Episode 421: Bye Bye Best Buy

Retail chain Best Buy announced they will abandon all physical media in their stores and online starting in 2024. In other words, shop anywhere else especially for the titles we discuss every week here on the show with Peter Sobczynski. This week you can be “one of us” with the latest from Criterion, swashbuck with Douglas Fairbanks or get held hostage by Humphrey Bogart on Blu-ray. There is more new 4K horror from Stan Winston, Robin Hardy, Barbra Streisand and one of the more underappreciated remakes of the 1980s. There is also an extensive documentary for a classic from that decade and one of the films we asked for on our Why Is This Not On Blu-Ray shows finally gets an upgrade from Kino. All that and more that you cannot get at Best Buy in the future. 0:00 - Intro 3:31 - Criterion (Freaks/The Unknown/The Mystic: Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers, EO, The Innocent, No Bears) 20:52 - Arrow (The Desperate Hours) 25:31 - Cohen Media (The Three Musketeers / The Iron Mask) 30:20 - Cinedigm (RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop          ) 38:22 - Kino (The Best of Times, The Blob (1988) (4K) 51:49 - Shout! Factory (Pumpkinhead (4K)) 54:23 - Lions Gate (The Wicker Man (1973) (4K Steelbook)) 1:02:56 - Sony (The Way We Were (50th Anniversary) (4K)) 1:08:32 – New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray 1:16:37 – New TV on Blu-ray 1:17:13 – New Blu-ray Announcements 1:20:35 - Outro This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit erikthemovieman.substack.com