52 Pick-Up gets a sharp new presentation and some welcome bonus materials from Kino Lorber.
Joe Kidd ambles onto Blu-ray with an exemplary transfer and a couple of interesting extras.
Frankenheimer’s 1986 crime film is enlivened by a surprisingly astute understanding of the social varieties of caste power.
King shrewdly connects Hodges’s torment, the stuff of formula cop movies, to larger American feelings of rootlessness and economic despair.
Eastwood’s other western trilogy won’t be challenged, but this set gives an interesting view of a star at a crucial crossroads in his career.