This week’s home entertainment offerings include the first Marvel Studios-produced Spider-Man movie, a fitting final tribute to Adam West’s Batman, the most successful R-rated comedy of the summer, the strong first season of the TV series based on Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, and a rare chance to see one of TV’s first great comedians in action.

Theatrical Movies

This week’s top release is Spider-Man: Homecoming (Sony, “PG-13,” 133 min., $30.99, BD $30.99, 3D $40.99, 4K $44.99), an aptly-named film if there ever was one since it marks Spidey’s return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (though Sony retains distribution rights).  Homecoming is not a Spidey origin story, it’s a Spidey “coming-of-age” saga that happens to tell the origin story of The Vulture (well-played by Michael Keaton), so Homecoming seems fresh in spite of coming in on the heels of all those other 21st Century Spidey movies.

Also of great interest this week is the animated direct to DVD feature Batman vs. Two-Face (Warner Bros., “PG,” 72 min., $19.98, BD $24.98), the second animated feature based on the campy 1960s Batman, and the final movie for actor Adam West.   West played a much lighter version of the Dark Knight in the 1960s live-action series, and voiced the character that way in last year’s Batman and the Return of the Caped Crusaders.  In this new adventure the Dark Knight takes on Two-Face, who is voiced by another iconic TV action star of the 1960s, William Shatner.  Burt Ward and Julie Newmar from the 1960s series reprise their roles as Robin and Catwoman, but it is West, who is the focus here with a funny and endearing performance in his swan song that serves as a fitting capstone to his time as the Caped Crusader.  Those who dislike the 1960s version of Batman should steer clear of this one, but for everyone else Batman vs. Two-Face will serve as a decent final tribute to the late Adam West and his “good guy” iteration of the Dark Knight of Gotham.

The #1 R-rated comedy of the summer, Girls Trip (Universal, “R,” 244 min., $29.98, BD $34.98), stars Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Regina Hall, and Tiffany Haddish as a quartet of women who travel to New Orleans for the Essence Festival where all sorts of shenanigans and hilarity ensues in a “raunchy, but right” comedy that doesn’t punish its protagonists in all too predictable fashion like another 2017 R-rated comedy Rough Night.

William Oldroyd’s serious drama film Lady Macbeth (Lionsgate, “R,” 90 min., $19.98, BD $24.98) is only tangentially related to Shakespeare.  It is an adaptation of the 19th Century Russian novel Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov about a young provincial woman stuck in a stultifying live as the wife of a man who is twice her age.  Oldroyd’s film is set in 1865 in rural England, and features a strong performance by Florence Pugh as a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage a la Madame Bovary.

Another indie production of interest is Gillian Robespierre’s Landline (Broad Green, “R,” 93 min., $29.98), a family drama/comedy set in 1990s New York and featuring two generations of a tightly-knit Italian/Jewish family beset with romantic conundrums.

This week’s most interesting documentary is Step (Fox, “PG,” 83 min., $19.99), the true story of a girls’ high school step team from Baltimore, who overcome considerable difficulties as they chase their dream of winning a step championship and getting admitted to college.

TV on DVD

This week’s top TV release is the first season of Bryan Fuller’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.  The 8-episode American Gods: Season 1 (Lionsgate, 448 min., $34.98, BD $39.98) comes with over two hours of pertinent and interesting extra features, but best of all Gaiman’s ambitious and relevant fantasy that pits the Gods of the old world against the new gods of our consumer culture survives the transition to the small screen intact.

Also of great interest to geek viewers is Mystery Science Theater 3000: Vol. 6 (Shout Factory, 360 min., $44.99), a reissue of the classic in which the MST3K crew make merciless fun of Teenagers From Outer Space, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Gunslinger, and Mr. B’s Lost Shorts.

Two contemporary sitcoms are due on Tuesday: the Kristen Bell/Ted Danson supernatural fantasy The Good Place: Season 1 (Shout Factory, 190 min., $19.97); and the CW series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: The Second Season (Warner Bros., 544 min., $29.99).

The animated TV on DVD releases of interest include the anime-influenced Teen Titans Go: Season 4, Part 1: Recess Is Over (Warner Bros., $19.94), and Vampirina: Vol. 1, Meet the New Girl on the Block (Disney, 92 min., $9.99), the first release from the new Disney computer animated series based on Anne Marie Pace’s series of Vampirina Ballerina books.

As usual there are several vintage TV releases, but this week there is one that stands out, Take a Good Look: The Definitive Collection (Shout Factory, 1,440 min., $69.97), which collects 49 episodes of a quiz show created by (and starring) Ernie Kovacs.  Anyone interested in the history of television comedy, or in comedy itself should check out this show, which was very much like other “quiz shows” of its era, save for the singular comic genius of Kovacs, one of the television medium’s key innovators.

Other vintage shows due on Tuesday include the 1960s rural/urban sitcom Green Acres: The Complete Series (Shout Factory, 4,245 min., $139.99), which starred Eddie Albert and Zsa Zsa Gabor; the short-lived 1993 western comedy/drama Harts of the West: The Complete Series (Mill Creek, 671 min., $14.98); the 1958-60 ABC crime series Man With a Camera: The Complete Series (Mill Creek, 783 min., $14.98) that made Charles Bronson a big star on the small screen; and the 1970s sitcom Rhoda: The Fifth and Final Season (Shout Factory, 330 min., $22.97).

The lone overseas release this week is Marcella: Series 1 (Acorn Media, 378 min., $49.99), a grueling police procedural that features a strong performance by Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies) as a London detective who returns to the force after her marriage goes south, and becomes involved in case with amazing twists and turns.

Anime

This week’s top release is the 2016 adaptation of Ichigo Takano’s slice-of-life romantic comedy manga Orange (published here by Seven Seas), Orange: The Complete Series (Funimation, 325 min., BD/DVD Combo $64.98, Ltd. Ed. $84.98), which includes all 13 episodes of the series from Telecom Animation Film that was simulcast by Crunchyroll.  The Limited Edition comes in a special “shimmering” art box, which includes a 40-page art book as well as six art cards.

Also out on Tuesday is the subtitles-only Super Lovers: Season 1 (Funimation, 275 min., Subtitles Only, BD/DVD Combo $64.98), which includes the first ten episodes (plus an OVA) of the 2016-2017 Studio Deen adaptation of the shojo shonen-ai (“boys’ love) manga by Miyuki Abe.

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions Rikka Version (Sentai Filmworks, 96 min., BD $39.98) is an anime film cut from the 2012 Kyoto Animation series based on the Love, Chunibyo light novel series by Torako, about a ninth grader who is trying to shed his delusions.   This version presents the first season footage and narrative from point of view of the protagonist’s delusional girlfriend.

Important continuing series releases due on Tuesday include Naruto Shippuden Uncut Set 32 (Viz Media, 350 min, $39.99), which contains episodes 403-416 of the long-running anime based on the popular martial arts manga by Masashi Kissimoto, and Hunter x Hunter: Set 3 (Viz Media, 600 min., BD $49.99), which includes 24 episodes of the 148-episode 2011-2014 series from Madhouse based on the manga by Yoshihiro Togaashi, which is now being presented here in high definition for the first time.  (The first two BD releases were 13 episodes, but Set 3 includes 24.