New on DVD

Gran Torino

(Warner Bros. Pictures, $29.95)

Gran Torino should’ve been called “Dirty Harry: The Twilight Years,” said Entertainment Weekly. Clint Eastwood stars as a Korean War vet displeased by Hmong immigration to his Detroit block. But after seeing a neighborhood boy bullied, he takes a stand, “dishing out old-school payback.”

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The Norman Lear Collection

(Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $159.95)

This is one for the “box set hall of fame,” said USA Today. The 19-disc collection includes the first seasons of producer Norman Lear’s greatest television programs, including All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, and The Jeffersons.

Jeeves and Wooster: The Complete Series

(A&E, $59.95)

Before he starred in House, Hugh Laurie played P.G. Wodehouse’s “empty-headed man of means,” Bertie Wooster, in this BBC series, said The Boston Globe. Stephen Fry co-stars as Jeeves, Wooster’s valet and ­beacon of “common sense.”