‘Spaceballs’ Animated Series, ‘Force: Five’ Available on Disc in MVD Rewind Collection

Spaceballs: The Totally Warmed Animated Adventures! and the actioner Force: Five are available on disc in the MVD Rewind Collection from MVD Entertainment Group.

Spaceballs: The Totally Warmed Animated Adventures!, available on DVD, is based on Mel Brooks’ 1987 Star Wars spoof Spaceballs. It follows the adventures of Yogurt, President Skroob, Lone Starr, Barf, Princess Vespa and the dastardly, dorky Dark Helmet. Directed and voiced by Mel Brooks and featuring voices from the film’s original stars Daphna Zuniga and Joan Rivers, the series pokes fun at everything from pop culture and politics to megahit movies and more. The release includes all 13 episodes plus the two-part pilot episode. Bonus materials include the Spaceballs (1987) original theatrical trailer; the Spaceballs 2 (2027) teaser trailer; a collectible mini-poster; and a limited edition slipcover.

In Force: Five, available on Blu-ray Disc, a powerful and dangerous cult, hidden on a remote island fortress, has brainwashed the daughter of a U.S. senator. With local authorities powerless and time running out, the government turns to a highly specialized team of martial arts experts known as “Force: Five.” Led by seasoned agent Jim Martin, the team includes five elite fighters, each with unique combat skills — from unarmed street-fighting and karate to high-impact kickboxing. Their mission: infiltrate the island compound, uncover the secrets of the cult’s charismatic and manipulative leader, and rescue the senator’s daughter before she becomes permanently indoctrinated — or worse. From writer-director Robert Clouse, the auteur of Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon and Jackie Chan’s The Big Brawl, the film features a diverse cast of martial arts legends, including Joe Lewis (Bloodfight 2: The Deathcage), Bong Soo Han (Kill the Golden Goose), Sonny Barnes (Black Belt Jones), Benny “The Jet” Urquidez (Dragons Forever) and Richard Norton (Mad Max: Fury Road), as well as Amanda Wyss (A Nightmare on Elm Street). Bonus materials include an archival interview with actor Joe Lewis; an archival interview with Benny Urquidez; an archival “Benny Urquidez Fight” featurette; the original theatrical trailer; a collectible mini-poster; and a limited edition slipcover.

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1987’s ‘Retribution’ Among Horror Titles Due on Disc Feb. 24 From Severin and MVD

The horror titles The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection 3, 1963’s The Ghost and 1987’s Retribution are being released on disc Feb. 24 from Severin Films and MVD Entertainment Group.

Also available Feb. 24 from MVD and Severin is a Matt LeBlanc drama from the director of Retribution.

The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection 3 is a seven-disc collection with six films in both 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray. The collection includes 16 hours of special features and a new 142-page book. The teensploitation classic Beat Girl, available in the original theatrical and extended U.K. cuts, stars Lee as the wolfish operator of a Soho strip club. He portrays a sleazy blackmailer in The Hands of Orlac, presented in separate French and U.K. versions. Directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Lee as a disfigured madman, the worldwide UHD/Blu-ray premiere of The Virgin of Nuremberg is a two-disc collection that sets new standards in Italian Gothic cruelty. Arabian Adventure is director Kevin Connor’s all-star family adventure showcasing Lee as a dastardly Caliph. Lee is a menacing teacher at an exclusive boys boarding school in A Feast at Midnight, directed by Justin Hardy. With recollections by family, friends and Lee himself, the documentary The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee reveals the screen legend like never before.

Retribution (1987) is making its worldwide 4K UHD premiere. The two-disc collection includes the theatrical and unrated versions scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with more than three hours of special features. In 2021, Severin Films resurrected the forgotten classic from co-writer/director Guy Magar on Blu-ray. But in 2025, the search of a Los Angeles lab vault led to the discovery of the unclaimed negative for the thought-lost unrated version just days prior to its destruction. Magar’s neon and viscera-soaked saga of possession, vengeance and carnage stars Dennis Lipscomb (Eyes of Fire), Leslie Wing (The Frighteners), Suzanne Snyder (Weird Science) and Hoyt Axton (Gremlins).

