Reel Film Chronicles

The Second Era of movie collecting for me would be marked by the wrap up of The Great DVD Purge, which began in 2005 and ended a short year later {...}

Now that a bit of the history of my collecting has been recounted, I want to share with you the collection itself. I’ll start with the DVDs – the last {...}

Many of you may remember the high definition format war that occured between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. It was a confusing time that I would equate to Betamax and VHS (although {...}

In 2005, everything changed. I finished school: four years of university and an additional year of college. I quickly moved back to my home town and was living in my {...}

After the family got the DVD player in 1997, DVDs were purchased on a fairly regular basis. I was always on the lookout, as it wasn’t easy. As you could {...}

I walked out of HMV carrying two VHS movies: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, and Reservoir Dogs. I didn’t fully realize at the time that these would be the last {...}