This week’s home entertainment offerings include the lightly likable cartoon Hotel Transylvania 3, the action-packed Skyscraper, a highly realistic look at the difficulties of Eighth Grade, the innovative spy thriller Killing Eve, and Gus Van Sant’s powerful biography of cartoonist John Callahan, Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot.

Theatrical Films

The biggest box office hit among this week’s theatrical releases on disc is the animated feature Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (Sony, “PG,” 200 min., $30.99, BD $38.99, 4K $45.99), which earned $164.2 million here in North America.  Inoffensive and geared for the younger set, Hotel Transylvania 3 is a mildly entertaining feature in which the cartoon Drac Pac goes on a cruise filled with animated slapstick that yields more laughs for the kids than it will for their parents. 

While not a hit on the scale of HT3, Skyscraper (Universal, “PG-13,” 103 min., $24.98, BD $38.98, 3D BD $45.98) was a moderately successful ($66.2 million) summer blockbuster starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson that delivers plenty of vertiginous thrills and edge-of-your-seat anxiety as The Rock attempts to rescue his family in this contrived, but effective thrill ride of a movie.

There are a number of offerings for those who enjoy indie films including Gus Van Sant’s powerful Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (Lionsgate, “R,” 114 min., $19.98, BD $24.98), a life-affirming, but often bitter, biographical film about cartoonist John Callahan, who was crippled in an auto accident at the age of 21.

Also definitely worth seeing is Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade (Lionsgate, “R,” 94 min., $13.99, BD $19.99), a powerful and realistic film that follows an awkward 13 year-old girl, who is trying to establish some sort of identity during her final week in junior high.  Eighth Grade was rated 98% positive by the critics surveyed by Rotten Tomatoes.

Less successful, but still interesting, is the near future dystopian thriller Hotel Artemis (Global Road, “R,” 94 min., $36.95, BD $44.95, 4K $49.95), which stars Jodie Foster as a nurse who works in a clandestine hospital for criminals in Los Angeles.

TV on DVD

This week’s very limited offerings include the Canadian mystery/romance series Private Eyes: Season 1 (Sony, $38.99), which stars Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson; the post-apocalyptic science fiction drama The 100: Season 5 (Warner Archives, 551 min., $24.98, BD $39.98), which debuted last April on the CW; and for those who enjoy the works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, there is a new edition of his 5-episode 1972 miniseries Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (Criterion, 495 min., $39.95, BD $49.95).

Also of interest is Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Killing Eve (BBC, 360 min., $24.98, BD $29.98), which stars Sandra Oh as a MI5 officer obsessed with tracking down an assassin.  This series is a sort of feminine take on what is typically the “masculine” espionage/spy genre—and the results are refreshingly unpredictable.  It is easy to see why this series earned a 97% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Anime

This week’s anime releases include the slice of life comedy romance Recovery of an MMO Junkie: The Complete Series (Funimation, “TV-14,” 275 min., BD/DVD Combo $64.98), which follows the saga of a career woman who quits her job to spend more time in a MMORPG in this 10 –episode (plus an OVA) 2017 series from Signal MO; and Nanbaka Part Two (Funimation, “TV-14,” 325 min., BD/DVD Combo $64.98), which includes episodes 14-25 from the 25-episode 2016-17 series from Satelight that adapts Sho Futamata’s prison comedy manga (published here digitally by Crunchyroll Manga).

Also of interest, especially to fans of old school anime is Zillion: The Complete Series (Funimation, “TV-14,” 825 min., Subtitles ONly BD/DVD Combo $64.98), which collects the complete 31-episode science fiction adventure anime from 1987 that is considered the first series from Production I.G.  Five of the original Zillion episodes were dubbed into English and released here by Streamline Pictures—note that this classic is presented here with its original Japanese audio track (and English subtitles).

Another interesting vintage anime release is Sailor Moon S: The Movie (Viz Media, “TV-14,” BD/DVD Combo $29.98), the second anime movie in Sailor Moon franchise, which appeared originally in 1994, and is presented here in high definition for the first time.  The movie is based on a side story by Sailor Moon creator Naoko Takeuchi, which in turn was inspired by Hans Christen Andersen’s The Snow Queen, the inspiration for Disney’s Frozen.