Out now is a special edition DVD of Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's meta-war film. This glorious, violently entertaining pop fable that is my pick for the best film of this year. Considering the source -- Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 pulp action movie rip-off of The Dirty Dozen -- Tarantino's film is neither a send up of Italian exploitation nor a fan boy potpourri but almost a hallucinatory comic book of what war movies could be. Beginning with, "Once Upon A Time In Nazi-Occupied France," and set in five chapters, the film alternates between several story lines. One about a scalp-hungry commando team of Nazi killers led by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) and his dedicated crew (including a exuberantly witty turn by Hostel director Eli Roth).  The other is about Shosanna (Melanie Laurent) who escaped death as a young girl at the hands of notorious "Jew Hunter" Col. Hans Landa (the astonishing Christoph Waltz) to reinvent herself as the owner of a movie palace who plots to trap and kill Nazi bigwigs planning a premiere at her theater. There are also brilliant costar turns by Michael Fassbender as a David Niven-like British spy and former film critic, Til Schweiger, as a feared German cut-throat, and Diane Kruger as a Mata Hari-like movie star. The fiery action-packed pay-off at the end is wildly outrageous, cinematically dazzling and ludicrously satisfying. Spring for the two disc special edition because there are great extras: A roundtable discussion with Tarantino, Pitt and critic Elvis Mitchell, the making of "Nation's Pride," a great talk with Rod Taylor (The Time Machine) who plays Winston Churchill in the film, and lots of other fun things.