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A look at what's new on DVD today:

"Black Lightning" (2009)

Directed by Dmitriy Kiselev and Aleksandr Voytinskiy

Released by Universal Studios

"Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov produced this Russian action flick about a man and his flying car, using the same effects team that worked on all of his previous films including "Night Watch." A Russian trailer is here since where we're going, we don't need to understand words.

"7th Hunt" (2010)

Directed by Jon Cohen

Released by Vanguard Cinema

A motley group of young adults are abducted and forced to fend for their survival at an abandoned military training center in the middle of nowhere in Jon Cohen's thriller.

"Alien Vs. Ninja" (2010)

Directed by Seiji Chiba

Released by Funimation

A selection of last year's New York Asian Film Festival, Seiji Chiba's crazy genre mashup may just be "the best and wittiest movie ever to air at 2am on the SyFy Channel" in the future,...

Joan Collins will be making her way back to the big screen in a new independent film called "Fetish." The dark movie will begin filming this week in New York City.

The film tells the story of an iconic actress on the skids and making a play for a comeback with a late night talk show host. The screenplay for the film was written by Charles Casillo, who also stars in the film. Casillo was last know as the writer and director of the independent feature film, "Let Me Die Quietly," which received critical acclaim in last year's film festival circuit.

Director Matt Pellowski will helm the picture in association with his production company Red Line Studios.

In an interview with Liz Smith, Collins recently described the film as "Twilight Zone" meets "Sunset Boulevard" meets "David Letterman." The film will feature fashion designs by Mark Zunino, a protégé of Nolan Miller,...

Is it only fitting that Oral Fixation (now out on DVD from LifeSize) sucks? This isn’t even a horror flick—it’s a thriller with no bite, a bland, boring and badly acted low-budget Fatal Attraction clone that quickly grows long in the tooth. Ok, that’s enough bad mouth jokes; I’m truly and sincerely sorry, but for some reason this movie set my teeth on edge. Perhaps I was predetermined to dislike this film because of my own oral fixations—I talk too much, eat all the time, overindulge in sugar and am constantly chewing on my nails. I blame my mom. But enough about my psychological issues—let me give you a lesson in Oral history.

You thought Bill Murray was obsessed with dentists in Little Shop Of Horrors? Well, you haven’t met Rachel Marks (Emily Parker), a buxom, blonde stalker who is consumed (again,...