Movies

Dirty Harry (Action, Crime, Thriller)

The action thriller that began an action franchise, “Dirty Harry” releases for the first time on 4K Ultra HD and Digital Tuesday, April 29, from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment.

When detective Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood, “Gran Torino”) is assigned to pay extortion money to a serial murderer, the payoff goes wrong. Now, with the life of a 14-year-old girl at stake, Callahan refuses to allow anything — including the law — keep him from stopping the killer.

Directed by Don Siegel (“Escape from Alcatraz”), “Dirty Harry” was selected in 2008 by Empire as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. The film was ranked No. 41 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Years … 100 Thrills, a list of America’s most heart-pounding movies, and Harry Callahan was selected as the 17th greatest movie hero on 100 Years … 100 Heroes & Villains. The movie’s famous quote “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” was ranked 51st on 100 Years … 100 Movie Quotes.

The 4K release of “Dirty Harry” boasts two new featurettes — “Generations and ‘Dirty Harry’” and “Lensing Justice: The Cinematography of ‘Dirty Harry’” — plus hours of legacy bonus content. Viewers can listen to a commentary by Richard Schickel as well as watch two documentaries (“Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso” and “Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy — Fighting for Justice”), three additional featurettes (“Dirty Harry’s Way,” “Dirty Harry: The Original” and “American Masters Career Retrospective: Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows”) and an interview gallery featuring interviews with Patricia Clarkson, Joel Cox, Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Evan Kim, John Milius, Ted Post, Andy Robinson, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Urich.

The Outlaw Josey Wales (Drama, Western)

Based on the novel “Gone to Texas” by Forrest Carter, “The Outlaw Josey Wales” debuts on 4K Ultra HD and Digital Tuesday, April 29, from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment.

Clint Eastwood stars in and directs the fast-paced Western, which tells the story of a Missouri farmer whose family is murdered in the last days of the Civil War and his quest for vengeance.

“The Outlaw Josey Wales” was nominated for the Academy Award for original music score (Jerry Fielding, “The Wild Bunch”). In 1996, it was deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The 4K release contains two new featurettes — “An Outlaw and an Antihero” and “The Cinematography of an Outlaw: Crafting Josey Wales” — as well as the following legacy content: a commentary by Richard Schickel, the documentary “Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy — Reinventing Westerns” and the featurettes “Clint Eastwood’s West,” “Eastwood in Action” and “Hell Hath No Fury — The Making of ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales.’”

Pale Rider (Drama, Western)

Clint Eastwood returns to the Western genre with a vengeance with 1985’s “Pale Rider,” coming to 4K Ultra HD and Digital for the first time Tuesday, April 29, from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment.

In “Pale Rider,” Eastwood (who also directed the hit film) plays a nameless stranger who rides into a small California gold rush town and becomes known as “Preacher.” He finds himself in the middle of a feud between a mining syndicate and a group of independent prospectors.

Bonus features on the release include two new featurettes — “The Diary of Sydney Penny: Lessons from the Set” and “Painting the Preacher: The Cinematography of ‘Pale Rider’” — and three previously released documentaries: “Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy — Reinventing Westerns,” “Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story” and “The Eastwood Factor.”

Tombstone (Biography, Drama, History, Western)

Every town has a story — Tombstone has a legend. Experience the explosive, action-packed battle in 4K Ultra HD, as the 4K version of “Tombstone” is now available to own on Digital from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

In the film, U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell, “Escape from New York”), his brothers (Sam Elliott, “Road House,” and Bill Paxton, “Apollo 13”) and the outrageous Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer, “The Doors”) band together to bring law to the lawless in a notorious showdown at the O.K. Corral. An epic story of Wild West justice, the movie’s star-studded cast also includes Dana Delany (“Desperate Housewives”), Jason Priestley (“Beverly Hills, 90210”) and Michael Biehn (“The Rock”).

Bonus materials on the release include the three-part documentary “The Making of ‘Tombstone’” and the four-minute featurette “Director’s Original Storyboards: O.K. Corral Sequence.”

The Woman in the Yard (Drama, Horror, Thriller)

Blumhouse’s latest horror sensation, “The Woman in the Yard,” is now available to own on Digital. The supernatural tale debuts on Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday, May 27, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

“When the sun is bright and the wind is still, she comes to you like a sudden chill. Draped in black from head to toe, how she got there, you’ll never know.” With that cryptic warning, an otherworldly woman (Okwui Okpokwasili, “I am Legend”) sends a family into a seemingly inescapable nightmare. Already grieving the death of her husband, Ramona (Danielle Deadwyler, “Till”) faces a new fear when this mysterious figure appears outside her farmhouse. With the woman continually creeping closer, Ramona must protect her children from the chilling grasp of this haunting entity whose unknown intentions are anything but peaceful.

From director Jaume Collet-Serra (“Orphan”) and writer Sam Stefanak (“The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia”), “The Woman in the Yard” also stars Peyton Jackson (“Nobody’s Fool”), Estella Kahiha (“The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry”) and Russell Hornsby (“Fences”). Bonus features on the release include two behind-the-scenes featurettes. Viewers can travel through the darkest corners of the film in “Making ‘The Woman in the Yard’” to find out how the filmmakers worked with the cast to craft a story that is both haunting and human, and watch as the cast and filmmakers lift the veil on the film’s frightening figure to look at the themes, designs and styles that shaped her eerie specter into a powerful presence in “Beneath the Veil.”

Front Row Features is giving away a Digital copy of “The Woman in the Yard” to two lucky readers — while the film is still playing in select theaters! To win a Digital copy of the movie, simply email socalmovieeditor@aol.com by May 5 for your chance to win. Good luck!