Here is a director that isn't afraid of providing extra material to complement his films. In fact, he's said on one of his commentary tracks that he used to dig up Criterion Laserdiscs just for the commentary on them. He's a director that's definitely been giving back, featuring two tracks on his first Hollywood outing Hard Eight, and another two for his sophomore effort Boogie Nights.

It's a small mystery to why the Magnolia DVD released without any commentary track whatsoever, until one pops in the second disc to discover the 79 minute documentary that covers P.T. Anderson's process. While the extras disc for Magnolia isn't as jam-packed as its roster mates here, it's unique look at one of the best young writer/directors of today.

Spielberg may be a DVD Nazi (though nowhere as bad as George Lucas) but he does slowly let some titles trickle out. Close Encounters of the Third Kind is his latest released prisoner. While Spielberg refuses to do commentaries of any sort, he seems quite open to the idea of participating in documentaries. For Close Encounters, I must say that the 101-minute documentary is one of the best and most informative supplements yet to grace the format.

The House of Mouse managed to squeak one in, as rare as it is for them to get a mention on Rush Magazine. Of course, A Bug's Life is more a child of Pixar, and they've presented us with a wonderful second disc just loaded with the animation process. Everything is covered here from concept art on paper all the way to computer modeling on screen.

Cameron is another director that isn't too keen on giving away any secrets in the form of a running commentary track, but that doesn't stop the Abyss from having a monster second disc. Beyond "Under Pressure" documentary, there are countless pages and pages and pages of screenplay drafts, production schematics, storyboards, and technical data. If there was such a thing as "too much information" for DVD extras, this would be a running candidate.

Jesse also threatened my life if I didn't include this on the list.

The first rule of Fight Club is: buy this DVD. This 2-disc package was released over a year ago and is still the benchmark to which all special editions are measured against. The funny thing is that the Fight Club DVD isn't labelled as a special edition. Still, it has 4 full-length commentary tracks, all of which are excellent and informative. Originally, 5 commentary tracks were planned along with an isolated musical score…but I guess they just ran out of space.

And then there's a whole other disc filled with extras.

David Fincher gets it. David Fincher knows what DVD is all about. Just like his Fight Club masterpiece, this one also features 4 full-length commentary tracks along with the usual making-of documentaries. What this 2-disc set features that the Fight Club set didn't is a newly remixed DTS 6.1 track. You've never experienced the seven deadly sins until you've gone through these DVDs (or have stopped by the Rush forums).