Two reviews to start the new week, but it's really four, seeing how one title is really three films in one.

A.D. Vision's Daimajin Trilogy gives the cautious DVD buyer three films for the price of one. Seen in the U.S. mostly in scanned, dubbed television prints, these Giant Majin spectacles look good in their DaieiScope original screen shape, and do a great job combining a period samurai millieu with a supernatural monster, in the form of a Golem-like, stomping-mad warrior idol that comes to life to redress wrongs and turn Evil Warlords into screaming shishkabobs. Two out of the three films are very good, fairy-tale like fantastic adventures.

Artisan's Collectors' Edition DVD of High Noon is a reasonable copy of the movie, with some lightweight but okay docu extras. Gary Cooper is America's lonely virtuous man in a low-budget Western that won the Best Picture Oscar and convinced decades worth of reviewers that it was a brilliant Liberal Allegory for the McCarthy blacklist. Savant thinks different.

I'm trying to hit on the titles readers might want to read about first, but I'm sure some more exotica like the Daimajin films will sneak into the queue. Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson