With five Tuesdays in April we have the dreaded "five-week" effect that typically results in a very weak slate of home entertainment releases, in this case providing only a well-constructed survival thriller (Arctic), a "Collector’s Edition" of all 8 seasons of Pendleton Ward’s Emmy-winning Adventure Time, and Catherine Hardwicke’s remake of the 2011 Mexican cartel shoot-'em-up Miss Bala.

Japanime has entered a distribution partnership with Dyskami Publishing for their line of licensed games based on Sailor Moon Crystal.

This week, Rob Salkowitz's column is dateline: Johannesburg, where he reports from the 27th ICON Comics and Gaming Convention.

It looks like the studios home entertainment divisions took Easter/Passover off this year since there are few releases of interest save for the spunky horror suspense film Escape Room, Karyn Kusama’s neo-noir Destroyer, and the ninth season of Shameless.

It’s springtime in the anime and manga world, as the con season heats up (this weekend it’s Anime Boston) and announcements start rolling out.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include the final film in M. Night Shyamalan’s superhero-themed Unbreakable trilogy, an underrated Arthurian fantasy for kids, a Keanu Reeves science fiction box office bomb, and the #3 anime movie of all time in the domestic theatrical market.

We round up geek TV news from the last few days.

This week's home entertainment offerings include a better-than-average dog movie, a comedy featuring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, a well-made biographical film about Ruth Bader Ginsberg's early career, and another excellent anime feature from director Mamoru Hosoda (Wolf Children).

USAopoly will release a new edition of Monopoly featuring characters from the popular My Hero Academia anime series.

The Netflix science fiction series Altered Carbon will be adapted into a tabletop RPG thanks to a licensing deal between Skydance Media and Hunters Entertainment.