Spend the long weekend indoors and crank up the DVD player.

Among the most recent releases are the latest seasons of two HBO long-running favorites Entourage and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Entourage: The Complete Sixth Season (season seven has also just begin on HBO) continues the mostly comic adventures of this award-winning show about an actor and his pack of friends in Hollywood.

Loosely based on Mark Wahlberg’s early Hollywood days, season six has Vince (the Hollywood star, and played by Adrian Grenier) on the rebound. His career was at low ebb at the end of season five but now he has a hit film directed by Martin Scorsese.

The other guys are doing pretty well too...well for the most part.

Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) celebrates his 30th birthday early in season six and gets very expensive cars as presents from Vince and girlfriend Jamie-Lynn Sigler (played by The Soprano’s Jamie-Lynn Sigler). Eric (“E” to his friends and played by Kevin Connolly) finally moves out on his own and has (what else?) girlfriend trouble. Drama (Kevin Dillon) is struggling with his own career while agent Ari (Jeremy Piven) has major problems at the office.

Entourage is a great show for star-gazing, seemingly you never know who just might stop by for a cameo, and season six includes Matt Damon, LeBron James, Tom Brady, Ed Burns, Jami Gertz and David Schwimmer.

Bonus features include audio commentaries by the cast and executive producers as well as a behind the scenes feature A Day at the Speedway, with everybody racing Ferraris at the Auto Club Speedway.

Season six is also available on Blu-ray.

Curb Your Enthusiasm — The Complete Seventh Season, is also new from HBO Home Entetainment.

This is the the season that includes The Seinfeld Re-union episode (Series star Larry David co-created co-produced Seinfeld).

This is probably as close as you will ever get to the glory days of Seinfeld. The reunion show features the entire Seinfeld gang as well as nine other episodes.

Bonus features include how the Seinfeld reunion came out, with interviews from both Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld stars; Rebuilding the Seinfeld Sets, how the classic sets were brought back to life and modernizing them for 2009; and Larry David as George Costanza, Jason Alexander coaches David on how to play George, a character that was originally based on Larry David.

Plus, there is A Seinfeld Moment, an interview with Davd and the Seinfeld cast on what it was like to reunite again after 11 years.

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Benicio Del Toro’s The Wolfman was a bit of a disappointment when it was released in theaters in February.

Del Toro certainly looked the part of the hairy horror guy, but some things just didn’t play out very well, including a silly climax between two wolfmen that looked looked more like a tribute to Godzilla movies than the classic Universal monster.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has made the new Blu-ray version of the film more enticing with the opportunity to stream the original 1941 The Wolfman with Lon Chaney, Jr. with the purchase of the DVD.

In addition, the Blu-ray also features two alternate endings, and for a limited time, a digital copy of the film suitable for itunes and various portable devices.

The Wolfman, which has some great atmospheric shots that plays well in the Blu-ray format, also stars Anthony Hopkins.

Bonus features include Return of the Wolfman, a feature that takes a close look (with Hopkins and Del Toro) on this retelling of a classic; a visual effects feature on how it The Wolfman’s world was created; The Beastmaker, how the beast was created by make-up wizard Rick Baker and more.

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They keep adding new titles to the Warner Archive Collection. Launched in March of last year, the Warner Archive has released more than 550 previously unavailable films, short subjects, TV movies and mini-series.

Some of the new reviewed titles for June include Verboten!, a 1958 drama from director/writer Samuel Fuller that, as is usually the case with Fuller films, was ahead of its time.

It’s occupied Germany right after World War II and the Nazi insurgents are still trying to take over. At the center of the story is an American soldier who has fallen in love with a German woman, which is strictly verboten (forbidden). The technique is of definite interest here — hand to hand combat with Beethoven and Wagner on the soundtrack must have influenced everyone from Francis Ford Coppola to Quentin Tarentino. There is also lots of actual documentary footage thrown in, used to good effect.

If you want to experience Two on a Guillotine (1964) to its best effect, turn out the lights and watch it at night. Connie Stevens, Dean Jones and Cesar Romero star in this film about a magician (Romero) who promises he will come back after his death. Daughter Connie Stevens inherits his house which seems to have come equipped with its own ghosts.

Not very scary by today’s standards, but there are moments worth watching (Connie Steven’s singing with a harp and a “wild” dance scene at a bar among them).

And Five Star Final, a best picture Academy Award nominee from 1931 starring Edward G. Robinson. Edward G. Robinson stars as a newspaper editor who had to go against his principles to increase that circulation. Boris Karloff is also on hand, just before Frankenstein, as a shady reporter.

Warner Archive films are made to order and available only online at www.Warner

archive.com.

Life, the Discovery Channel television series, looks simply great on a HD TV.

But you may need to tone down the volume to enjoy it.

The 11-part series travels the globe and features some truly inspiring cinematography of the various species here on Earth.

And then Oprah Winfrey opens her mouth.

Winfrey is good as a talk show host, but her narration here has a dumb-down effect that would appeal maybe to the nursery school set, but not so much an adult audience.

Curiously, the original series made for the BBC, features David Attenborough (the DVD set is also available) and while I haven’t heard his version, you just have to think it would be infinitely better than this.

I guess you can get used to her..maybe...but I found myself putting the volume way down low and just enjoying the cinematography instead.

The four-disc set is available at retailers or online at Discoverystore.com.

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In the early 1970s, Candy Stripe Nurses and The Student Nurses were very much adult films.

They would often wind up on a double-bill at the local drive-in and if you were an 18-year-old boy (and yes, maybe even his dad), an evening with the nurses was a really good time.

Infinity Entertainment has released Presenting Roger’s Best of the B*s, Collection 2: Naughty Nurses and Tawdry Teachers.

There are a lot more nurses than teachers in this seven film collection, but after watching The Student Nurses (1970), Private Duty Nurses (1971), Night Call Nurses (1972), The Young Nurses (1973), Candy Stripe Nurses (1974) and Summer School Teachers (1975) it is kind of hard to tell the difference between the nurses and the teachers.

The plots are pretty much the same: mixed in amongst the nurses taking showers, or walking on the beach without clothes, there was some drama going on either involving patients or students.

The films themselves are probably very much like they were when first presented in the 1970s – sometimes dark, sometimes faded or soft focus.

The erotic pleasures of these nurses and teachers is probably lost now to the 1970s, especially with the internet, but for the collector all those short skirts and bedpans are at the very least worth some laughs.

The set also includes some classic Corman film trailers.

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I have been a Kinks fan for almost as long as I can remember. The oh-so British Kinks have always stuck to their roots, so I was really excited when MVD Visual announced the release of You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks.

But even fans may be disappointed by this disjointed effort which features a lot of Kinks songs, but some disjointed narrative and ultimately doesn’t deliver enough music or history by the band.

The sound quality is not the best either.

There are samples of some of their better songs — Waterloo Sunset, Celluloid Heroes and, of course, You Really Got Me, but mostly they are just samples.

You don’t learn much about Ray Davies, brother Dave and Mick Avory, so one viewing of You Really Got Me: The Story of the Kings is more than enough.

Listen to one of their CDs instead.

The DVD is available online at www.amazon.com  and other retailers.