Episode 537: Nobody Wants To See Your Lear, Dude!

Erik Childress & Peter Sobczynski bring you this week’s physical media roundup which includes a great upgrade for the family involving a cat and a mouse. Horror fans get some 4K upgrades from four different decades. Film Noir gets several different takes including through the mind of Woody Allen. A legendary black filmmaker championed over the years by Sergio Mims gets his whole collection. There are early appearances by Sam Elliott, Sean Penn and John Cusack along with a reappraisal of a current Oscar contender. A more positive reappraisal has been happening for years with a Shane Black film now in 4K and Peter takes us down the rabbit hole of the time Jean-Luc Godard made a Shakespeare adaptation for Cannon Films.

0:00 – Intro

3:09 - Criterion (King Lear)

17:26 - Warner Archive (Tom and Jerry: The Complete CinemaScope Collection)

21:31 – Warner Bros. (The Nice Guys 4K)

30:18 - Kino (Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection, Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXIII (Rope of Sand / Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye / Never Love a Stranger), Play It Again Sam, Hot Pursuit)

57:11 - Fun City (Lifeguard, Racing with the Moon)

1:08:50 - Universal (Conclave 4K)

1:13:42 - Arrow (Alice Sweet Alice 4K)

1:22:52 - Shout Factory (Galaxy of Terror 4K, Ghosts of Mars 4K, The Last Voyage of the Demeter 4K)

1:35:21 – New Blu-ray Announcements