THE LIST: DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores week of Jan. 6

DVDS
  “Pineapple Express” (R): Seth Rogen and James Franco prove a great team in this latest romp from producer Judd Apatow’s comedy factory, about a hapless stoner (Rogen) who witnesses a murder — and runs for his life with his even more hapless pot dealer (Franco) in tow.
  A far more serious duo — Robert De Niro and Al Pacino — headlines “Righteous Kill” (R), about veteran New York City detectives trying to figure out the connection between a current murder and a case they thought they had solved years ago.
  Nicolas Cage, meanwhile, plays a lone-wolf hit man in “Bangkok Dangerous” (R), bonding with his errand boy — and falling for a deaf-mute shopgirl — while on assignment in Thailand.
And it’s back to the future for Vin Diesel in “Babylon A.D.” (PG-13), as a post-apocalyptic mercenary escorts a mysterious young woman (Melanie Thierry) and her guardian (Michelle Yeoh) try to elude sinister kidnappers on an odyssey from Russia to New York.
  The folks behind “Scary Movie,” “Date Movie” and “Epic Movie,” meanwhile, continue their downward spiral with “Disaster Movie” (PG-13), in which unsuspecting 20-somethings (led by Matt Lanter and Vanessa Minnillo) find themselves bombarded by a variety of natural catastrophes — and takeoffs of movies from “Cloverfield” to “The Dark Knight.”
  From the indie file, “The Wackness” (R), which played last year’s CineVegas film festival, focuses on a college-bound misfit (Josh Peck) who spends the summer of ‘94 peddling dope, trading marijuana to his pothead psychiatrist (Ben Kingsley) in exchange for therapy while he pursues the doctor’s stepdaughter (“Juno’s” Olivia Thirlby).
  Turning to movies that never played local theaters, the travails of job-hunting inspire the timely comedy “Entry Level” (not rated), with D.B. Sweeney, Missi Pyle and Kurtwood Smith. And a basketball-obsessed Chinese-American slacker (Jimmy Tsai) teaches table tennis at a Los Angeles community center in the comedy “Ping Pong Playa” (PG-13).
  Topping the foreign-film lineup: “The Grocer’s Son” (not rated), a French drama about a big-city dweller who’s forced to return home to Provence when his father falls ill. And in China’s “Blind Mountain” (not rated), a college student (Lu Huang) travels to a remote village with two strangers — and finds herself sold into slavery.
  On the documentary front, “Inheritance” (not rated) chronicles the fateful meeting between a Holocaust survivor and the daughter of the concentration camp commandant played by Ralph Fiennes in “Schindler’s List.”
  Tuning in to TV transfers, Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner and Chris Sarandon headline a stage version of “Cyrano de Bergerac” (not rated) scheduled for PBS telecast Wednesday.
  Another PBS special, “A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway” (not rated) follows America’s first coast-to-coast highway, from New York to San Francisco. And the 1990 TV-movie “The Plot to Kill Hitler” (not rated) covers the same territory as the new big-screen “Valkyrie,” with Brad Davis as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the German army officer leading the conspiracy. (Tom Cruise plays Stauffenberg in “Valkyrie.”)
  Other TV titles (all unrated) hitting DVD today include “Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.0,” “The Tudors: Season 2,” “The Waltons: The Complete Eighth Season,” “Mannix: The Second Season,” “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Collection 3” and “Laredo: Season 2, Part 2.”

CDS
  The BPA, “I Think We’re Going To Need A Bigger Boat”: You know him best as Fatboy Slim, and now Norman Cook has another handle to go by.
  The BPA, or Brighton Port Authority, is the latest project from the celebrated British beatsmith, who’s rounded up a star-studded crew of collaborators including Dizzee Rascal, David Bryne and Iggy Pop.
  As expected, the results are as diverse as those dudes’ resumes, meaning that this is a disc that busts moves and genre distinctions in the same breath. 
  Also in stores: Chatham County Line, “Chatham County Line”; Glasvegas, “Glasvegas”; The Gourds, “Haymaker!”; The King Khan & BBQ Show, “Animal Party (EP)”; Erin McCarley, “Love, Save the Empty”; Neil Sedaka, “Waking Up Is Hard to Do”; and Various Artists, “Undone: A MusicFest Tribute to Robert Earl Keen.”

BOOKS
  Fans of Janet Evanovich have something to look forward to this week as her new book hits shelves.
  In “Plum Spooky,” bounty hunter Stephanie Plum sets her sights on Martin Munch, a boy genius wanted for failure to appear in court.
  Of course there’s much more to this novel, including an opportunist in search of world domination, a hot bounty hunter named Diesel, as well as lots and lots of monkeys.
  Also coming out this week is “Bones of the Dragon,” the first in the “Dragonships of Vindras Series,” by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. This new epic fantasy series features heroes, dragons, gods and magic. What more could a fantasy reader ask for.
  Other books hitting shelves this week: “Becoming Enlightened” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; “Daemon” by Daniel Suarez; “Eclipse” by Richard North Patterson; “GUILTY: Liberal ‘Victims’ and Their Assault on America” by Ann Coulter; “Lark and Termite” by Jayne Anne Phillips; “Three Weeks to Say Goodbye” by C.J. Box; “Sing Them Home” by Stephanie Kallos; “Eat, Drink, and Be from Mississippi” by Nanci Kincaid; “The Little Giant of Aberdeen County” by Tiffany Baker; and “Fidali’s Way” by George Mastras.