Can't imagine many Mirror readers want to revisit the depressing events of the 2004 American presidential election - but now there's good reason to cast your gaze back to those dark days. As late-night TV viewers have known for a while, the funniest political commentary in the U.S. right now is coming from Jon Stewart and his talented host of reporters at The Daily Show. Available as of June 28, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Indecision 2004 collects the best of the show's excellent coverage, including 10 full episodes, as well as bonus featurettes and reports from correspondents Rob Corddry, Ed Helms, Stephen Colbert and Canada's own Samantha Bee. Highlights include commentaries from the probing news team and an "award-not-winning" short from Colbert, Requiem for a Show That Was Daily. It's quite likely this two-disc set might be the only good thing to come out of last year's race.

Brilliance in a very different form is available in Kino's new two-disc set, The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer - featuring the genius work of the Czech Republic's groundbreaking stop-motion filmmaker. Essential viewing for animation lovers.» Mark Slutsky