Thriller
Rod Lott
For the exploitation explorer on a budget, Mill Creek Entertainment’s loosely themed sets culled from the Crown International library are irresistible. With 12 female-centric films on three double-sided DVDs, “Dangerous Babes” promises “18 hours of hard-to-find cinematic classics,” and comes through on every word except “classics.”

Comedy
Rod Lott
I have missed seeing the work of John Landis on the big screen. Once a can’t-miss comedy director — “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “Trading Places,” “An American Werewolf in London” — he hasn’t had a film open wide since the deserved bombing of 1998’s dismal “Blues Brothers 2000.”