Seven years after unleashing Retribution, filmmaker Guy Magar rolled the dice to write, produce and direct the low-budget mob drama Lookin’ Italian, which introduced an unknown Matt LeBlanc only months before landing his breakout role in “Friends.” In the film, having survived a New York City shootout gone horrifically wrong, a former mafioso (Jay Acovone of “Beauty and the Beast” and “Stargate SG-1”) is now living a quiet life working in a Los Angeles used bookstore. But when his reckless nephew (LeBlanc) gets involved with local gang culture, they’re both dragged into an unforgiving urban jungle where fear is weakness, vengeance is destiny and family bonds can never be broken. Three-time Grammy-winning soul legend Lou Rawls co-stars — with Denise Richards in one of her earliest film roles — in the film now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with two hours of special features that include a long-unseen 1993 on-set interview with LeBlanc.

The Ghost is available on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Disc, including four hours of special features. Direct from its 2025 premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, the 1963 film, set in turn-of-the-century Scotland, follows a young wife (Barbara Steele) who conspires with her lover to murder her wealthy paralyzed husband. But when the dead spouse’s spirit returns, it unlocks a nightmare of spectral terror, sudden violence and depraved vengeance. Peter Baldwin (The Weekend Murders) and Harriet Medin (The Whip and the Body) co-star in the Italian horror classic co-written by Freda and Oreste Biancoli (Bicycle Thieves), newly scanned in 4K from the thought-lost original camera negative and restored by Severin Films with four hours of special features.

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‘Predator: Badlands’ Hulu, Disc Release Celebration

This month, “Predator” fans enjoyed a hunt of their own, as they visited local Los Angeles horror venues — Slasher World, Horror Vibes Coffee and Killer Fitness — for photo opps, custom beverages, and a Yautja-themed workout during the week leading up to the Feb. 12 Hulu streaming and Feb. 17 DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD disc release of Predator: Badlands.

Each venue gave away movie merchandise, along with pairs of tickets to an exclusive screening event featuring Predator: Killer of Killers and Predator: Badlands on Feb. 11, with a “Father Predator” meet and greet, followed by a Q&A with director Dan Trachtenberg, “Dek” actor Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, and special FX supervisor Alec Gillis.

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‘The Choral’ Available on Premium Digital Now, on Disc March 17

The Sony Pictures Classics drama The Choral, starring Ralph Fiennes, is available now for premium digital rental and sale, and will be released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD March 17 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

In the film, as WWI rages on, the choral society in a small English town has lost most of its men to the army. The choral’s committee is determined to press ahead with new recruits. They engage a driven new chorus master, Dr. Henry Guthrie — recently returned from a career in Germany. As conscription papers start to arrive, the community discovers that the best response to the war is to make music together.

Directed by Nicholas Hytner, the film also stars Roger Allam, Mark Addy, Alun Armstrong, Robert Emms and Simon Russell Beale.

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1998 Jean-Claude Van Damme Actioner ‘Knock Off’ Due on 4K and Blu-ray Disc Feb. 17 From MVD

The 1998 Jean-Claude Van Damme actioner Knock Off will be released on 4K Ultra HD Disc and Blu-ray Disc Feb. 17 in the MVD Rewind Collection from MVD Entertainment Group and Moonstone8.

Van Damme stars in the thriller set in Hong Kong’s shady manufacturing scene during the 1997 handover to China. When a shipment of jeans to the U.S. proves counterfeit, Marcus Ray, the “King of the Knock-Offs” (Van Damme), finds himself at the center of a Russian Mafia plot to hold the United States security for ransom. Thousands of tiny micro-bombs, disguised within other manufactured goods, are scheduled for departure from Hong Kong to America. When Ray’s company’s jeans are found to be the housing for the explosives, he’s the one man the CIA can count on to prevent certain disaster. In a territory where loyalty can change hands overnight, Marcus Ray’s survival will depend on him knowing the fakes from the real thing. The film also stars Rob Schneider.

Special features include archival audio commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema; a collectible Knock Off “4K LaserVision” mini-poster; a new interview with writer Steven E. de Souza; a new interview with Moshe Diamant; an archival 2020 interview with Steven E. de Souza; an archival making-of featurette; the original theatrical trailer; reversible cover art; and a limited-edition slipcover for the first pressing only.

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Hong Kong Drama ‘Pretty Heart’ Available on Blu-ray From BayView

The Hong Kong drama Pretty Heart is available on Blu-ray Disc from BayView Entertainment.

When a hardworking young teacher gets fed up with the praise heaped upon a cram school teaching superstar, she investigates on her own to find the reasons behind her students’ obsession. Connecting with the cram teacher, she starts a flirtation that is derailed when she’s involved in an accident that affects her family.

