A solid crop of movies out this week all gunning for your holiday movie business including: Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny - Jack Black and Kyle Gass bring their vastly popular and insane act onto the big screen in a film which DVD Talk Reviewer Brian Orndorf calls "a Gravitron ride of nard-crunching brilliance and explosivo satisfaction"; Darren Aronofsky's highly anticipated and stunning The Fountain delivers as a demanding and awe inspiring filmgoing experience; Tony Scott and Denzel Washington team up in Deja Vu - a likable but somehow familiar film; Deck The Halls - the absolute epitome of the crappy holiday film. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Casino Royale, Fast Food Nation, Happy Feet, For Your Consideration, Bobby, Stranger than Fiction, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, Borat and Flushed Away. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films in theaters in our Movie Talk Forum Area.

A ton of notable TV on DVD releases reviewed this week including: Alias: The Complete Collection: Limited Edition - a collection of twenty-nine DVDs that represent the show's entire five season run and an exclusive bonus disc in a slick looking package that represents a Rambaldi artifact box; The West Wing - The Complete Seventh Season - a true departure from previous seasons focusing almost exclusively on the presidential campaign; So NoTORIous - The Complete Series - a funny diversion that gets the bulk of its laughs off of its nasty one-liners about celebrity culture and Tori Spelling's ability to make fun of herself; Saturday Night Live - The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse - the most consistently subversive feature in Saturday Night Live it offers a lot of laughs when its not digging fangs into some sacred cows; Ultraman - Series One, Volume Two - as good a release of Ultraman as we're going to get. Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted TV on DVD.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Forbidden Planet Ultimate Collector's Edition - this lavish set includes a newly remastered main feature, a second feature and several other top extras; Pandora's Box - G. W. Pabst' 1928 German classic testifies to the legend of Louise Brooks; The Paul Newman Collection - an interesting group of pictures includes Newman's breakthrough feature; The Super Inframan - this 1975 Hong Kong melange of Kung-Fu, Kaiju and campy villains pits the bionic Inframan against a horde of rubber monsters; Oh! What a Lovely War - Richard Attenborough's 1970 directing debut is one of the most unusual musicals ever; Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) - Marlon Brando calls the shots in this beautiful and dynamic version of the famous novel; The Marlon Brando Collection - Warners collects a quintet of Brando's work from 1963 to 1980. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

This week we have a special giveaway from Anchor Bay for The Seduction [Watch The Trailer]. Morgan Farchild stars as an attractive, well-known TV newscaster who is stalked by an obsessed admirer, a TV station scriptwriter, whose obsession turns to hate when she rejects his advances. The Seduction DVD features: Audio Commentary with Producer Irwin Yablans and writer/director David Schmoeller and Three Production Featurettes. Enter Now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of The Seduction DVD we're giving away this week.

A strong week for notable DVDs including: An Inconvenient Truth [Review] - Al Gore's thoughtful and entertaining look at global warming is one of this year's "must see" films; A Fish Called Wanda [Review] - the often delayed and long overdue special edition of a true gem that's worth rediscovering; Seinfeld - Season 7 [Review] - yadda, yadda, yadda, get this one or there will be 'NO soup for you', Ice Age - The Meltdown [Review] - a sequel that surpasses the original and a perfect choice for family movie night. Other notable DVDs out this week include: Alias - The Complete Collection [Review], Boston Legal: S2 [Review], Da Ali G Show: Da Compleet Seereez [Review], Double Life of Veronique [Review] and Scoop [Review]. Be sure to check out our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

If you enter one DVD Talk Giveaway this year, make sure it's the HD DVD Mega Giveaway. We're giving away a huge HD DVD Prize Pack including 10 top HD DVDs: Batman Begins, Borne Supremacy, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Constantine, The Fast and The Furious Tokyo Drift, Mission Impossible III, Reds, Seabiscut, Sleepy Hollow and Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. Also one lucky winner will also get a brand new HD DVD Player. Enter now for your chance to win. Also be sure to check out our HD DVD Shopping Guide, Reviews of all the latest HD DVDs and our new column High Def Revolution.

Silent DVD has a look at a nearly forgotten filmmaker this week: Jacques Feyder. This talented French director was responsible for a wide range of films, and three of them have been released in Rediscover Jacques Feyder: French Film Master. This three disc set released by Image has beautifully restored versions of Queen of Atlantis (1920) a classic adventure story in the same vein as H. Rider Haggard's works, Crainquebille (1922) a social commentary and lampoon of French bureaucracy, and Faces of Children (1925) a quiet and touching film that is filled with authentic emotion and easily the best film in the set. There's also news of upcoming silent releases including several discs that are scheduled to be released in the last months of 2006. Be sure to check out our previous columns including ones on the 2006 San Fransisco Silent Film Festival, Leni Riefenstahl's The Blue Light, and the restored edition of Chaplin's Mutual Comedies.

This week we have several clips from the DVD release of Once Upon A Girl from Severin Films. Once upon a time, a group of frustrated yet dirty-minded Hollywood animators led by writer/director Don Jurwich - famed artist and producer for The Flintstones, Josie & The Pussycats and Scooby Doo - forever scandalized the cartoon community with this immoral mix of live-action and extremely adult animation. Once Upon A Girl nearly destroyed the careers of everyone involved and has been relatively unseen until now. Check out these clips from Once Upon A Girl: Once Upon A Girl Trailer, Jack Meets Pimpy, Jack, Everyone Gets into The Act, Prince Meets Cinderella and Red Riding - Note these clips are pretty naughty and not safe for work. (Get more information on Once Upon A Girl DVD here). Be sure to catch past week's clips at DVD Talk TV.

With over 17,700 DVD reviews in the DVD Talk Review Database, it's easy to overlook some of the great reviews. Recent DVD Reviews include: Superman Returns - easily one of the best comic book films in recent memory; An Evening With Kevin Smith 2 - Evening Harder - one of the few people we could listen to speak for four hours, only to jump back and listen to him again (Listen to our interview with Kevin Smith); Clerks II - a jam packed 2 disc special edition that will thrill even the casual Kevin Smith fan; Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Four - an excellent selection of sixty cartoons on four discs jam-packed with bonus features earns our highest possible ranking; Dane Cook - Vicious Circle - Cook's unique style works in this 'comedy in the rounde'; Norman McLaren: The Master's Edition - previously extremely hard to find this collection of Norman McLaren films is a must for anyone interested in art and cinema. 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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