THE LIST: DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores week of Sept. 23

DVDS
  “Sex and the City” (R): After a four-year hiatus, the HBO comedy’s fab four — Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) — return for what feels like an entire season of shoe love, true love and everything in between, from Carrie’s at-long-last nuptials with the elusive Mr. Big (Chris Noth) to Miranda’s estrangement from husband Steve.
  George Clooney, meanwhile, hits the gridiron as star and director of “Leatherheads” (PG-13), a comedy about pro football’s Roaring ’20s stone age, with Clooney as a brash player who tries to save his ragtime team by recruiting a college star (“The Office’s” John Krasinski), they both make a play for ace reporter Renée Zellweger.
  Elsewhere on the recent-release front, the satirical “The Foot Fist Way” (R) spotlights “Tropic Thunder” and “Pineapple Express” scene-stealer Danny McBride as a clueless, egomaniacal martial arts master. “Shaun of the Dead’s” Simon Pegg plays a chronic screw-up who takes up long-distance running to show up the smarmy suitor (Hank Azaria) of his ex-fiancee (Thandie Newton) in “Run, Fatboy, Run” (PG-13). And a suave Manhattan man-about-town (Hugh Jackman) lures a timid accountant (Ewan McGregor) into an elite sex club (populated by the likes of Michelle Williams and Natasha Richardson) in “Deception” (R).
  Turning to movies that never played local theaters, Matthew Modine headlines the romantic comedy “The Neighbor,” while Michelle Yeoh and Sean Bean star in the the Arctic epic “Far North” (R). A man contemplating suicide (Tom Sizemore) hires a film student to document his last day in “A Broken Life” (not rated); Ving Rhames co-stars. Milo Ventimiglia and Alyssa Milano, meanwhile, headline the thriller “Pathology” (R). And acclaimed director Ferzan Ozpetek (“Steam: The Turkish Bath”) delivers an Italian “Big Chill” in “Saturn in Opposition” (not rated).
  Leading today’s documentary lineup: “Family Name” (not rated), a Sundance award-winner that follows filmmaker Macky Alston’s quest to trace the history of his surname — and his ancestors.
  Tuning in to TV transfers, Sam Waterston plays the father of the atomic bomb in the award-winning 1980 miniseries “Oppenheimer” (not rated).
  “Samantha Who?: The Complete First Season” leads the series lineup (all unrated), which also include “Cashmere Mafia: The Complete Series,” “This American Life: Season 1,” “Brothers and Sisters: The Complete Second Season,” “Boston Legal: Season Four,”  “CSI: NY — The Fourth Season” and “Two and a Half Men: The Complete Fourth Season.”
  A pair of cinematic classics, meanwhile, return in special-edition form: “The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration Giftset” (R), “L.A. Confidential: Two-Disc Special Edition” (R). Also joining the vintage-title cast: Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn in the sparkling R-rated 1971caper “$ (Dollars)”; reunited “Gilda” stars Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford in 1952’s “Affair in Trinidad” (not rated); Sean Connery as a ex-con thief under surveillance in director Sidney Lumet’s 1971 thriller “The Anderson Tapes” (PG); and George C. Scott and Stacey Keach as L.A. cops in the 1972 adaptation of Joseph Wambaugh’s “The New Centurions” (R).

CDS
  Jenny Lewis, “Acid Tongue”: She’s a honey-voices singer, though the words that spill out of her are practically coated in broken glass.
  Jenny Lewis is best known as the frontlady of rootsy pop wunderkind Rilo Kiley, but she’s been known to step out on her own as well, and now she’s readied her second solo album, “Acid Tongue,” whose title couldn’t be more apropos.
 Enlisting a wide range of collaborators, from Elvis Costello to Zooey Deschanel, Chris Robinson to M. Ward, it’s an eclectic affair whose cohesion comes from Lewis’ stinging worldview, where love’s labors results in callused hearts and precious little is as sweet as it sounds coming from this no-nonsense chanteuse. 
  Also in stores: Jackson Browne, “Time the Conqueror”; Cold War Kids, “Loyalty to Loyalty”; Everlast, “Love, War and The Ghost of Whitey Ford”; Kings of Leon, “Only By the Night”; Plain White T’s, “Big Bad World”; Pussycat Dolls, “Doll Domination”; Thievery Corporation, “Radio Retaliation”; and TV on the Radio, “Dear Science.”

BOOKS
  “Heat Lightning” by John Sandford: Author John Sandford returns with his second thriller featuring investigator Virgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. In “Heat Lightning,” a body is found with two shots to the head and a lemon stuffed in the mouth near a veteran’s memorial, another body was found the same way the previous week. Flowers is put on the case and tries to find the link between the victims.
  Also hitting shelves this week: “The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel” by Alexander McCall Smith; “The Given Day” by Dennis Lehane; “Hot Mahogany” by Stuart Woods; “Izzy and Lenore: Two Dogs, an Unexpected Journey, and Me” by Jon Katz; “Letter to My Daughter” by Maya Angelou; “Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds” by Jenny McCarthy; “Promise to Ourselves: A Journey through Divorce and Fatherhood” by Alec Baldwin; “Untamed (House of Night Series No. 4)” by P.C. Cast; and “A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity: A Memoir” by Bill O’Reilly.