Blu-ray Review – Everything to Entertain You

The video store. For some, it's a source of tremendous nostalgia, recalling a time when communities gathered to rent movies, often hunting for titles in a sea of options. There was candy, video games, and walls covered in posters and advertisements. There was physical contact with product, increasing excitement as film-watching risks were taken. For others, the video store is the place your parents occasionally talk about while failing to find anything on a streaming channel. "Everything to Entertain You" is a short documentary about Video Headquarters, perhaps the most popular video store in New Hampshire, which kept its doors opened for 32 years, enduring all kinds of financial and business attacks until it finally closed in 2015. Director Brantley C. Palmer was part of the Video Headquarters experience and he was there when it all came to a close, picking up a camera to document such an event. "Everything to Entertain You" provides a history of Video Headquarters and its employees, but it's also a mild offering of remembrance, gifting viewers a time machine to an era when the world of home video was something thrilling. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com