THE LIST: DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores week of Sept. 15

DVDS
  “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (PG-13): Hugh Jackman returns as Marvel Comics’ adamantium-clawed title character in a prequel that explores how he’s driven to join the for-mutants-only Weapons X program — by the murderous back-stabbing of his lifelong brother-in-arms, Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber).
  “Easy Virtue” (PG-13), meanwhile, serves up a deliciously cheeky Noel Coward adaptation, set in the 1920s, about an upper-crust Brit (“Prince Caspian’s” Ben Barnes) who marries a glamorous American race car driver (Jessica Biel) and brings her home to shake up his stuffy parents (Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas). In “Next Day Air” (R), colorful cutthroats vie for possession of 10 bricks of cocaine inadvertently overnighted to the wrong address; Donald Faison, Mike Epps and Debbie Allen star. And the documentary “Trumbo” (PG-13) profiles screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, tracing his journey from Hollywood royalty to blacklist victim to Oscar winner.
  One of the all-time great Westerns, meanwhile, makes its at-long-last DVD debut: director John Ford’s 1950 classic “Wagon Master” (not rated), about a westward-bound wagon train. (Star Ward Bond went on to lead TV’s long-running “Wagon Train.”) For a perfect double bill, Peter Bogdanovich’s 2006 documentary “Directed by John Ford” (not rated) includes insights from Ford stars John Wayne, James Stewart and Henry Fonda, along with legendary filmmakers from Clint Eastwood to Orson Welles.
  Also due on DVD today: “Essential Art House” classics “Le Jour Se Leve,” “Mayerling” and “Throne of Blood” (all unrated); the Rembrandt-inspired “Nightwatching” (not rated); the French comedy “Rumba” (not rated); James Franco, Sienna Miller and Scott Glenn in “Camille” (not rated); a new DVD of the 1980 hit “Fame” (R), plus Blu-Ray editions of “Amadeus” (R), “An American Werewolf in London” (R), “Army of Darkness” (R), “Child’s Play” (R) and “Misery” (R); and TV transfers (all unrated) of “Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood,” “Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse,” “Bonanza: The Official First Season, Vols. 1 & 2,” “Crash: Season One,” “Fame: The Complete Seasons One & Two,” “One Step Beyond: The Official First Season,” “Sanctuary: The Complete First Season,” “The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Second Season,” “Private Practice: The Complete Second Season,” “The IT Crowd: The Complete Third Season,” “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia: Season Four,” “My Name Is Earl: Season Four,” “Grey’s Anatomy: The Complete Fifth Season,” “CSI Miami: The Complete Seventh Season” and “Laramie: The Final Season.”

CDS
  Muse, “The Resistance”: And just what is this guitar-mad trio resisting on their latest release?
  Subtlety. Understatement. Moderation.
  These bombastic Brits show little restraint on “The Resistance,” and this is a very good thing if you like huge, dense guitar jams, full-on arena rock ragers and all the proggy pomp a band can squeeze into a five-minute rock tune.
  We acquiesce already.      
  Also in stores: The Black Dahlia Murder, “Deflorate”; Dodos, “Time to Die”; Every Time I Die, “New Junk Aesthetic”; Ace Frehley, “Anomaly”; Infected Mushroom, “Legend of the Black Shawarma”; Kid Cudi, “Man on the Moon: The End of Day”; Kittie, “In the Black”; Mark Knopfler, “Get Lucky”; Living Colour, “The Chair in the Doorway”; Megadeth, “Endgame”; Porcupine Tree, “The Incident”; Q-Tip, “Kamaal the Abstract”; Shadows Fall, “Retribution”; The 69 Eyes, “Back in Blood”; Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats, “Meet the Meatbats”; Thrice, “Beggars”; Uncle Kracker, “Happy Hour”; Ying Yang Twins, “Ying Yang Forever”; and Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson, “Break Up.”

BOOKS
  “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown: Dan Brown again recounts the adventures of Robert Langdon in “The Lost Symbol,” the highly anticipated follow-up to “The Da Vinci Code,” which will have a first printing of 5 million copies. Expect to see this one sticking around for a while.
  Jacquelyn Mitchard also has a book expected out this week. In “No Time to Wave Goodbye,” Mitchard returns to familiar territory, rejoining characters featured in her best-selling “The Deep End of the Ocean.” Set more than two decades after Beth Cappadora’s son was kidnapped, the new novel finds Ben grown with children of his own, one of which completes a documentary about families whose children are abducted. Beth dreads reliving the past, but that’s nothing when her ultimate fear comes true, leaving the family struggling for survival.
  Also hitting shelves: “The Art of Disappearing” by Ivy Pochoda; “Bicycle Diaries” by David Byrne; “The Good Soldiers” by David Finkel; “Guinness World Records 2010” by Guinness World Records; “I Can Make You Sleep: For the Best Rest of Your Life!” by Paul McKenna; “If God Is Good: Faith in a World of Suffering and Evil” by Randy Alcorn; “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” by Michael J. Sandel; “Long Past Stopping: A Memoir” by Oran Canfield; “Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation” by Gregory Maguire; “The Night Monster” by James Swain; “Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir” by Kay Redfield Jamison; “Positively” by Courtney Sheinmel; “The Secret to Teen Power” by Paul Harrington; “Time of the Witches” by Anna Myers; “True Compass: A Memoir” by Edward M. Kennedy; “Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman” by Jon Krakauer; and “You Were Born for This: Seven Keys to a Life of Predictable Miracles” by Bruce Wilkinson.