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| - I went absolutely GONZO over this place when I happened upon it during a mini-vaca in TO. Living less than two hours away in Buffalo, I get to the area fairly regularly but I had yet to stumble on this place; it quickly went to my "top ten reasons if I get filthy rich I will move to Toronto and get duel citizenship." I absolutely NEED to live in walking distance from this place so I can relive the glory days of my 20's, wondering into the local video rental place with friends and spending more time oohing over selections than it will actually take to watch mine once I get home with it.
Their selection is just amazing! I have extremely diverse taste in movies and litterally every color of my personal film rainbow was represented and more - anime, foreign films of every ilk, crappy 80's action films (hello, Dolph Lundgren), serious indie stuff, black comedy, obscure art house, horror and sci fi (from the B-movie to the big budget). The typical drama, rom/com & blockbustery stuff was represented too, and I won't lie and say I don't sample my fair share of such offerings from Netflix at present (lacking well, almost any video store in Buffalo, and none near me).
I was in awe. No, literally I kept saying "awwwww" 'cause I was bummed I couldn't rent anything.
I thought the layout and organization were excellent. It's such a tiny space, but you didn't feel cramped and everything was very easy to read. Nice employees and a wide variety of customers - no douchey hispter vibe that one may expect from such a place. This reminded me of everything awesome about the now defunct Mondo video in Buffalo except with 10x more selection, plus all the more mainstream stuff to please a wider crowd (and those like me who like a little bit of everything).
I heard this may be forced to move after the sale of a big piece of Mirvish Village! No!!!!!!!!!
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/07/17/honest_eds_sale_to_include_mirvish_village.html
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