Nicolas Cage plays a good cop gone bad There's a deranged grandeur to Nicolas Cage's performance in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" as he plays a police officer who plunges into drug addiction after a heroic on-the-job accident. While Cage's Lt. Terence McDonagh investigates a murder in post-Katrina New Orleans, cadging generous helpings of controlled substances along the way, he begins to resemble a dope-sick Richard III, his hunched shoulder as pronounced as his jones for anything he can snort or smoke.

Director Werner Herzog's New Orleans is a Wild West frontier of moral squalor, where everyone is jacked up or numb, including Terence's hooker girlfriend, played by the sensational Eva Mendes. Herzog has a sensualist's eye and ear for down and dirty pleasures, which are to be had in abundance in this squalid, improbably affecting portrait of compulsion at its most reptilian. The DVD and Blu-ray (First Look, $29-$30), out Tuesday, include interviews with members of the cast and crew, a featurette and an alternate trailer.

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Also out Tuesday: "Ally McBeal" (Season 2), "Dreamscape" (Blu-ray), "Eyes on The Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965," "Icons of Suspense: Hammer Films," "The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy" (Blu-ray; original versions) and "The Lord of the Rings" (animated), "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (Blu-ray), "Party Down" (Season 1), "Sharpe's Peril" and "Simon & Simon" (Season 4).