After lots of big releases last week, the pace slows considerably, but there are still some excellent home entertainment offerings including (at long last) a Teen Titans animated feature that harkens back to the classic Titans comic book sagas of the 1980s rather than the kid-targeting Titans cartoons of the past decade, plus the Heroes Reborn miniseries, and Ken Burns’ superb documentary about Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball’s color barrier.

Movies

It is such a light week for movie releases that the top offering is the direct-to-DVD DC animated movie Justice League vs. Teen Titans (Warner Bros., “PG-13,” 75 min., $19.98, BD $24.98).  Although for years DC has threatened to dedicate one of these adult-targeting, direct-to-DVD animated offerings to the Teen Titans, this is the first film in the series that really features the teen superheroes.  Yes, the Justice League is here, but largely in a “possessed” form as their spirits have been taken over by evil sorcery of Trigon (who also happens to be Raven’s father) that the Titans have to “defeat.” Titans fans should enjoy this film, which finally presents the teen heroes in a grittier, more grown up animated form that reflects the classic Teen Titans comics of the 1980s and 1990s in great contrast to the previous cartoon iterations of the group like Teen Titans Go, that was crafted for very young viewers.

Horror movie fans looking for something new will have to make do with The Forest (Universal, “PG-13,” 94 min., $29.98, BD $34.98), which takes an interesting premise—a young girl searching for her missing twin sister in Japan’s infamous “Suicide Forest”—and proceeds to make film that is so light on chills that it received only a 9% positive rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

TV on DVD

This week’s top TV offering is Heroes Reborn: Event Series (Universal, 556 min., $44.98, BD $49.98), which collects the 13-episode sequel to the NBC superhero series created by Tim Kring that aired from 2006-2010.  Kring returned to produce Heroes Reborn, which pleased some fans, but Heroes Reborn, which was criticized for an overly dramatic storyline and an excessive reliance on special effects, didn’t garner high enough ratings to avoid cancellation, so this may well be the final iteration of the Heroes phenomenon, which started on TV, migrated to comic books, and then back to TV again.

Also out on Tuesday is Grace and Frankie: Season 1 (Lionsgate, $29.98), which collects the 13-episode Netflix comedy drama that stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as two former rivals who are forced to live together and support each other after their husbands run off together.  A second season is slated to air starting in May, and Netflix has already announced a third season.

For those who love baseball, Ken Burns’ documentary Jackie Robinson (PBS, 240 min., $24.99, BD $29.99), which is currently airing on PBS, is definitely a “must-see.”  Robinson’s saga has been told numerous times on TV and in the movies, but never with the detail and rigor that Burns’ brings to the project.

The only other contemporary series due on Tuesday is Welcome to Sweden: The Complete Second Season (eOne, 200 min., $34.98), the quirky, lowkey comedy/drama by Greg Poehler that is based on his own life as an ex-pat (Greg’s brother Amy is a producer on the series).

Vintage TV offerings range from the 1990s drama Sisters: Season 4 (Shout Factory, 1080 min., $39.83), which includes all 22 episodes of the hit series about four female siblings from Winnetka that stars Swoosie Kurtz, Patricia Kalember, Julianne Phillips and Sela Ward as the eponymous heroines, who are joined in Season Four by lots of interesting co-stars including George Clooney and Jo Anderson.  And then there’s Family Matters: The Complete 6th Season (Warner Bros., DVD-R, 557 min., $29.99), which features the always enjoyable antics of the Ur-nerd, Steve Urkel.

For those who enjoy Americanized super sentai shows there is the single-disc Power Rangers Dino Charge, Vol. 2: Resurgence (Lionsgate, $14.98), and the 5-disc Power Rangers Wild Force: The Complete Series (Shout Factory, 1100 min., $19.97).

There are two fine offerings from overseas this week including Prisoner’s Wives: The Complete Collection (Acorn Media, 608 min., $59.99), which collects all ten episodes of the gritty realistic BBC series that examines what happens to women when their significant other is imprisoned, and from Australia, the highly addictive period drama, A Place to Call Home: Season 3 (Acorn Media, 505 min., $59.99), which follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bligh family in 1950s Australia and includes a heavy dose of romance along with dealing with topics like anti-Semitism and homosexuality.

Anime

This week’s top release is the action-packed harem comedy romance Maken-Ki! Season 2 (Funimation, 275 min., BD/DVD Combo $64.98), which contains all of the 10-episode Xebec series from 2014 that features original story arcs based on characters in the shonen manga by Hiromitsu Takeda about a teen boy who attends a previously all-girl high school just to ogle the coeds, but then finds out that the school is actually an academy for those with magical powers.

Other offerings include the supernatural comedy Gugure! Kokkuri-san: Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks, 300 min., Subtitles Only!, $49.98, BD $59.98), a 12-episode 2014 series from TMS that is based on the shonen manga written by Midori Endo; and the 2014 series Tonari no- Seki-Kun: The Master of Killing Time Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks, 168 min., $39.98, BD $49.98), which was simulcast on Crunchyroll, and is based on the seinen manga series by Takuma Morishige about a school girl who is constantly being distracted by the elaborate schemes of the boy who sits across from her.

This week’s re-priced re-release is the Horizon in the Middle Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks, 650 min., $79.98, BD $99.98), which includes two 13-episode seasons of the 2011-2012 Sunrise adaptation of the far future science fiction fantasy series about an occupied Japan that has been divided up into a number of fiefdoms.  Both of the seasons were previously released individually with an MSRP of $69.98 for the BDs.