One thing we don't think about, while watching the various format wars take place before our very eyes, is what happened to the brick and mortar video store. Considering that now, the chains are pretty much down to Blockbuster and deep dark-horse Family Video, it's the mom and pop stores that are having the ...

It was probably inevitable, but apparently, Movie Gallery is considering its second Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in just over two years.  This means, at this rate, Movie Gallery bankruptcy filings will become annual starting in 2011. Okay, so I'm being a bit glib.  What that REALLY means is that if you're a big Movie Gallery fan, ...

It's almost the end of the decade, folks, and as such, this is the time when journalists everywhere, be they online or in print, get to turn pundit for a while and make future predictions. In fact, it's downright expected. But one prediction that I got, that fits in pretty nicely with some of my own, ...

Now this is a chunk of news that should make Gamefly and every video store--brick and mortar video store, I mean--collapse into a screaming fit.  Seriously, this is "run out into the street, freak out, and kick puppies" news. Redbox wants to make a push into renting games, or so the word goes.  That's right--the company ...

If you've been to a video store lately, you know that they seldom just offer video rentals any more.  Especially the local boys, the mom and pop stores.  They might well offer tanning facilities, lottery ticket sales, fax machine services--I've even seen some with adjacent restaurants and dry cleaning! And according to analysts, ever since the ...