Kim's Video

I'm not from New York. Each city had one of these cult-service video stores. My city had Eddie Brandt's Saturday Matinee, which closed permanently during Covid with rumors that Quentin Tarantino actually bought out the archive, presumably to avoid what happened with Kim's. Before the internet these stores were essential for students of film and those in seek of entertainment outside the restrictive limits of Blockbuster. With fond memories of the days of video rentals, I got emotionally invested in the fate of Kim's videos and watched until the very end to see what happened to the artifacts so beloved by so many people. Folks too young to have known anything other than the endless resources of streaming and the internet might not understand...