Welcome to Cinematical's revamped but still opinionated guide to movies on disc, whether new-fangled Blu-ray or good old fashioned DVD, Hollywood blockbusters or indie wonders, direct to video debuts or refurbished classics.

Buy: The Fall
Rent: Baby Mama, The Forbidden Kingdom, How the West Was Won
Pass: Foreign Exchange, Seed, Sarah Landon & The Paranormal Hour, Then She Found Me

Blu-ray Spotlight: Exiled, Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2, Jerry Maguire, Cool Hand Luke, Rudy
Indies on DVD: Heckler, The Last Days of Left Eye, Last House on the Beach
Collector's Corner: The Big Lebowski, Child's Play, Pumpkinhead

The Fall.
Directed by Tarsem (The Cell), this incredible visual feast, filmed over four years, imagines the fantastical, far-flung stories told to a little girl recovering from a fall in a hospital. A wild, weird trip of a flick that cries out to be replayed time and again. Extras include deleted scenes, featurettes, and audio commentaries. Of the Blu-ray edition, DVD Talk said: "Easily ranks as reference quality." Buy.

Baby Mama
The "must rent" of the week, just to luxuriate in the comedic stylings of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin SNL vet Tina Fey as she learns about compromise with baby surrogage Amy Poehler. Extras include an audio commentary with Fey, Poehler, director Michael McCullers and SNL's Lorne Michaels. Also available on Blu-ray. Rent.

Read on for many more details on this week's highlighted releases.

Good news for fans of Tarsem Singh's certifiably wacky 2000 thriller The Cell: Warner Bros. is planning a video sequel to the Jennifer Lopez / Vince Vaughn flick. Only thing is ... none of the three people I just mentioned are coming back for Part 2. (Big shocker there.)

According to Shock, October 14 is when you'll be able to enjoy Tim Iacofano's The Cell 2, which comes from the writing team of Alex Barder, Rob Rinow, and Lawrence Silverstein. Cast-wise (so far) we've got Tessie Santiago, Chris Bruno, and good ol' Frank Whaley. The plot synopsis over at IMDb uses phrases like "serial killer," "psychic investigator," and "into the mind of a killer." So expect a basic psycho-thriller with lots of trippy visuals -- only not as many as the first flick because money's pretty tight on video sequels.

You'll no doubt remember the last "WB Premiere" title to come down the pike: Return to House on Haunted Hill. (Or maybe you don't.) The direct-to-video studio branch also has The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe coming in a few months.

I said goodbye to Urbana Sunday, after a fun-filled time at the 10th annual Ebertfest. Saturday's schedule was packed with a marvelously diverse slate of films, starting off with Ang Lee's Hulk. Now, I am admittedly not a comic geek, and I like smart, artsy films, which is probably why I'm in the minority in enjoying Lee's take on the Hulk story.

I've never understood the hate for this film; there are some great shots in the film and it's artistically beautiful. Plus, I like how Lee explores the father-son and anger issues underlying the origin story in the film. The audience at Ebertfest, at least, was very enthusiastic in their response to Lee's film; it may well have been the most positive audiene reception he's had for Hulk since its inception.

Here are a few pics from the fest, more after the jump ...

Roger Ebert's January announcement that he was going in for another major surgery began a long and disquieting silence. As the reviews he had written in advance started to run out, with no updates on his health and more and more of the content on his website being contributed by its steadfast editor Jim Emerson, some people began to worry that something was very seriously wrong. March saw the announcement that Ebert would reappear for his annual Overlooked Film Festival in Urbana-Champaign, but there was still no word from the man himself.

Yesterday, much to my relief, a typically funny and self-deprecating message from Roger appeared on his site and in the Sun-Times. It confirms his planned appearance at Ebertfest in late April, and, better yet, announces that he will return to reviewing movies shortly afterward. The bad news is that the surgery didn't restore his ability to speak, which will for the moment preclude Ebert's return to his TV show where Richard Roeper has been valiantly trying to hold down the fort. (Is anyone still watching?) That aside, though, the dispatch is overwhelmingly good news.

Unlike the title of his latest flick, Tarsem Singh's The Cell was pretty forgettable. I only saw it once (mayyybe twice), and all I remember is how unbelievably freaky Vincent D'Onofrio was. But the visual effects were pretty stunning, and Singh earned kudos from me in that respect. But then the guy disappeared for six years before returning with an indie flick, The Fall, back in 2006. Now, however, The Hollywood Reporter tells us Singh will once again step into studio world and direct a science fiction thriller for Warner Bros. called The Unforgettable. Based on the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment video game The Condemned: Criminal Origins (which I haven't played), project will be produced by Basil Iwanyk, David Goyer and Jason Hall (who also helped create the game alongside Nathan Hendrickson).

At one point they were calling this Species X, but I imagine they didn't want people to associate it with the long-running (and now strictly DTV) franchise, Species. So now it's called The Unforgettable, and it centers on a cop who, during the course of a murder investigation, realizes he's not human. That kinda sucks. And from there, he becomes involved in a war between good and evil aliens. So much for throwing up some yellow tape, grabbing a box of donuts and calling it a night, huh? Kurt Sutter, who's currently doing some work on The Punisher re-do, and penned a bunch of Shield episodes, wrote the script.