THE LIST: DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores week of May 19

DVDS
  “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” (PG): Sitcom stalwart Kevin James stars and co-writes this comedy about a mild-mannered single dad trying to make ends meet as a New Jersey mall cop forced to take on insidious Santa’s Helpers.
  In “Valkyrie” (PG-13), Tom Cruise plays a different kind of hero, one of several high-ranking German officers in World War II plotting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Tom Wilkinson and Kenneth Branagh co-star in this fact-based thriller from “X-Men” director Bryan Singer.
  The made-in-Vegas indie “Yonkers Joe” (R), meanwhile, stars Chazz Palminteri as an old-school gambler whose mentally challenged son (Tom Guiry) complicates plans for a can’t-miss casino scam. Christine Lahti, Michael Lerner and “Law & Order’s” Linus Roache round out the starring cast.
  Elsewhere on the recent-release front, a remake of the 1981 slasher hit “My Bloody Valentine” (R) goes 3-D, as an innocent guy (“Supernatural’s” Jensen Ackles) who inadvertently triggered a 22-victim massacre 10 years ago returns home, only to become a murder suspect. And “Passion of the Christ’s” Jim Caviezel stars in “Outlander” (R), an outlandish Iron Age-meets-UFO mashup about a stranger who crashes in a Viking fjord — with a carnivorous predator as a passenger.
  Leading the foreign-language list: “Paris 36” (PG-13), about a group of old-school performers trying to revive a venerable neighborhood music hall amid the political unrest of 1930s Paris.
  Turning to titles that never played local theaters, the comedy “Fanboys” (PG-13) follows a group of “Star Wars” fanatics to George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch, where they plot to steal an early copy of “Episode I — The Phantom Menace.” Sam Huntington, Dan Fogler, Chris Marquette, Kristin Bell and Seth Rogen lead the cast. And Steven Seagal is “Driven to Kill” (R), playing a mobster-turned-novelist trying to save his family from violence.
  In today’s documentary file, Spike Lee’s “Kobe Doin’ Work” (not rated) follows Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant during the 2008 playoffs. Documentarian Stacy Peralta (“Dogtown and Z-Boys,” “Riding Giants”) focuses on two rival L.A. gangs in “Crips and Bloods: Made in America” (not rated), while “The Town That Was” (not rated) focuses on a 1962 trash fire that ignited a seam of anthracite coal — and burned for 20 years, transforming a Pennsylvania town into a disaster zone.
  Two at-long-last DVD debuts top today’s vintage lineup: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” (R), a 1973 thriller about a world-weary Boston gun-runner (a peak-form Robert Mitchum) caught between the crooks and the cops; and director Fritz Lang’s 1941 “Man Hunt” (not rated), about a celebrated big-game hunter (Walter Pidgeon) who just might be stalking Adolf Hitler.
  Paramount Pictures celebrates its centennial with a pair of aces  starring John Wayne: John Ford’s 1962 Western classic “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” which teams the Duke with James Stewart; and Howard Hawks’ 1967 Western “El Dorado,” featuring Mitchum and James Caan.
  A similarly starry array makes the jump to Blu-Ray Disc, led by the 1975 CIA thriller “Three Days of the Condor” (R), starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway; the 2001 CIA thriller “Spy Game” (R), which reunites Redford with Brad Pitt, his “River Runs Through It” star; and the 1998 Pixar computer-animated romp “A Bug’s Life” (G).
  Tuning in to TV-to-video transfers, William Shatner may not be in the new “Star Trek” big-screen relaunch, but he’s got “Invasion Iowa” (not rated) all to himself, as he and his colleagues fool a small Iowa town into believing they’re filming a new sci-fi flick.
A golden oldie, meanwhile, leads the series transfers: “Peyton Place: Part One” (not rated), the 1966 prime-time soap that teamed promising newcomers Mia Farrow and Ryan O’Neal with veterans Dorothy Malone and Ed Nelson. Other series arriving on DVD (all unrated) include HBO’s “True Blood: The Complete First Season,” with Oscar-winner Anna Paquin and Las Vegas Academy alumna Rutina Wesley, plus “8 Simple Rules: The Complete Second Season,” “Sister, Sister: The Second Season,” “Friday Night Lights: The Third Season” and “24: Season Seven.”

CDS
  Eminem, “Relapse”: A 12-step program with beats, Eminem’s latest disc, and first in five years, is a nightmare of drug-induced hysteria and self-doubt, a brutal, unflinchingly look at addiction and the psychic rubble left in its aftermath. 
  “I’m just a hooligan used to using hallucinogens,” he raps on an album-opening on “3 a.m.,” setting a pitch-black tone as he spins tales of childhood molestation and the substance abuse that would follow in later years.  
  It’s a harsh, brutal disc, a snapshot of a man staring into the abyss, unable to see the bottom that he knows he destined for.
  Still, Eminem has managed somehow to make it through to sobriety, now he’s all about clean living with a dirty mouth.    
  Sometimes it takes the specter death to remind you that you’re alive.
 Also in stores: Tori Amos, “Abnormally Attracted to Sin”; Busta Rhymes, “Back On My B.S.”; CKY, “Carver City”; Jarvis Cocker, “Further Complications”; Dane Cook, “Isolated Incident”; Jason Lytle, “Yours Truly, the Commuter”; Method Man and Redman, “Blackout! 2”; Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, “Palace and Stage”; Ruben Studdard, “Love IS”; John Vanderslice, “Romanian Names”; and Kate Voegele, “A Fine Mess.”

BOOKS
  “Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher Series No. 13)” by Lee Child: During a very early morning subway ride, Jack Reacher becomes suspicious of a female passenger. He believes she could be a suicide bomber, and when he confronts her, he sets in motion a chain of events that will have him chasing after the woman’s secrets, a pursuit that could get him killed.
  Also expected out this week is Larry King’s “My Remarkable Journey,” in which the TV host shares stories from his life in Depression-era Brooklyn to his many marriages and his climb up the ladder of success in radio and television.
  Also hitting shelves: “Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood” by Michael Lewis; “How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In” by Jim Collins; “The Secret Speech” by Tom Rob Smith; “The Sign” by Raymond Khoury; “Who’s Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success — and Won’t Let You Fail” by Keith Ferrazzi; “Whispers of the Dead” by Simon Beckett; “Martyr” by Rory Clements; and “Map of the Invisible World” by Tash Aw.