THE LIST: DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores week of Sept. 21

DVDS
  “Robin Hood” (PG-13): Russell Crowe reunites with “Gladiator” director Ridley Scott for a straight-arrow origin tale about how crusader Robin Longstride became the not-so-very-merry title outlaw. Cate Blanchett (as a forceful Marian), William Hurt and Max Von Sydow round out the starring cast of a movie that’s a far cry from the adventurous Robin Hood tales we’ve come to know and love through a century of cinematic derring-do.
  There’s only one other theatrical release on tap today, but at least it’s a winner. An Academy Award-winner: Argentina’s “The Secret in Their Eyes” (R), Oscar’s best foreign-language film this year, which blends mystery and romance as a retired investigator (Richard Darin) revisits an unsolved rape-murder case that’s haunted him for 25 years — along with a former colleague (Soledad Villamil), now a judge, who’s also haunted him all those years.
  From there, it’s time to hit the straight-to-video express with the computer-animated adventure “Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue” (G). And it’s back to Truth University for “Stomp the Yard: Homecoming” (PG-13) as rivals prepare for a national step-off; Collins Pennie, Columbus Short and Keith David lead the cast. Other welcome-to-Las-Vegas titles due today include “Crying Game” director Neil Jordan’s Irish fairy tale “Ondine” (PG-13), with Colin Farrell as a hard-luck fisherman who catches the near-drowned title character (Alicja Bachleda) — a woman his daughter (Alison Barry) believes is a magical wish-granting creature. More magic materializes in “The Secret of Moonacre” (PG), as a young orphan (“The Golden Compass’ ” Dakota Blue Richards) discovers mythical beasts dwelling near her eccentric uncle’s isolated manor; Ioan Gruffudd, Tim Curry and Natascha McElhone co-star. A college student (Alex Frost) pursues his baseball dreams with the help of his sympathetic coach (Steve Zahn) in “Calvin Marshall” (R), while the romantic comedy “Outsourced” (PG-13) follows an American worker (Josh Hamilton) who not only loses his job but must go to India to train his replacement. Oscar-winners Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker team up in the psychological thriller “The Experiment” (R). And in the R-rated art-world satire “(Untitled)", a New York gallery employee (Marley Shelton) falls for an experimental music composer (Adam Goldberg).
  On the documentary front, the American Film Institute’s “Directors: Life Behind the Camera” (not rated) provides close-up interviews with 33 filmmakers, including such Oscar-winning legends as Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood. Peter Coyote narrates “Don’t Get Sick After June: American Indian Healthcare” (G). Leading today’s Blu-ray Disc debuts: the Oscar-winning “American Beauty” (R).
  Tuning in to TV transfers (unrated unless noted otherwise), the landmark six-part 1982 documentary “Middletown” explores aspects of life in Muncie, Ind., from local politics to high school sports. Also arriving on DVD: the Peanuts special “He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown,” plus the series “Modern Family: The Complete First Season,” “Spartacus: Blood and Sand — The Complete First Season,” “Community: The Complete First Season,” “Bored to Death: The Complete First Season” (R), “Human Target: The Complete First Season,” “Castle: The Complete Second Season” (PG-13), “The Mentalist: The Complete Second Season,” “Hell’s Kitchen: Season Three Raw & Uncensored,” “30 Rock: Season Four,” “How I Met Your Mother: Season Five,” “Desperate Housewives: The Complete Sixth Season” (PG-13), “The Hills: Season Six,” “Mythbusters: Collection Six” (PG), “Two and a Half Men: The Complete Seventh Season” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Year 11.”

CDS
  Carlos Santana, “Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time”: Just when you thought that the dead horse that Carlos Santana has been flogging for a decade now was finally headed to the glue factory, here comes yet another collaborations disc with a bevy of guest singers such as Scott Weiland and Chris Cornell.
 This go-round it’s a classic rock covers album, which may sound like a decent enough idea in theory considering Santana’s pedigree, but that will soon change once you hear the aural ipecac that is the terminally dull Chris Daughtry taking on Def Leppard’s “Photograph” or, egads, Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix somehow managing to ruin Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.”
  This “Heaven” is a lot closer to hell, dudes.  
  Also in stores: Black Country Communion (supergroup featuring Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, Derek Sherinian, Joe Bonamassa), “Black Country Communion (CD/DVD)”; Zac Brown Band, “You Get What You Give”; Paula Cole, “Ithaca”; Billy Currington, “Enjoy Yourself”; Michael Franti & Spearhead, “The Sound of Sunshine”; Selena Gomez & The Scene, “A Year Without Rain”; John Legend & The Roots, “Wake Up!”; Manic Street Preacher, “Postcards From a Young Man”; Maroon 5, “Hands All Over”; Methods of Mayhem, “A Public Disservice Announcement”; and Swans, “My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky.”

BOOKS
  “Tattoos and Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock’s Most Notorious Frontmen” by Vince Neil and Mike Sager: If you haven’t gotten enough reading about Las Vegas’ own Vince Neil in the tabloids, the Motley Crue singer reflects on his past, good and bad, in his new memoir.
  For readers looking for new fiction, John Sandford follows up “Rough Country” with “Bad Blood,” the fourth thriller in the series featuring Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
  Also hitting shelves this week: “Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future” by Robert Reich; “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (the Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race” by Jon Stewart; “Dead Beautiful” by Yvonne Woon; “Dogfight: A Love Story” by Matt Burgess; “Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle” by Ingrid Betancourt; “The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel” by Diana Gabaldon; “The Fall” by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan; “The Grace of Silence” by Michele Norris; “Heaven’s Fury” by Stephen Frey; “In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands” by Martin Gilbert; “Mini Shopaholic” by Sophie Kinsella; “Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet” by Deepak Chopra; “A Nose for Justice” by Rita Brown; “The Replacement” by Brenna Yovanoff; “Santa Fe Edge” by Stuart Woods; “To the End of the Land” by David Grossman and Jessica Cohen; and “Twelfth Grade Kills (The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Series No. 5)” by Heather Brewer.