It has, indeed, been a very slow week for film releases on DVD and Blu-ray, but I did my best to find the cream of the crop.

First, we have Waltz with Bashir, which was fully expected to win the Academy Award. This film was most likely a sore spot in a lot of office Oscar pools. This is as close to a verite documentary that you can get in the field of animation and is well worth a look.

Next is Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection. This set is going to be a delight. Chuck Jones is one of the greatest minds ever to grace animation and his work on the cat and mouse antics of Tom and Jerry yield some of the most hilarious shorts those characters ever had the pleasure to appear in.

I would define this one as a must buy.

Last on the list for today is Louis Malle’s My Dinner with Andre distributed by the Criterion Collection. Starring Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, this film took the arthouse world by storm in the early 80s by daring to make a film about a single dinner conversation.