Need a break from the building Oscar hype? Here are a few titles to keep your Blu-ray or DVD player busy:

– Where the Wild Things Are: A film that appears to have been forgotten by award voters (it did pick up a Golden Globe nomination for best score; said score was also at the center of Oscar nomination eligibility debate that still rages on), this darkly vital Spike Jonze version of the classic children’s tale should do nicely in DVD/Blu-ray sales and rentals, even though it really should be seen on the big screen.

– 2012: If you’re looking for the epitome of Roland Emmerich’s destructive cinematic powers, look no further. His version of the end of the world is just as massively explosive as you’d hope it would be.

– Disney shines their considerable spotlight on some films of Hayao Miyazaki, releasing DVD and Blu-ray special editions of Ponyo, My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky and Kiki’s Delivery Service.

– This weekend’s opening of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland has inspired the release of what seems like every single adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s story that has ever been made: “Alice”, the 2009 TV mini-series; the 1999 TV movie with Tina Majorino, Ben Kingsley, Miranda Richardson and host of others; the psychedelic 1966 BBC version starring John Gielgud and Peter Sellers; and 1933′s star-studded big screen edition with Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, W.C. Fields, and Edward Everett Horton — whose performance as the Mad Hatter set the standard for actors who followed.

See more of this week’s releases in our DVD & Blu-ray section.