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THE LIST: DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores week of Feb. 16

DVDs
  “Law Abiding Citizen” (R): A victim of miscarried justice (Gerard Butler) vows vengeance after a plea bargain sets his family’s killers free. His No. 1 target: the prosecutor (Jamie Foxx) who engineered the deal.
  “Coco Before Chanel” (PG-13), meanwhile, profiles Gabrielle Chanel (“Amélie’s” Audrey Tautou) before she became a famed designer. (No surprise that this received an Academy Award nomination for best costumes.) In “From Mexico With Love” (PG-13), a washed-up trainer (Bruce McGill) takes on a self-destructive young boxer (Kuno Becker, who played a rising soccer star in “Goal!”), despite the objections of the town’s powerful boss (“Avatar” baddie Stephen Lang). And comedian Chris Rock narrates “Good Hair” (PG-13), a documentary look at the beauty, the splendor, the wonder of African-American hair, with comments from such notables as Maya Angelou, Nia Long, Eve, Tracie Thoms, Salli Richardson, Salt-n-Pepa and Raven-Symone.
  Leading off today’s “welcome to Las Vegas” lineup is a “welcome back” title: the “blaxploitation” spoof “Black Dynamite” (R), which played the CineVegas film festival and features Michael Jai White as the karate-chopping title character. The acclaimed “Hunger” (not rated), from British artist/filmmaker Steve McQueen, focuses on a 1981 hunger strike by IRA member Bobby Sands (“Inglourious Basterds’ ” Michael Fassbender) in a Belfast prison. Austria’s Oscar-nominated “Revanche” (not rated) centers on a star-crossed couple: a hooker and a brothel bouncer desperate to find a new life. Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carla Gugino, Connie Britton, Simon Baker and Marley Shelton headline “Women in Trouble” (R), a day in the life of 10 women, from a porn star to a psychiatrist. And, for the kids, animated antics abound in the unrated “Shaun The Sheep: A Woolly Good Time” and “Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies.”
  Movie buffs, meanwhile, have multiple reasons to celebrate. “Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros.” (R) gathers Eastwood’s studio output in a 19-disc set. Also on tap: the Blu-Ray Disc debuts of such classics as Martin Scorsese’s 1990 “GoodFellas” (R), Akira Kurosawa’s 1985 “Ran” (R), the 1955 Alec Guinness comedy “Lady Killers” (not rated) and director Marcel Ophuls 1955 melodrama 1955 “Lola Montes” (both unrated), along with 1974’s “Profumo Di Donna” (R), which was remade with Al Pacino as “Scent of a Woman.” Leading today’s TV transfers (all unrated): “Barnaby Jones: The Complete First Season,” “Lincoln Heights: Season One,” “Small Wonder: The Complete First Season,” “Lark Rise to Candleford: The Complete Season Two,” “Cannon: Season Two, Vol. Two,” “Kingdom: Series Three,” “The Guild: Season Three” and “Best of the Loretta Young Show, Seasons Three and Four.”

CDs
  Freeway & Jake One, “The Stimulus Package”: There was a time when Freeway was hurtlin’ down the fast lane to success.
  Signed to Jay-Z Roc-A-Fella Records, the burly MC was considered one of hip-hop’s brightest hopes when he dropped his 2003 debut.
  But he never lived up to those commercial expectations, and after taking a few years off from music to further focus on his Muslim faith, Freeway is back for a new chapter in his career, hooking up with producer Jake-One for the promising “The Stimulus Package,” which features guest spots from such notables as Beanie Sigel, Raekwon, Birdman and others.
  Finally, Freeway’s gridlock is over. 
  Also in stores: Jason Falkner, “I’m OK, You’re OK”; Juliana Hatfield, “Peace & Love”; Lightspeed Champion, “Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You”; Stacey Q, “Color Me Cinnamon”; Story of the Year, “The Constant”; and Tindersticks, “Falling Down a Mountain.”

BOOKS
  “Horns” by Joe Hill: Stephen King’s son, who made a name for himself with the best-seller “Heart-Shaped Box,” returns with a supernatural thriller featuring Ignatius Perrish, who after a drunken night doing horrible things, wakes with not only a hangover but a pair of horns growing out of his head.
  On the mystery front, Hanning Mankell, author of the series featuring Swedish detective Kurt Wallander, gives readers a stand-alone thriller with “The Man from Beijing,” which centers around the slaughter of 19 people in a Swedish hamlet.
  Also hitting shelves this week: “Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted” by Daniel G. Amen; “Eternal on the Water” by Joseph Monninger; “Hester” by Paula Reed; “The Last Surgeon” by Michael Palmer; “Ruby’s Spoon” by Anna Lawrence Pietroni; “The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire” by Jack Weatherford; and “Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard” by Chip Heath.
 

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