I could spill a lot of ink trashing 2012 - and I intend to - but if you want to save a little time, here's all you really need to know: At by Glen Baity one crucial movie junkie moment in this film, a tsunami hurls an aircraft carrier into the White House.

DVD PICK OF THE WEEK DOWNHILL RACER (The Criterion Collection): This 1969 drama is widely regarded as one of the best movies ever made about skiing. Indeed, the skiing footage is excellent - and at the time, revolutionary - but there's more to this movie than the sport it dramatizes.

If you love Donnie Darko, you almost certainly have one thing in common with your fellow Darko fans: You've dedicated hours to watching and discussing it.

A buff, tough Michael Jai White (also a co-producer) is front and center as Isaiah Bone, a mysterious ex-con who muscles his way into the underground (and underworld) fight circuit, with the further intent of bringing down the crime ring behind it -...

Say you live an interesting life. You're the first human to set foot on Mars, maybe. Or you solve the world's energy crisis, or eradicate poverty, or become the first person to travel from New York to Los Angeles in a flying car. You thumb your nose at the doubters on your way into the history books.

DVD PICK OF THE WEEK NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Warner Home Video): For its 50th anniversary, one of Alfred Hitchcock's best films returns in a two-disc specialedition DVD ($24.98 retail) or a Blu-ray Book ($34.99 retail), replete with a bevy of behind-the-scenes extras.

Before it has even dispensed with the opening credits, Saw VI treats its audience to the sight of two characters forced to cut away at the meatiest parts of their own bodies.

DVD PICK OF THE WEEK HARDWARE (Severin Films): For a grisly, grungy, highly stylized brand of Halloween fright, screenwriter/director Richard Stanley's award-winning 1990 sci-fi shocker comes to DVD ($29.95 retail) and Blu-ray ($34.99) in an unrated version more explicit than the one released to theaters.

For the past several years, if you wanted to see a scary movie in a movie theater, you couldn't hope for much beyond one of the seeming dozens of Saw sequels.

DVD PICK OF THE WEEK NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment): This freewheeling, cult-friendly gem was one of the unsung sci-fi/horror classics of the '80s - a fond throwback to the drive-in B-movie era (replete with nods and in-jokes) that never quite found its audience.