Recently, my local Hollywood Video location closed its doors for good. I pulled up on a Tuesday, the day new releases came out, only to find a dark, empty store with a sad little note on the door “Gone out of Business”. Consider it a sign of the times, with Comcast On Demand, Netflix, Redbox and a host of other ways to download movies on the internet, movie rental shops are slowly and sadly going the way of the travel agency: unnecessary in today’s user-friendly digital era.

I had been a member of this particular location for nearly a decade, … Read More »