‘Ant-Man’ is a slick, entertaining caper picture

Ant-Man

Walt Disney, $29.99; Blu-ray, $32.99/$39.99

Available on VOD on Tuesday

Behind-the-scenes creative disagreements cast a long shadow over last summer entry, but it’s actually one of the more purely entertaining of the Marvel movies: a slick caper picture brightened by charismatic performances. Paul Rudd is surprisingly spry — and unsurprisingly funny — as Scott Lang, a tech-minded thief who gets recruited by a retired scientist-hero (played by Michael Douglas) to wear a super-powered suit and steal dangerous material back from some very bad guys. Because the suit allows Scott to shrink to insect-size, director Peyton Reed and a team of screenwriters play around a lot with perspectives, in a story that’s consistently surprising and witty. The movie should hold up well over time — perhaps even more than some of Marvel’s bigger blockbusters. The DVD and Blu-ray contain a commentary track, deleted scenes and a generous helping of featurettes.

Blind

Kimstim, $22.99

In writer-director Eskil Vogt’s imaginative Norwegian drama, Ellen Dorrit Petersen plays a recently blinded Oslo resident named Ingrid who copes with her loss of sight by fantasizing about the sexual desires of the lonely, inspired in part by the noises she hears around her apartment. Vogt stages and films Ingrid’s fictions as though they’re actually happening, tweaking the details as the heroine’s mind wanders. “Blind” has some bold things to say about how people’s deeper emotional needs are sometimes channeled through sexual fetish; but it’s mostly a dazzling technical achievement, reminiscent of a Charlie Kaufman-Spike Jonze film in the way its scenarios occur in multiple locales at once, with rotating casts and décor, reflecting Ingrid’s inability to keep her stories straight.

Jellyfish Eyes

Criterion, $29.95; Blu-ray, $39.95

Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami is best known for inventing the concept of “superflat,” an aesthetic heavily influenced by comic books and children’s cartoons. His first feature film is an extension of his paintings and sculpture, telling a story about rural school kids who command their own magical creatures — part Pokémon and part Tamagotchi. As with his art, Murakami pitches this film so that it can be watched as a straightforward family entertainment, or read as a metaphor for the way the younger generation gets manipulated and indoctrinated by the corporate-controlled media. Whatever the intention, the outcome is intriguingly askew. Criterion’s DVD and Blu-ray editions add interviews and featurettes.

Moana (with sound)

Kino Classics, $24.95; Blu-ray, $29.95

Tabu

Kino Classics, $24.95; Blu-ray, $29.95

Robert J. Flaherty was only a prospector-for-hire when he brought camera equipment up to Quebec and shot the footage that would become 1922’s “Nanook of the North,” the groundbreaking documentary that helped popularize the form. But that wasn’t the end of Flaherty’s filmmaking career. He later spent a year in Samoa to make 1926’s “Moana,” a portrait of island living anchored by a partly fictional coming-of-age story. He then returned to the South Seas to help director F.W. Murnau with the 1931 ethnographic romance “Tabu.” Both of those movies have been recently restored and are now being released on DVD and Blu-ray with bonus footage and featurettes. “Moana” also includes the soundtrack that Flaherty’s daughter Monica recorded for that film in the 1970s, using the ambient sounds and voices of Samoa.

And…

Knock Knock

Lionsgate, $19.98; Blu-ray, $19.99

Available now on VOD

Minions

Universal, $29.98; Blu-ray, $34.98/$49.98

Available on VOD Tuesday

Speedy

Criterion, $29.95; Blu-ray, $39.95

Thundercrack!

Synapse, $29.95; Blu-ray, $39.95

The Transporter Refueled

20th Century Fox, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.99

You Can’t Take It With You

Sony Blu-ray, $19.99