Since we've already covered the best and worst movies, my faves(and there were some great DVD's and boxsets last year!):

Best: (In no particular order)

Star Wars Trilogy-It ain't perfect, but it's pretty nice!

Dawn of the Dead:Ultimate Edition- It's pricey, but a must for Romero and midnight movie lovers. Whatever "Divamax" is, all three versions of the movie look amazing!

Film Noir Classic Collection: Finally, Murder My Sweet, Out of the Past, Asphalt Jungle, The Set-up, and the hard-to-see-in-any-format "Gun Crazy" on DVD!!!. It's the movies that make this one, the extras are skimpy(usually a trailer) and the commentaries are a mixed bag (I never knew there were so many dry "film noir author & expert") with only the Scorsese one on "Set-Up" and the Chandler buff on "Sweet" worth listening to imho. While not Criterion-class transfers, they look pretty good.

Criterion "Eyes Without a Face"- Like "Gun Crazy", I had read about this little-seen horror flick for years, but had never even had a chance to see it. Great restoration job!

Clerks 10th Aniv Edition- the old Miramax DVD was great, this one is more greater!


Worst:

Colossus-The Forbin Project- no extras, no menu(!!!!!!!), panned & scanned, and a lousy transfer. Thanks Universal! You'll do a special edition aniversary 2 disc set for "Showgirls" but spend $1.98 on one of the great underated sci-fi flicks of the sixties.

Other than this and the horrible $1.00 DVD's every other merchant is selling, most of the DVD's I bought this year looked pretty good.

Can't come up with 5 bad ones but here's 5 that made me happy:

"The Martin Scorsese Collection" - includes a newly restored issue of "Goodfellas" along with the first anamorphic issues of "Who's That Knocking at My Door", "Mean Streets", "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", and "After Hours".

"Ed Wood" - My favorite Burton/Depp effort about my favorite "bad" director finally available in the proper format with some very nice extras besides.

"Short Cuts " - Two Disc set from Criterion offering one of Robert Altman's best ensemble films weaved from 9 short stories by Raymond Carver.

"Betty Blue Unrated Director's Cut" - 3 hour long French film about a beautiful young woman who is quite insane. Possibly the sexiest movie ever made.

"The Rapture" - Mimi Rogers stars as a lonely telephone operator who trades group sex for God - only to give him the finger when the biblical Apocalypse comes to pass. An utterly unique and confounding movie.