Blu-ray Movie Reviews

Ken Korman's Top 10 of 2006 Best Picture and Sound on DVD

1. Good Night, and Good Luck (Warner). Gorgeous contrast and plentiful details amp up the familiar look of vintage Hollywood, circa 1940, in brilliant black-and-white.

2. Tsotsi (Miramax). Best extras of the year, including a 25-minute dialogue-free early film by director Gavin Hood.

3. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (DreamWorks). Focused and purposeful documentary segments reveal the inner workings of Aardman Animations' wonderful art.

4. The New World (New Line). Terrence Malick's Pocahontas epic may have fallen a little short of expectations overall, but its rich visual depiction of the wild American frontier looks spectacular on disc.

5. Lord of War (Special Edition; Lionsgate, 2 discs). Here's to topical extras that sharpen the point of a film - in this case, documentary material on the international arms trade and the weapons themselves.

6. V for Vendetta (Special Edition; Warner, 2 discs). Comic-book garishness comes to life.

7. The Proposition (First Look). Lovely widescreen transfer pays fitting homage to one of the film's inspirations, the great Sergio Leone.

8. Pride & Prejudice (2005; Universal). Warm, textured images transport us to Jane Austen's world.

9. Mission: Impossible III (Collector's Edition; Paramount, 2 discs). Explosive sound mix pushes the limits of the DVD format.

10. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Sony). Top-notch transfer captures the glorious, wide-open spaces of the Southwest.