This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews and articles including: Two-Lane Blacktop - Monte Hellman's ultimate existential road trip movie looks and sounds better than ever; The Qatsi Trilogy -Koyannisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi take slightly different approaches to their thesis statements, but all merge incredible imagery with the mesmerizing music of Philip Glass; and Dark Crimes Film Noir Thrillers - A very welcome trio of top-rank early film noir classics: Robert Siodmak's Phantom Lady and the Alan Ladd-Veronica lake thrillers The Glass Key and The Blue Dahlia - great screenplays, acting, and expressionist lighting -- this is vintage noir gold. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.

Happy New Year! It's another slow week for home video releases, what with a majority of stores closed today. In any case, there have been a couple of titles you might what to check out that are new on store shelves: Looper [Blu-ray review] - one of those films that you can watch again and again - an intelligent, complex genre work that never fails to surprise and entertain; Justified: The Complete Third Season [Blu-ray review] - this third season maintains the high level of craft and the skillful, stylish entertainment that has set the show apart since its inception; and Cosmopolis [Blu-ray review] - an interesting and very timely movie from director David Cronenberg. Be sure to check out our DVD Talk Review Database for all the latest reviews including an entire section devoted to reviews of DVDs out this week.

Around this time every year the DVDTalk Review Panel starts to look back and discuss which releases over the past 12 months were the best. Naturally there's a lot of disagreement, but we vote on it and come up with a list of 20 titles that we dub the best of the year. This time we've come up with an eclectic group: Everything from a recent big budget Hollywood blockbuster that was released last summer to a French silent film that was first projected 110 year ago. There's a 60's soap opera, some Pixar flicks, a couple of Spielberg films, and some art films that Criterion and Kino released. Looking back, it was a great year for home video enthusiasts, no matter what genre is your passion. Take a look at what the DVDTalk Review Panel has named as the Top 20 releases of 2012.

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