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It Takes a Thief: The Complete Series

Penthouse Magazine — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:45:19 +0000

It Takes a Thief: The Complete Series
In this series from the late sixties, cat burglar Alexander Mundy escaped jail time by agreeing to use his shady skills as a professional thief for the U.S. government. Forty years later, every episode has been digitally remastered for this set, which also includes an extended version of the pilot, a fresh interview with star Robert Wagner, a collectible photo book, and a coaster set (why not?).

Smallville: The Complete Series

Penthouse Magazine — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:55:19 +0000

Smallville: The Complete Series
It takes a certain type of show to attract both swooning teenyboppers and rabid fanboys—which explains why this Teen of Steel show became the longest running sci-fi series in North America. This comprehensive set is a hefty beast, thanks to ten years’ worth of episodes and 28 hours of bonus content. Some of the coolest extras include a never-before-seen Superboy pilot from 1961, footage of the 2010 Comic-Con panel, the Aquaman pilot, a Daily Planet edition highlighting key story lines, and an episode guide with storyboards and sketches.

Friday Night Lights: The Complete Series

Penthouse Magazine — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:10:56 +0000

This collection would have been much smaller if NBC execs had their way—be tween low ratings and the writer’s strike, FNL wasn’t expected to survive its second season. It was saved by a fervent fan base and a move to DirecTV’s 101 Network, and capped off its final season with two Emmys (for star Kyle Chandler and for writing). Relive all five seasons, plus the bonus features from each previous release—deleted scenes, loads of commen tary tracks, behind the-scenes footage—a play book, and a weepy “Lights Go Out” featurette.

Colombiana

Penthouse Magazine — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:25:51 +0000

Colombiana
This underappreciated action flick stars the delicious Zoë Saldana as Cataleya, a sexy assassin seeking revenge on the mobster who murdered her parents. And of course the only thing better than watching a catsuitclad Saldana pick off bad guys is watching her do it in high-definition clarity. The bonus featurettes on the Blu-ray disc include “Cataleya’s Journey,” “Assassins,” “Training a Killer,” and “Take the Ride.”

Star Trek: The Next Generation—The Next Level

Penthouse Magazine — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:55:19 +0000

Star Trek: The Next Generation—The Next Level
Trekkies have been buzzing about a high-def reworking of ST:NG for nearly two years now—and they’ll have to wait a little longer to see the whole series in HD, since CBS is going through 25,000 reels of uncut negatives to piece together the episodes in high-definition. All 178 episodes will eventually be transferred to 1080p (likely in 2012), but for now, the Bluray single-disc will show off the stunning visual effects on three episodes—the feature-length pilot and two fan favorites.

The Hangover Part II

Penthouse Magazine — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:25:09 +0000

The Hangover Part II
Prerelease we pegged this sequel as one of the year’s most anticipated movies, and the half-billion-dollar opening weekend proved our point. This time around, Stu (Ed Helms) is the one walking down the aisle—and his modest bachelor brunch somehow gives way to a Bangkok shit-show involving a stolen monkey, a kathoey prostitute, and a very familiar face tattoo. Among the bonus features are a gag reel, a monkey featurette, and a tour of Bangkok with Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong). Stock up and give a copy to everyone in your wolf pack.

Boardwalk Empire: The Complete First Season

Penthouse Magazine — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:15:57 +0000

Boardwalk Empire: The Complete First Season
HBO’s drama about corrupt politicians in Prohibition-era Atlantic City was epic from day one. The $18 million pilot was one of the most expensive in history, and Martin Scorsese—who hadn’t directed a TV show in 25 years—was at the helm. Eighteen Emmy nominations later, the first season is on DVD, and the bonus features reveal how such a huge production came to the small screen. Standouts include a tour of famous speakeasies and a look at how to build a 300-foot boardwalk in a Brooklyn parking lot.

Blue Velvet

Penthouse Magazine — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:45:14 +0000

Cue midlife crisis: It’s been 25 years since this surreal David Lynch mystery was released. Kyle MacLachlan starred as a college kid who finds a severed ear, decides to inves tigate, and gets sucked into an affair with a lounge singer who’s being tortured by a sexually depraved villain (a scenery-chomping Dennis Hopper, who’s never been more fun to watch, except in Speed)—you know, just your average feel-good Lynch film. The anniversary-edition Blu-ray comes with Master Audio 5.1, 50 minutes of deleted scenes, and a few outtakes.

Cowboys & Aliens

Penthouse Magazine — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:35:13 +0000

It’s a Western, it’s science fiction, it has Olivia Wilde—it’s like three gifts rolled into one! Special features include commentary from director Jon Favreau and an in-depth look at the fictional town of Absolution (and that deleted scene from the trailer of Daniel Craig roping a spaceship—please! Embrace the cheesiness). But we’re expecting the making-of footage to be epic, considering the film’s long journey to the screen. Universal and DreamWorks purchased the rights to the plot (aliens invade the Wild West; sworn enemies team up to ensure the survival of the species) back in 1997, nine years before the graphic novel was published.

Mr. Magoo: The Television Collection (1960–1977)

Penthouse Magazine — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:45:05 +0000

Mr. Magoo: The Television Collection (1960–1977)
It’s the gift you didn’t even know you needed—a box set of Mr. Magoo’s zany, dumb luck escapades that spans 17 years, three shows, and a made-for-TV movie. Magoo fans will be psyched to find all 26 episodes of The Mister Magoo Show, the TV movie Uncle Sam Magoo, 26 episodes of The Famous Adventures of Mister Magoo, and 16 episodes of What’s New Mister Magoo? (Girlfriends of Magoo fans, on the other hand, will be less enthused.)

The Superman Motion Picture Anthology (1978–2006)

Penthouse Magazine — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:25:47 +0000

The Superman Motion Picture Anthology (1978–2006)
Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and a great way to spend an entire day glued to your couch…. This definitive eight-disc set includes every Man of Steel movie in the franchise. Christopher Reeve wears the cape in Superman: The Movie (1978), Superman II (1980), Superman III (1983), and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987); and Brandon Routh stars in the most recent installment, Superman Returns (2006). An extended version and a Richard Donner cut of the original are also in there, along with a separate bonus disc packed with deleted scenes, screen tests, trailers, cartoons, and more.

Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore

Penthouse Magazine — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:40:04 +0000

Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore

Frank Henenlotter (Frankenhooker) directs a documentary on the cult exploitation director who basically created splatter cinema in 1963 with his low-budget, drive-in Grand Guignol Blood Feast, the first film to graphically showcase dismemberment, entrails, and torture, using gallons of fake blood and animal parts. The doc traces Lewis’s start in early-sixties “nudie-cuties”—striptease and nudist-colony films—and takes viewers through his infamous gore shockers, featuring interviews with such bad-taste luminaries as John Waters and former Penthouse columnist Joe Bob Briggs. Lewis’s most famous features—Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs!, and Color Me Blood Red—are also coming out in a fancy new high-def Blu-ray special edition called The Blood Trilogy. Both releases contain a grisly amount of bonus features, including commentaries, outtakes, and trailers.—Christine Colby