DVD previews: 'Sicario,' 'The Visit,' 'The Walk'

Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Jan. 5:

“Sicario” (R, 121 minutes, Lionsgate): An FBI agent (Emily Blunt) is recruited to join a government anti-drug task force on a shadowy mission inside Mexico. Directed by Denis Villeneuve (“Incendies,” “Prisoners,” “Enemy”). Contains strong violence, grisly images and language. Extras include “Stepping Into Darkness: The Visual Design of Sicario” featurette, “Blunt, Brolin & Benicio: Portraying the Characters of Sicario” featurette, “Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario” featurette and “A Pulse From the Desert: The Score of Sicario” featurette.

“The Visit” (PG-13, 94 minutes, Universal): “The Sixth Sense” director M. Night Shyamalan returns to form with this documentary-style suspense thriller about a young brother and sister who discover things aren't right when they visit their grandparents' farm. Contains frightening images, brief nudity and coarse language. Extras include alternate ending, deleted scenes, “The Making of The Visit” and “Becca's Photos.”

“The Walk” (PG, 123 minutes, Sony): Dramatization of high-wire artist Philippe Petit's walk on a steel cable between the World Trade Center towers in 1974; Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Petit. Contains thematic elements involving perilous situations, some nudity, profanity, brief drug references and smoking. Extras include “Pillars of Support” featurette. Blu-ray adds deleted scenes and two featurettes: “First Steps” and “The Amazing Walk.”

“Irrational Man” (R, 95 minutes, Sony): Woody Allen's latest stars Joaquin Phoenix as a small-town college professor who gets involved with both another professor (Parker Posey) and — this being Allen — a student (Emma Stone). Contains some obscenity and sexual content. Extras include “On the Red Carpet: Los Angeles Film Premiere” featurette and a photo gallery.

“The Green Inferno” (R, 101 minutes, Universal): More gory horror from Eli (“Hostel”) Roth: College students trying to save an Amazon tribe from exploitation are captured by cannibals. Contains violence and torture, grisly disturbing images, brief graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use. Extras include commentary with co-writer, director and producer Roth, producer Nicolas Lopez, and stars Lorenza Izzo, Aaron Burns, Kirby Bliss Blanton and Daryl Sabara.

“Infinitely Polar Bear” (R, 90 minutes, Sony): A child's-eye view of manic-depression, with laughs, this semi-autobiographical tale is marred by a mannered performance by Mark Ruffalo and jarring shifts in tone. Contains crude language. Extras include deleted scenes; commentary with Ruffalo, Maya Forbes and producer Wally Wolodarsky; and a Q&A from the Los Angeles Film Festival with cast and filmmakers.

Also: “Battle for Skyark” (rebels fight both alien invaders and corrupt human leadership), “A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story” (documentary about an anti-bullying activist), “Captive” (a man on the run from police takes a woman hostage in her apartment), “Deathgasm” (teen members of a heavy metal band delve into black magic), “Elmo's World: Elmo Wonders” (new compilation starring the “Sesame Street” character), “Experimenter” (dramatization of the '60s psychology experiments in which people were told to give electric shocks to strangers), “Full of Grace” (the final days of Mary of Nazareth), “Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser” (sequel to the 2001 David Spade comedy), “Kill Game” (serial killer hunts down the murderers of an innocent boy), “Mercury Plains” (a young man is recruited to fight Mexican drug cartels), “Shanghai” (John Cusack stars in a murder mystery set in Shanghai the week before the Pearl Harbor attack), “Sleeping With Other People” (two commitment-phobes try to keep their friendship platonic despite sexual tension), “Susie's Hope” (a woman and an abused dog form an inspiring relationship in a true-life story).

Television series: “Ancient Aliens: Season 8” (two-disc set with 10 episodes), “Flesh and Bone” (eight episodes of the Starz series), “It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 10” (two-disc set with 10 episodes).