Video Vortex — Restaurant in Raleigh

Life changing business, tens of thousands of DVD, Blu Ray & VHS selections for FREE rental. It's all done as an excuse for you to stay and drink micro brews, play free trivia, play free board games, eat their food & of course stay and watch a movie in their theater. The good will expressed here of offering a free retro rental experience is a brilliant and appreciated gimmick that transforms the space into a special community space, an enriching experience that quickly makes Raleigh a better place & your life more fulfilled. If I had one ask it would be they would keep adding DVDs to some degree, as most of their titles stop around 2018... but I understand that the format of physical media is becoming obsolete (which is the very reason they can offer these free) & spending money on new ones may not make sense. It's a small caveat to my absolute love of this idea, though. It's deserving of so...

Incredible gem boasting what I can only imagine are thousands of videos that you can rent for FREE! (Two out at a time, you provide credit card info in case of late charges and/or damage). It’s a nostalgic and fun experience selecting movies and they are organized extremely well by multiple categories. If you want to check if a movie is available, there are 2 iPads mounted in the area to easily search (the staff is also extremely helpful and friendly). They even have convenient drop off bins for after hours or if the main desk is too hectic. Such a cool way to relive the days of video rental stores, and I love that they have rescued all of these discs/tapes from now-defunct rental stores instead of sending them...

We didn't go to see a movie because we wanted to browse and buy films. Extremely limited selection. They only had criterion collection blu rays and very few of them. They had a lot of video rentals, but browsing means flipping through thousands of plastic cards with images that are stacked in drawers. It is not convenient at all to browse. Put the movies on shelves like in the 80's. Who has that kind of patience to flip cards? There is a nice collection of video tapes though. They basically use cinema and movies as a motif for their restaurant. We are avid movie buffs, but this was a very...