When Renting a Movie Was an Event

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Previously on isoul.uk: It Only Took Me Twenty-Odd Years to Listen to Harry Potter — a Year 6 recommendation I ignored finally found me through audiobooks more than twenty years later.

There was a time when watching a particular film began with somebody leaving the house.

My brothers would go to Blockbuster or one of the local video shops and return carrying whatever the household would be watching. I was younger and not always part of the choice, but that only made their return more interesting. A film did not simply appear in a menu. It arrived through the front door.

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When Renting a Movie Was an Event