other clips this week include peeks at: Mindhunters, Scary Movie 3.5: The Unrated Cut, In My Country, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, Man of The House with the DVD feature clip Cheer Camp. Be sure to catch past week's clips in our newly relaunched DVD Talk TV.

Some good notable DVD releases this week considering we're just past a holiday weekend including: Prozac Nation [Review] - a notable film that never got a US theatrical release with a strong performance by Christina Ricci; Bride & Prejudice [Review] - Bend it Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha brings Jane Austen's classic to Bollywood with the absolutely stunning Aishwarya Rai; Fantastic Four: The Classic Series [Review] - a much more satisfying experience than the film in theaters; Warner Bros. Film Noir Classics 2 [Review] - another strong noir offering which includes Narrow Margin a film not to miss. Other notable DVDs this week include:The Good Father [Review], In My Country, Monk: S3 and Roughnecks Complete [Review]. 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.

This week we have a very special giveaway from Capital Entertainment for the DVD release of Bad Girls: The Complete First Season. If you're a fan of gritty, hard edge television like HBO's OZ you won't want to miss Bad Girls - the acclaimed British television series available on DVD for the first time in America. Enter now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of Bad Girls: The Complete First Season DVD we're giving away this week.
 

With literally thousands of DVD Reviews (over 12,300 reviews!) in the DVD Talk Review Database it's easy to miss some of the notable reviews written by our staff. Recent DVD Reviews include: Undeclared - The Complete Series - an absolute joy of a TV series, full of painful memories, fond nostalgia, a warm-hearted sense of honest humor, and an almost palpable sense of sweetness; Slim Susie - a delirious mix of drugs, kinky sex, and a hefty dose of Scandinavian style off-beat action; Footballers' Wive$ - The Complete First Season - killer kitsch mixed with corrupt camp at its most memorable, a highly recommended romp; Drums Along the Mohawk - a magnificent film and among the handful that truly can be considered timeless; Vintage Mickey - who could have believed that one teeny little mouse on a steamboat would lead to an empire like Disney's; Alone in the Dark - so breathtakingly awful it may be one of the worst films made in the past few years. Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

We have another interesting installment of Anime Talk for you this week. A lot of excellent anime, (along with some not so hot titles) have been released recently, and Anime Talk has capsule reviews of them all. From the exciting Ninja Scroll to the rather tepid Cybuster we'll help you decide which titles to snag and which ones to pass by. We also have a short notice about one of the most expensive anime titles ever produced, Samurai 7, and Don Houston has his Best and Worst list. In case you missed them, you can also read Chris Tribbey and John Sinnott's best and worst lists, as well as out review of Rock and Rule and the Anime Talk guide to Dragon Ball.

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