Collections are the thing in this week’s look at physical media with Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski. Criterion has nearly the entire oeuvre of Wes Anderson. Vinegar Syndrome has a pair of Larry Fessenden works while Universal has packaged up a bunch of Draculas in 4K. Kino has a bunch of Dan Curtis and the Airport films while Warner Bros. has Freddy Krueger in a new 4K set. There is also the shorts of Creepshow, the beginning of American Pie and Yorgo Lanthimos plus one of the great action films of the new millennium that you may have missed.

3:40 - Criterion (Isle of Dogs (4K), The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (4K) , The Wes Anderson Archive In 4K (Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years))

15:02 - Warner Archive (Black Samson)

20:29 - Arrow (The Good, the Bad, the Weird (4K), Creepshow 2 (4K))

34:08 - Universal (American Pie (4K), Dracula: Complete Legacy Collection (4K))

53:36 - WB (A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection (4K))

1:10:01 - Shout Factory (Mama (4K))

Kino (Dogtooth (4K), Dan Curtis’ Late-Night Mysteries, Airport (4K), Airport 1975 (4K), Airport ‘77 (4K), Airport ‘79: The Concorde (4K))

Vinegar Syndrome (Of Monsters and Madness: The Films of Larry Fessenden Vol. 2)

TV (Touche Turtle and Dum Dum (The Complete Series))

NEW (The Life of Chuck (4K), Becoming Led Zeppelin (4K), Just the Two of Us)

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