A&E TV has another great exclusive offer for DVD Talk readers. When you order the Monty Python DVD Megaset (a 16 Volume Set with over 1750 minutes of Python including the complete collection of Monty Python's Flying Circus) you'll get the Monty Python Live! 2 Volume DVD Set Free plus free standard shipping, & a $35 Gift Certificate to be used on a future purchase or given as a gift. This is over a $60 value which you get for Free. Order now because this is a limited time offer, only good while supplies last.  
 

CineSchlock-O-Rama's Most Wanted huzzahs the capture of the killer kiddo classick It's Alive -- and its sequels!!! Better still, the incomparable Larry Cohen's commentaries for the trilogy amount to a master's course in exploitation filmmaking! Radio legend Rodney Bingenheimer is Mayor of the Sunset Strip and focus of the best (and weirdest) rock doc you've never seen. Plus, Critical Mass eyes "Cheaters" host Tommy Grand's return to shock TV.
 

This week The DVD Savant has reviews of: Looney Tunes Golden Collection - Volume 2 - Warner gives us another great big helping of looney cartoony fun, accompanied by some good extras, Ruby Gentry - King Vidor's Lust in the Swamp is as 'hot' as a maintstream Hollywood picture could get in 1952, September 11 - this grouping of artistic responses to the WTC attacks has several excellent episodes, Raising Helen - Kate Hudson shines but the movie's a dud ... and not even a very interesting one, That's Entertainment The Complete Collection - one fat boxed set now contains all three TE extravaganzas plus an extra disc of every conceivable extra plus a new documentary, The Three Faces of Eve - 1957's big acting winner, with Joanne Woodward wowing them with a performance of a woman with three separate personalities, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - one of the last of the MGM Golden Age musicals is one of the best, thanks to a witty score and script, and great choreography by Michael Kidd. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

This week, Silent DVD looks at The Parson's Widow, an early movie by cinematic master Carl Theodor Dreyer. Known for his powerful and emotional dramas, this feature is a departure from Dreyer's more well known work; it’s a comedy. A young man can only marry his fiance after he lands a job as a parson. He's happy when he gets a job offer, but only until he learns about the catch: if he wants the job he has to marry the previous parson's widow. This light movie may not sound like a typical Dreyer film, but it has a lot of the techniques and the narrative form that he would more fully explore in his later movies. Read Silent DVD now because 'not all great DVDs are in 5.1'.

A great mix of notable DVDs this week, including a dazzling restoration from Warner Bros. of Gone With the Wind: SE - it's packed with extras including a fantastic segment with Olivia de Havilland, Before Sunset [Review] - Richard Linklater revisits his characters from Before Sunrise ten years later in a well crafted romantic film, The Clearing [Review] - Robert Redford stars in a thriller that focuses more on the characters than anything else, Eddie Izzard: Definite Article, Glorious and Unrepeatable - three classic comedy concerts from one of the top comedians out there, Ju-on (The Grudge) [Review] - Takashi Shimizu's original Japanese version of the current US remake, The L Word - S1 - Showtime's notable series looks at the lives of several lesbian couples, Stepford Wives [Review] - a notable remake and update of the classic film, Zatoichi: Blind Swordsman - Sonatie - something old and something new from the ever enjoyable Takeshi Kitano. Read our List of Top Upcoming DVDs for more great DVDs out this week, and visit our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

A number of great clips from upcoming DVDs this week including a peek at the DVD/CD combo Awake: The Best of Live, including the videos for Heaven and Lightening Crashes and an Interview with Lead Singer Ed Kowalczyk. We also have 2 exclusive clips from Chronicles of Riddick [Review]: the original version from the opening sequence and a deleted scene from the prison escape. Finally, we have clips from the Crossroads Guitar Festival including a performance by Eric Clapton and an extensive 12 minute look at the behind the scenes of the Crossroad Guitar Festival.
 

This week we have a very special giveaway from New Line Home Entertainment for the holiday hit Elf: Infinifilm DVD, directed by Jon Favreau and starring Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Ed Asner, Mary Steenburgen and Zooey Deschanel. The Elf: Infinifilm DVD features: 4 Beyond the Movie featurettes, a Trivia Subtitle Track, Filmmaker commentary with Director Jon Favreau, Commentary with Will Ferrell, Deleted/Alternate Scenes, Music from Elf, 5 Behind-the-Scene Featurettes, Elf Karaoke and more. Enter Now for your chance to win one of 5 copies of the Elf: Infinifilm DVD.
 

DVD Talk is excited to announced that we've posted our 10,000 th mainstream DVD Review. This fantastic milestone comes out of the extremely hard work of team of reviews (40 in all) who spend countless hours watching every kind of DVD imaginable. For the record, the 10,000th DVD review is No Quarter - Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded by Gil Jawetz. Of the 10K DVD Reviews on DVD Talk, the most read DVD review is The Star Wars Trilogy by Holly E. Ordway, the most reviews submitted by a review are 2,274 reviews by the amazingly prolific Aaron Beierle. The top review to get the most reads in a single day is Janet Jackson: Live in Hawaii (which happened the day of the Super Bowl slip). The DVD longest review comes from Jason Bovberg and his magnum opus for Alien Quadrilogy: Complete 9-Disc Set. This 10K milestone doesn't include our over 300 Theatrical Reviews, 100 Audio Reviews or 2400 Adult DVD Reviews. As we hit this prestegious landmark, we renew our commitment to bring you the widest range of DVD Reviews that you'll find anywhere, online or off.

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