Con games, cartoons, cable TV and the second coming of Veronica Mars, all in a single week:

After the Dark. Don’t be fooled by the ambiguous promotion that might make you think this is actually a post-apocalypse adventure. It’s not. It’s a two-our gabfest filled with enactments of “what-if” scenarios mumbled through by a bunch of college students and an extremely serious James D’Arcy, complete with a woe-gives-a-crap “twist” ending. Seriously? Pass.

The Art of the Steal. We have a deep unnatural love for the con game/heist movie; blame it on a childhood infected by constant reruns of The Rockford Files and Banacek. So when you hear about a con/hesit picture with Kurt Russle, Jay Baruchels, Terence Stamp – The Limey himself! – and Matt Dillon at his sleaziest, you figure it’s got to be good. Which is might be, but it certainly was overlooked. Let’s DVD it together, shall we?

Eureka: Season Three. Confession: we have a soft spot for the rather silly semi-scifi comedrama that was Eureka. It was just so good-hearted and goofy – just the kind of thing you’d want to watch again when, say, you have a bad cold and you’re loaded up on Nyquil. Now you can get Season Three on DVD and enjoy it even when you’re not doped up on meds. Why the hell not?

DC Superheroes: The Filmation Adventure, Volume 2. Deep in the recesses of our collective childhood memories there is a garish, jerky little territory labeled “Filmation,” and it is there that the DC Superheroes still stand stiffly, moving only one arm and their mouths, and occasinoally sliding across the flattened lanscape like cut-outs. Now we can re-experience that unsettling world in DC Superheroes: The Filmation Adventures, Volume 2, available now.

Mr. Jones. We’ve talked before about the odd new found-footage film Mr Jones, the story of the reclusive artist, the evil effects his creepy scarecrow-sculptures have on people, and the nosy neighbors he stalks. It’s mini-theatrical release has come and gon e and now you can have it on DVD.

Veronica Mars. Nd best of all, Veronica Mars makes it to DVD. One of the rare instances where a reunion isn’t embarrassing or even pathetic, this one actually works, as Veronica, now a rising corporate attorney, return to her hometown and falls right back into the role of a wise-crackin’ murder-investigatin’ P.I. Like she was in high school. Just about everyone from the series, from her Dad to her boyfriend to her (formerly) nerdy hacker-bff, is along for the ride, and old, old VM fans like us were fully satisfied and yet still wanting more.