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Vince Vaughan's Wild West Comedy Show: DVD Contest!

Catch the bus with Vince Vaughn ( Swingers , Wedding Crashers ) and four hand-picked comedians as they tour the country in Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland [ official site ], arriving on DVD June 3, 2008, from New Line Home Entertainment. Take a backstage look at the comedians' lives on the road as they take their LA-based comedy to regional audiences across the United States to perform in 30 cities in 30 nights. The film features Justin Long ( Accepted , Dreamland ), Peter Billingsley ( A Christmas Story , The Break-Up ) and four of Vince Vaughn’s favorite young comics: Ahmed Ahmed , John Caparulo , Bret Ernst and Sebastian Maniscalco . DVD extras include feature-length audio commentary from Vaughn, the comedians and the filmmakers, plus behind-the-scenes featurettes showcasing Jon Favreau , Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens .

And now, thanks to GreenCine and New Line, you can win a copy of the Wild West Comedy Show DVD to have your own rootin', tootin' gigglin' good time if you're one of the 5 (five) lucky winners in our new contest.

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Danny Plotnick: Warts and All

GreenCine's proud to offer an eclectic collection of short films by an underappreciated independendent filmmaker, straight from San Francisco’s Microcinema DVD.

Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick (Comedic Missives from The American Underground, 1986-2001) is 100 minutes of mayhem featuring films shot on 16mm, super 8 and digital video. Danny Plotnick roared into the underground film world in the 1980s. Fueled by his love of punk and alternative culture and infected with d.i.y. spirit, he started making films that captured a similarly snarly attitude. His films were pegged as bawdy, bad-mouthed and beautiful, straddling the line between high-brow and low-brow art.

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Lynn Shelton: "They Could Just Make It Happen With Their Own Words"

"Lynn Shelton's My Effortless Brilliance plays something like an overtly comic remake of Old Joy, with mountains swapped out for woods, and a third man wild card pushing the narrative along," wrote Karina Longworth at the SpoutBlog when she caught the film's premiere at SXSW earlier this year.

"It's not quite like nothing I've ever seen before, but it's a nicely rendered, novella-esque character study with some impressive naturalistic performances."

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DVD Spotlight: 5/20.

"In his extraordinary film, Great World of Sound , [Craig] Zobel takes the hypocrisy of the [American] dream and brings it to the grassroots, to the embryonic moment when the expectation of fame meets the con of possibility," writes Tom Hall at Hammer to Nail.

Read more about what critics and film bloggers are saying about new (and old) DVDs in this week's spotlight.