It’s a great week for animation buffs, top-lined by the U.S. release of the latest Wallace & Gromit short, A Matter Of Loaf And Death (along with a new “complete collection”). Also worth checking out from cartoon-land: the imaginative computer-animated sci-fi feature Battle For Terra; and SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes, a special-features-filled brick of a box set. Television fans will likely be focused on the new fall season (now in full swing), but for those who want to catch up with two of last season’s biggest hits, both Castle and The Mentalist are now available. Or you could just drop into their second seasons. You won’t have a hard time keeping up.
30 Rock: Season Three
Universal, $49.98
Adam Resurrected
Image, $27.98; Blu-ray, $35.98
The Anna Nicole Smith Story
Vivendi, $19.99
Battle For Terra
Lionsgate, $19.98; Blu-ray, $29.99
Brotherhood: The Final Season
Showtime/Paramount, $42.99
Castle: The Complete First Season
ABC, $39.99
Clive Barker’s Book Of Blood
Lionsgate, $26.98; Blu-ray, $39.99
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
Criterion Blu-ray, $69.98
Friday The 13th: The Series – The Final Season
Paramount, $49.99
Ghost Whisperer: The Fourth Season
Paramount, $63.98
Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past
Warner, $28.98; Blu-ray, $35.99
Godzilla: King Of The Monsters
Classic Media Blu-ray, $29.95
The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto
Anchor Bay, $19.97; Blu-ray, $34.97
Hot Fuzz
Universal Blu-ray, $26.98
Jonas, Volume One: Rockin’ The House
Walt Disney, $19.99
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit – The Tenth Year
Universal, $59.98
Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup
Microcinema, $17.99
Lymelife
Screen Media, $27.98; Blu-ray, $29.98
The Mentalist: The Complete First Season
Warner, $59.98
Mitch Fatel Is Magical
Comedy Central, $16.99
Observe And Report
Warner, $28.98; Blu-ray, $35.99
O’Horten
Sony, $28.96
Pierrot Le Fou
Criterion Blu-ray, $39.98
Rage
Liberation, $24.95
Shaun Of The Dead
Universal Blu-ray, $29.98
SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes
Nickelodeon, $99.99
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Motion Picture Collection
Paramount, $55.98; Blu-ray, $69.99
Star Trek: The Original Series – Season Two
Paramount Blu-ray, $129.99
Streets Of Blood
Starz/Anchor Bay, ; Blu-ray, $34.97
Sügisball
Strand, $27.99
Taxi: The Complete Fourth Season
Paramount, $39.98
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles – The Complete Second Season
Warner, $59.98; Blu-ray, $79.98
Tulpan
Zeitgeist, $29.99
Ugly Betty: The Complete Third Season
Walt Disney, $59.99
Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection
Lionsgate, $29.98; Blu-ray, $29.99
Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death
Lionsgate, $14.98
Wizards On Deck With Hannah Montana
Walt Disney, $19.99