STACK #129 Jul 2016

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A ll good things must come to an end, and Glee is no exception to that. Grieving Gleeks can now get their hands on the DVD of the sixth and final season, where they'll discover insightful featurettes including Glee: The Final Curtain - An Inside Look at the Glee Series Finale , “Looking Back” Video Yearbook, and a Glee Music jukebox. And for diehard Gleekstars, there’s a limited edition box set featuring all six seasons – get ready to binge-watch all over again, and don’t stop believin’. In the final season of the high school musical, club favourites Rachel (Lea Michele) and Kurt (Chris Colfer) return to McKinley High and set out to revitalise the New Directions. Moreover, Principal Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) has taken it upon herself to quash the arts – especially the Glee club – and it’s up to Kurt and Rachel to reinvigorate the students’ jazz and claim the national title. • Get your Instagram Gleek on to win an OFFICIAL McKinley High Football Jersey – see page 18 Glee: The Final Season and Glee: The Complete Series are out now on DVD from JB Hi-Fi GLEE'S FINAL CURTAIN PACKED WITH EXTRAS

A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW

Checking out the billboards for Magic Mike XXL , it’s easy to jump to conclusions given the close-up on the bulging underpants and suggestive “Coming Soon” tease.

R eprising their roles as male strippers in this sequel, Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello adopt their most innocent expressions when STACK asks them to explain the XXL suffix. “The X is for all the Xtra stuff that you loved in the first one and then the L is for laughter. Lots more laughter,” grins Manganiello. The fact is that before Tatum became a major Hollywood player, he actually did pay his rent as a male stripper, leading him to pitch a version of his own story for the first Magic Mike . Directed by Steven Soderbergh, the movie became a surprise hit. Equally surprising was how much the guys actually enjoyed playing their stripper roles, reuniting in XXL with original cast-mates Matt Bomer, Kevin Nash and Adam Rodriguez. Nobody wants to see a flabby

stripper, yet filming on locations in Georgia and South Carolina – known for their high calorific culinary delights – was a form of torture. “Working out is fun, especially when you can do it with buddies, but it's the dieting that sucks. No cake. But it's really good motivation knowing you’re about to get butt naked in front of thousands of people and then more than that, because it's going to be on screens all over the world,” says

I ask myself: Why did I want to do this movie again?" notes Tatum. "It doesn’t matter how cool you are on stage – as soon as you get into a thong, it knocks the cool right out of you. I’d hoped we wouldn’t do thongs this time round because most of the actual male revues use boxer briefs or tightie whities.” As proud as he is of his manhood, Manganiello is no fan of the thong either. “I was actually quite angry when I found out, post- Magic Mike , that apparently

Tatum, who looked to Manganiello to be the cheerleader in the gym. “Joe enjoys working out more than anyone else on this planet.” If one thing really chafed on XXL , it was the thongs. “Right before I have to get in a thong,

no-one has worn a thong since the 80s.” Gill Pringle

Magic Mike XXL is in cinemas on July 9 and reviewed on page 26

B ill Murray comedy classic Groundhog Day is among the latest additions to JB Hi-Fi’s exclusive collection of Blu-ray catalogue reissues. Due out on July 16, the celebrated comedy from the late Harold Ramis stars Murray as an obnoxious weatherman who gets DEJA VU IN BLU!

trapped in nightmarish time loop while on assignment in a sleepy small town: every morning he wakes up, it’s Groundhog Day! The 1993 hit – which co-stars Andie MacDowell – remains one of Murray’s best movies and is a must-have addition to your High- Def collection. Murray also provides a memorable supporting turn in another JB Blu-ray exclusive out on July 16: the 1982 comedy Tootsie , in which Dustin

Hoffman plays a struggling actor who frocks up to land a female role on a soap opera. Murray stars as his playwright roommate, while Jessica Lange received the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing his soap co-star and love interest. JB Hi-Fi’s July collection of Blu-ray exclusives is completed by another essential classic – Rob Reiner’s touching coming-of-age drama Stand By

The young cast is headed by River Phoenix, Will Wheaton, Corey Feldman, and an almost unrecognisable (and chubby) Jerry O’Connell, with Richard Dreyfuss as an older version of Wheaton’s character and Kiefer Sutherland as a nasty teenaged gang leader. The huge success of Stand By Me also resulted in the late Ben E. King’s signature song climbing to the top of the charts again. Grab all three, only from JB.

Me (1986). Based on a Stephen King novella, the film follows four young boys who set out to find the body of a kid hit by a train.

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