THE LIST: DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores week of Aug. 24

DVDS
  “The Back-up Plan” (PG-13): A New York pet store owner (Jennifer Lopez) undergoes artificial insemination and immediately meets Mr. Right (Alex O’Loughlin), creating allegedly comic complications for the fated-to-be-mated couple.
  And everybody’s got a secret in “City Island” (PG-13), a beguiling slice-of-ethnic-life comedy set in the title Bronx fishing enclave, where a prison guard (Andy Garcia) with acting aspirations disrupts his already dysfunctional family even further when he brings home a young ex-con (“10,000 BC’s” Steven Strait). Julianna Margulies, Alan Arkin, Emily Mortimer, Ezra Miller and Dominik Garcia-Lorido (Andy’s daughter) round out the cast for writer-director Raymond De Felitta (“Two Family House”). In “Survival of the Dead” (R), the sixth chapter of horror auteur George A. Romero’s long-running “Night of the Living Dead” franchise, zombie fighters try to restore their undead relatives’ humanity while battling a zombie epidemic. And on the documentary front, “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” (not rated) provides a lively close-up of Emmy-winning TV pioneer Gertrude Berg, who created, wrote and starred in “The Goldbergs,” which enjoyed a 17-year run on radio — and became TV’s first character-driven domestic sitcom.
  Moving on to titles that never played local theaters, Christopher Walken stars as a con artist trying to reconnect with his son (Alessandro Nivola) in “$5 a Day” (PG-13), which co-stars Sharon Stone, Amanda Peet, Dean Cain and Peter Coyote. A new version of Oscar Wilde’s “Dorian Gray” (R) casts Ben Barnes (“The Chronicles of Narnia’s” Prince Caspian) as the title libertine and Colin Firth as his dissipated mentor. The late Brittany Murphy joins Dean Cain and Mimi Rogers in the thriller “Abandoned” (PG-13), while Val Kilmer and Mick Rossi team up for the jewelry heist “2:22” (R). The Australian thriller “The Square” (R) tracks the downfall of a hapless construction overseer (David Roberts) desperate to hold onto his illicit lover (Claire van der Boom). And, in 2055, a lone archivist (Pete Postlethwaite) ponders why humanity didn’t save itself when it had the chance in “The Age of Stupid” (not rated).
  It’s a Blu-ray bonanza in today’s vintage vault, with director Terry Gilliam’s 1981 fantasy “Time Bandits” (PG) joining such gangster favorites as 1980’s “The Long Good Friday” (R) and 1986's “Mona Lisa” (R), both starring Bob Hoskins. And the Oscar-winning 1927 gangster saga “Underworld” is only one of “Three Silent Classics By Josef von Sternberg” (not rated) from those wonderful folks at the Criterion Collection; the others are 1928’s “The Last Command,” featuring Emil Jannings’ Oscar-winning portrayal of an an exiled Russian military officer turned Hollywood actor, and 1928’s “The Docks of New York,” about the romance between a roughneck stoker and a world-weary dancer.
  Tuning in to TV transfers (all unrated unless otherwise indicated), Las Vegas’ own “Pawn Stars: Season Two” leads a field ranging from “Lost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season” (PG-13) to “The Simpsons: The 13th Season.” Also on tap: “90210: The Second Season,” “Gossip Girl: The Complete Third Season,” “The Patty Duke Show: The Complete Third Season,” “Ax Men: The Complete Season Three,” “Gangland: Season Five,” “NCIS: The Seventh Season” and “Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Collection.”

CDS
  Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, “Hawk”: It’s like night and day — literally.
  Her voice conveys sunshine, his is like a solar eclipse of the soul.
  Teaming up together for the third time, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan come with still more equally beatific and broken songs.
  Sadness is seldom so seductive.  
  Also in stores: Dead Confederate, “Sugar”; The Devil Wears Prada, “Zombie (EP)”; Joe Diffie, “Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album”; Eels, “Tomorrow Morning”; Fantasia, “Back to Me”; Fitz & the Tantrums, “Pickin’ Up the Pieces”; JP, Chrissie & The Fairground Boys, “Fidelity!”; Little Big Town, “The Reason Why”; Mogwai, “Special Moves”; Katy Perry, “Teenage Dream”; Ricky Skaggs, “Mosaic”; Marty Stuart, “Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions”; The Sword, “Warp Riders”; and Usher, “Versus.”

BOOKS
  “Spider Bones” by Kathy Reichs: The 13th installment in the Temperance Brennan series finds the forensic anthropologist with three bodies on her hands, all identified as an American soldier declared dead in 1968.
  Suzanne Collins wraps up her young adult Hunger Games trilogy with “Mockingjay,” featuring Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world where children are forced to fight to the death as entertainment for the masses.
  Also hitting shelves: “Bad Boy” by Peter Robinson; “Bearers of the Black Staff” by Terry Brooks; “The Black Prism” by Brent Weeks; “Comedy in a Minor Key” by Hans Keilson; “Dog Tags” by David Rosenfelt; “The Evolutionary Void” by Peter Hamilton; “Juliet” by Anne Fortier; “Sabotaged” by Margaret Haddix; “The Thousand” by Kevin Guilfoile; and “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival” by John Vaillant.