Produced by Fruit Chan (Bride Wars, The Invincible Dragon) and directed by Ka-Wai Ng, the film stars Jennifer Yu, Ho-Shun Wong, Hugo Ng, Kar-Ying Law and Tsz-Wai Suen.

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Chinese Romance ‘Almost Love’ Available on Blu-ray From BayView Entertainment

The Chinese comic romance Almost Love is available on Blu-ray Disc from BayView Entertainment via the manufacture-on-demand service Allied Vaughn.

In the film, a woman returns to the city she grew up in, recounting a relationship she started with a fellow student during the hardships of test season. With the pressure to please their family and still follow their dreams, they seek to find a balance to continue down their life paths, which proves a true test of their love.

The film stars Wenhan Li and Ruohan Xu.

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Jean-Claude Van Damme Starrer ‘Double Impact’ Due on 4K Ultra HD Feb. 17 From MVD

The 1991 Jean-Claude Van Damme actioner Double Impact will be released on 4K Ultra HD plus Blu-ray Disc combo pack Feb. 17 from MVD Entertainment Group in its MVD Rewind Collection.

Van Damme leaps into the dual roles of Chad and Alex Wagner, twin brothers who were separated after their parents’ brutal murder. Years later, the two couldn’t be more different: Chad is a slick Beverly Hills fitness instructor, while Alex is a rough and tumble smuggler on the gritty streets of Hong Kong. But when fate throws them together again, Chad and Alex discover that there’s one thing they have in common: they’re both fighting machines. Determined to enact revenge on their parents’ killers, the martial-arts experts kick, chop and shoot all the way to an electrifying final showdown aboard a gargantuan freighter in Hong Kong harbor.

The release features a director-approved 2025 4K scan and restoration (2160p, 16-bit scan of the original camera negative) of the movie presented in 1.85: 1 aspect ratio in HDR (4K Ultra HD Disc). Special features include a collectible Double Impact “4K LaserVision” mini-poster; reversible cover art; “The Making of Double Impact: Part 1″ (HD) and “The Making of Double Impact: Part 2″ (Blu-ray); deleted and extended scenes; “Anatomy of a Scene,” with director Sheldon Lettich; a 1991 behind-the-scenes featurette; “Double Impact: B-Roll Selections,” featuring raw, behind-the-scenes footage from the set; “Double Impact: Film Clips,” with five full-frame clips from the film for use in TV promos; cast and crew interview clips from 1991 featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Moshe Diamant and Charles Layton; the “Double Impact MVD Rewind Collection Promo”; the original theatrical trailer; and a limited-edition slipcover for the first pressing only.

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‘Anaconda’ Available Now via Premium Digital, on Disc March 17

The comedic Anaconda remake is available now for premium digital rental and sale, and will be released on DVD, Blu-ray Disc and as a 4K Ultra HD combo pack March 17 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

The film has earned $128.2 million at the global box office.

In the film, Doug (Jack Black) and Griff (Paul Rudd) have been best friends since they were kids, and have always dreamed of remaking their all-time favorite movie: the cinematic “classic” Anaconda. When a midlife crisis pushes them to finally go for it, they head deep into the Amazon to start filming. But things get real when an actual giant anaconda appears, turning their comically chaotic movie set into a deadly situation.

Special features include outtakes and bloopers, deleted and extended scenes, and the featurettes “A Ride Into Chaos with Jack & Paul,” “Friends in the Wild: The Cast,” “The Snake Charmer: Tom Gormican” and “Reinventing the Legend: Anaconda.”

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Oscar-Nominated ‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ to Debut on Blu-ray March 10

The Academy Award-nominated film Little Amélie or the Character of Rain will debut on Blu-ray Disc March 10.

Adapted from the autobiographical novel by Amélie Nothomb and directed by Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han, the animated feature from Gkids and Shout! Studios is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film.

In the film, for the first years of her life, Amélie never makes a sound. But when her grandmother visits and offers a miraculous bite of chocolate, Amélie suddenly awakens to all the world’s wonders. As she explores her home in post-war Japan, Amélie forms a close bond with her family’s housekeeper, Nishio-san, and discovers new delights in every flower petal, koi pond, and raindrop.

Bonus materials include animation breakdowns and interviews with directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han.

The film was released for digital purchase and rental Dec. 9.

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