With so many silent movies making their way onto DVD we have an extra installment of Silent DVD this month. This time around we have reviews of Kino's First Ladies: Early Women Filmmakers series. This three disc set (each available seperately) showcases four features and a short that were created by female filmmakers in the days before the studio system. We also have a look at a recently released documentary on the first major American director, Edwin S. Porter. All this and more in this month's Silent DVD.

Though indisputably one of the all-time great documentary filmmakers, Wiseman's mesmerizing, uniquely observational work has been as frustratingly elusive on home video as it is monumentally influential. Indeed, his famously controversial Titicut Follies was banned outright for three decades, for years accessible only to psychology students. But now nearly all of Wiseman's movies are at long last available on DVD through the director's own Zipporah Films website. Not sure where to start? We've got reviews of some of his most fascinating films, including High School, Meat, Law and Order, Welfare, State Legislature, and Domestic Violence.

Bust out the Cosmopolitans and Blahniks, because Sarah Jessica Parker and the rest of the gang are back in Sex and the City: The Movie. Julianne Moore makes a full court press for her son in the unnerving incest drama Savage Grace. And DVD Talk takes an early look at Dario Argento's apocalyptic madhouse Mother of Tears. Also in theaters: The abuse of anabolic steroids is investigated in Bigger, Stronger, Faster, and Liv Tyler is tormented by home invaders in the thriller The Strangers. Be sure to catch reviews of other recent Theatrical Films: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Son of Rambow, War, Inc., Speed Racer, Made of Honor, The Fall, What Happens in Vegas, Iron Man, and Baby Mama. As always, we invite you to share your thoughts on films In Theaters in our Movie Talk Forum.

TV on DVD remains very popular with more and more favorites being released. New TV reviews include:  Hiya Kids! A 50's Saturday Morning Box - a marvelously entertaining set of kid's shows from the early days of television, this wonderful collection from a simpler era is well worth watching; Cranford [second review]- Stock Victorian story conventions are made fresh by a charmingly light, affectionate touch, and by the expertise of the exemplary British cast. Utter perfection; and Tom Selleck Western Collection - three terrific Tom Selleck small-screen westerns that provide not only the basic guns-'n'-horses pleasures western fans crave, but also a beautifully sad elegy for the vanishing cowboy. Other shows include:  Mike Douglas - Moments & Memories, Two and a Half Men - The Complete Third Season [second review], and Monsterquest - Complete Season 1.  Want more?  Check out all of the TV on DVD reviews in the DVDTalk database.

This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: The Secret Invasion - Roger Corman's Yugoslavia-filmed war movie predates The Dirty Dozen by three years to tell the tale of criminals rounded up to go on a suicide mission; Frank Sinatra The Golden Years - Five titles by Ol' Blue Eyes, the excellent The Tender Trap, The Man with the Golden Arm and Some Came Running and the not-so-hot later efforts None but the Brave and Marriage on the Rocks; and V for Vendetta (Blu-ray) - Hugo Weaving's back and Natalie Portman's got him! Anarchy and rebellion against a 1984-Brazil-Fascist nightmare English state, by a masked avenger who likes to blow things up. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Another banner week for DVDs with the studios releasing some great films and boxed sets such as:  Rambo: The Original Trilogy (Blu-ray) [review 1, review 2] - no matter how silly the movies may get, there's always some good action to pull the audience through; The Thief of Bagdad [review]- a beloved unique classic, this Technicolor fantasy is a must see; and The Walker [review]- a subtle masterpiece and one of 2007's most overlooked films. Other releases of note include:  The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 2: 1937-1939, Visions of Hell: The Films of Jim VanBebber [review],  and The Invaders - The First Season. 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.

This week we have a special giveaway from KOCH LORBER - two classics from Jean-Luc Godard now available for the first time on DVD. In La Chinoise, Godard presents one of his most contentious and prophetic works. Released prior to the May 1968 riots in France, the film follows a small group of students who, after studying Mao and the growth of communism in China, plan on changing the world by any means necessary. Extensive DVD extras include never-before-released interviews with Godard and Anne Wiazemsky, Venice Film Festival press conference footage and more. In Le Gai Savoir, two militants (Jean-Pierre Léaud and Juliet Berto) have a discourse on language inside an abandoned television studio. Called "one of Godard's most beautiful" and "visually lucid movies" (The New York Times), the film is renowned for marking the beginning of the director's "radical period." Enter now for your chance to win one of 5 sets of these two eagerly awaited, digitally restored films.

This week the DVD Talk Review Database has some great new entries, including some discs you may have overlooked. Recent DVD Reviews include: Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs - loaded with plenty of colorful characters and creative twists, this is an entertianing adventure; Icons of Adventure - a deliriously fun set of four features and offbeat extras. This set showcases the Hammer films The Stranglers of Bombay, The Terror of the Tongs, The Pirates of Blood River, and The Devil-Ship Pirates; and George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead - At times scary, funny and thought-provoking, this one skewers the government and the media--and has some bloody fun along the way. Other recent reviews include: Hamburger Hill, Shirley Temple - America's Sweetheart Collection, Volume 6 (Stowaway / Wee Willie Winkie / Young People), and Modern Marvels - Engineering Disasters.  Visit the DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week and the ability to browse reviews by studio

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