Five theatrical films that debuted in the fall of 2016 are due out on disc this week, including Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant, Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon, the latest Kevin Hart stand-up comedy concert film, and the micro-budgeted superhero film Max Steel, plus new seasons of Homeland, Mr. Robot, Bones, and a lower-priced DVD complete set of Star Trek: Enterprise.

Theatrical Movies

This week’s movie releases include three films that debuted in theaters on October 14 of last year, The Accountant, an action film starring Ben Affleck, the concert movie Kevin Hart: What Now?, and the low-budget superhero film Max Steel.  Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant (Warner Bros., ‘R,’ $28.98, BD $35.99, 4K $44.95) found the most success at the box office earning almost $150 million worldwide.  Action film fans will find much to like in The Accountant, which features excellent performances from Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick.  In fact Affleck’s work in The Accountant certainly betters his other major 2016 performance in the bloated Batman v. Superman.

Personally I have had just about my fill of “highly-functioning autistic” characters, a psychological character trope that is to our era what schizophrenia (The Three Faces of Eve) was to the 1950s and 60s.  A further potential problem with The Accountant is the movie’s all too evident “gun porn,” which could put off some, but then there are the rest of us who can’t fail to be impressed by the movie’s array of high tech sniper rifles (and there’s even a M134 Minigun).  Suffice it to say that The Accountant, with its body count and headshots, is targeted at the modern action movie fan, not the faint of heart.

Kevin Hart fans will want to see the film based on his 2015 stand-up tour, especially since, in addition to his stand-up routine, the comedian concocted a wild framing story featuring Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, and Ed Helms.  Kevin Hart: What Now? (Universal, “R,” 194 min., $29.98, BD $34.98) earned $23.8 million at the box office and a stellar 76% positive rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

Produced for just $10 million, the superhero film Max Steel (Universal, “PG-13,” 186 min., $22.98, BD $29.98) could garner only a 5% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.  Director Stewart Hendler has done better work (Sorority Row), as has writer Christopher Yost (Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes), so the bland Max Steel is a disappointment, though not quite as bad as its critical rating might suggest. This origin story saga, which is based on the 2000-2002 Max Steel cartoon series that was produced to hype the Mattel action figure line, is for superhero movie completists only.

Two other fall 2016 releases are due on Tuesday, Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon (Lionsgate, “PG-13,” 97 min., $19.99, BD/DVD Combo $39.99, 4K $29.99), an action-packed film based on one of the world’s greatest man-made disasters, the Gulf oil spill; and Nate Parker’s Nat Turner slave-revolt saga The Birth of a Nation (Fox, “R,” 120 min., $29.98, $39.99). Like last year’s 12 Years a Slave, Parker’s The Birth of a Nation is a necessary antidote to decade after decade of Hollywood’s sanitized depictions of slavery in films like Gone With the Wind, and to the racist themes of D.W. Griffith’s 1915 Klan-glorifying The Birth of a Nation.  Critics generally applauded Parker’s film, which earned a 72% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes (151 positive reviews versus 49 negative), though a controversy stemming from an incident in the director’s past has kept the film from getting a lot of Oscar buzz.

TV on DVD

There are some very interesting TV on DVD offerings this week starting with the commercial cable hit Homeland: The Complete Fifth Season (Fox, 550 min., $39.99, BD $49.99), which stars Clare Danes, whose character Carrie Mathison is no longer working for the CIA in Season Five.  While the focus shifts a bit in Season Five, tension remains high and the clever plot folds in all sorts of real world events (the rise of ISIS, the Syrian War, Vladimir Putin, Edward Snowden, and the Syrian refugee crisis).

But for many tech-obsessed geek viewers this week’s top release is Mr. Robot: 2.0 (Universal, 543 min., $39.98, BD $49.99), which collects all 11 episodes of the second season of this USA Cable channel cyber-thriller about a talented hacker who is recruited by the mysterious anarchist known as Mr. Robot to participate in an attack on the powerful E Corp.

For others this week’s top offering is a new lower-priced edition of Star Trek Enterprise: The Complete Series (Paramount, 4,226 min., $89.98), which contains all 98 episodes of the fifth live-action Star Trek series that lasted four seasons.  The four seasons are available individually (at $39.98) a pop, but the complete series is a much better deal.  While this prequel to the original Star Trek series is uneven (there was little need for the “Temporal Cold War” storyline), there were some excellent episodes amid the dross, so Trekkers who have so far resisted acquiring Enterprise, might want to reconsider, though they really might want to wait just over a month until the entire Enterprise series is released in a new lower-priced edition on Blu-ray on February 14.

Also of interest are Bones: The Complete 11th Season (Fox, 800 min., $39.98), the penultimate season of the saga of a forensic anthropologist (well-played by Emily Deschanel) and her FBI agent husband (the always reliable David Boreanaz); Lena Dunham’s edgy slice-of-contemporary-urban-life saga Girls: The Complete 5th Season (HBO, $24.98, BD $34.98); Broad City: Season 3 (Comedy Central, 210 min., $26.98), the Comedy Central series produced by Amy Poehler; the bookish fantasy series The Librarians: Season 2 (Sony, 421 min., $30.99); and the historical fantasy series Sleepy Hollow: Season 3 (Fox, 770 min., $39.98).

Kids offerings include the Nickelodeon series Miraculous: The Tales of Lady Bug and Chat Noir, Vol. 3: Be Miraculous (Shout Factory, 154 min., $14.98), which contains 7 episodes on one disc; and the live-action Power Rangers Dino Charge: Season 2, Vol.1 Roar (Lionsgate, 232 min., $14.98), which contains 10 episodes.

Anime

This week’s top release, at least for mecha fans, is Aquarion Logos: Part 2 (Funimation, 325 min. BD/DVD Combo $64.98), which collects the final 13 episodes of the third anime series produced by Satelight featuring awesome mecha that can be piloted (you guessed it) only by teens with special talents. Teenage power fantasies in Japan, which typically involve mecha, differ from those in the U.S. where the dominant trend is superheroes, but there are very entertaining works like the Aquarion saga produced in both countries.

Mecha fans will also find a new edition of a classic series available on Tuesday, Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (Right Stuf, 180 min., $29.95), which collects the six-episode OVA series from 1989, the first OVA series in the Gundam franchise—and one which ran on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim back in 2002, when the late night programming block was dominated by anime.

Also available on Tuesday is The World God Only Knows: Ultimate Collection (Sentai Filmworks, 1000 min., $79.99, BD $89.99), which collects the three 12-episode anime series produced by Manglobe (as well as some OVAs) based on the teenage romcom/parody manga created by Tamiki Wakaki.  While the elements of this saga, demon girls and game-obsessed glasses-wearing otaku, are overly familiar to anime fans, there is some real humor here along with the fan service and other familiar elements of the genre.

Also due on Tuesday is the subtitles-only Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigation Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks, 300 min., Subtitles Only, $49.98, BD $59.98), a mystery anime that aired in 2015 and is based on a series of light novels by Shion Ota about a beautiful young forensic anthropologist who solves mysteries with the aid of a teenage boy.  Anime fans looking for something a little different won’t be disappointed by this intriguing mystery series.