This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Let's Go with Pancho Villa - This 1935 Mexican classic is a literate and action-filled story filmed less than twenty years after the actual events; A Guide for the Married Man - Gene Kelly directed this incredibly tasteless comedy; The Mysterious Lady - a film from the Garbo Silents collection; Garbo - Kevin Brownlow's docu of the life and career of Greta Garbo ; The Innocents - Jack Clayton's horror classic gets shoved in with the library product instead of given a Studio Classics nod of approval; Empire Falls - HBO's big-scale miniseries compresses three main plots and a dozen related subplots into three hours; Vincent & Theo - Robert Altman's biographical look at the brother's Van Gogh; House on Haunted Hill - Another colorized eyesore from Legend and Fox. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

On our latest episode of DVD Talk Radio, DVD Talk Editor Geoffrey Kleinman sits down at talks with Grover Crisp (Vice President of Asset Management and Film Restoration at Sony Pictures) - the person in charge of restoring Sam Peckinpah's classic film Major Dundee on to DVD. Major Dundee was one of Peckinpah's first major big budget studio films, and it was taken out of his hands and cut considerably by the studio. The film has now been restored to a longer extended version including many scenes which were considered 'lost'. We speak with Grover Crisp about the restoration of Major Dundee including the bold and impressive move to do a completely new and improved score for the film. Listen to our interview with Grover Crisp using our Online DVD Talk Radio Player or Download the complete interview with Grover Crisp (21 min 15MB). Also be sure to listen to our recent interviews on DVD Talk Radio with Harry Reems, Peter Weir, Chan-Wook Park, Frank Miller and Errol Morris.

If you haven't been paying attention to some of the amazing international DVDs getting released, you're truly missing out. We continue to increase our coverage of these films in the in the DVD Talk Review Database. Recent International DVD Reviews include: The Bow (Region 3) - Kim Ki-duk's follow up to 3-Iron is simply amazing and should not be missed; Crying Fist (Region 3) - an enjoyable film that combines action and drama with two good lead performances; Survive Style +5 - a completely off the wall and completely unique black comedy that moves at an amazing pace; Initial D - the popular Manga and Anime series makes the leap to the live action big screen, Antarctic Journal (Region 3) - an intelligent movie that is a true gem on several levels; Head-On (Region 2) - the definitive English friendly version of a fantastic film; Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatre - Alain Chabat's adaptation of the famous comic character is more than exciting and once again gorgeous-looking Monica Bellucci is once again bound to mesmerize with her beauty. Find these and many more in the DVD Talk Review Database. Also if you're looking for a good Region-Free DVD player we recommend the Oppo OPDV971H [Review]

He's baaaaaaaaacccckkk. That's right Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead 2 are back on DVD in Evil Dead 2: The Book of The Dead 2 - Special Divimax Series Edition. This week we have several clips from the new edition of Evil Dead 2 including: A Look at Sam Raimi's Storyboards, A Very Dangerous Stunt, Farewell to Arms and Evil Ed's Lost Scene. Also this week we have an exclusive clip from Major Dundee: Extended Edition: a deleted fight scene from the film. Finally we have a few clips from the excellent Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story including: Ring of Fire Intro, The Weigh In, Accounts of the Onslaught and Benny Peret Is Dead. Be sure to catch past week's clips at DVD Talk TV.

Another fantastic week of notable DVDs including: the long awaited restoration of the Sam Peckinpah classic western Major Dundee: Extended Edition [Review]; It's All Gone Pete Tong [Review] - this festival favorite is truly a hidden gem; Desperate Housewives: S1 [Review] - another great TV on DVD release that is a guilty pleasure; Mallrats X [Review] - with an extended version that adds almost a half hour to the film; Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story [Review] - a documentary which is one of the year's most pleasant surprises. Other notable DVDs out this week include: Battlestar Galactica: S1, Bob Dylan - No Direction Home, From the Earth to the Moon: SE [Review], Heathcliff [Review], Inside Deep Throat [Review], The Longest Yard [Review] and The Outsiders: The Complete Novel [Review and Coverage of The DVD Launch]. 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.

Jamie Oliver has built a pretty incredible reputation for himself with his successful series Oliver's Twist and Jamie's Kitchen. Now the second volume of Oliver's Twist comes to DVD from Capital Entertainment featuring all 15 complete episodes from Jamie's hit TV show - whether making a classic Irish Dish, an authentic Brazilian feijoada or creating something new from an old favorite Jamie Oliver shows you how to shop for the freshest most flavorful ingredients and then transform them into delicious dishes. Enter now for your chance to win one of 5 Oliver Twist 2 DVDs we're giving away this week.

DVD Empire is running an extremely cool promo: The Magic 8 Ball Game. Basically here's how it works: After you place an order, you'll get an opportunity to "Shake the Magic 8 Ball which will give you up to a $5 instant savings on your order. Then, when your order arrives you'll get a Magic 8 Ball scratcher with another chance at winning prizes (including iPods, PSPs and a Big Screen TV). This promo won't last long so be sure to give it a shake. Also note that Empire is running this promo on their AdultDVDEmpire site as well.

Now with over 13,000 DVD reviews in the DVD Talk Review Database, it's easy to overlook some of the great reviews. Recent DVD Reviews include: Creature Comforts: S1 - another top-notch effort from the fine folks at Aardman Animation; Kicking & Screaming - a fun family movie starring one of the funniest actors working; Over The Edge - not widely seen or frequently discussed, but it deserves to be; Schizo - an extremely emotional film that comes from a part of the world that we rarely hear about: Kazakhstan; The Man Who Copied - an unexpectedly great little movie that had next to no distribution in the US; The Holy Girl - an excellent story full of elegant acting and intelligent narrative. Visit the 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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