In this installment of THE VIDEO STORE DAYS, we look back at where and why the UNRATED VERSION became big and popular during the adolescent years of DVD.

In this installment of T HE VIDEO STORE DAYS , I talk about "Director's Cuts" and my memories of how I discovered them and a bunch of different ones that have come along in my life.

There are many people out there who chastise people for having nostalgia for Blockbuster Video or Hollywood Video. Is it wrong to have nostalgia for these video stores?

For those who didn't grow up during THE VIDEO STORE DAYS, VHS has taken on a sigma of "looking bad", but for those who did grow up during that time, VHS always looked good. So, was VHS really that bad?

When it came to video stores, they came in every size possible. From huge stores like your local Blockbuster or Hollywood Video to the small stores found in your local grocery store or gas station, the video store didn't need a lot of room to stock the films you were looking for.

Rumble in the Bronx was the first film I saw starring Jackie Chan. It was this film and Snake in the Eagle's Shadow that turned me into a lifelong Jackie Chan fan.

One of my favorite films of all time, Heavy Metal, has gotten the 4K treatment from Sony, who also threw in the film's sequel, Heavy Metal 2000, which is making it's blu-ray debut.

I grew up in a VHS household. I think that 95% of people out there will say the same thing, I had a friend who had a Beta player, but finding tapes for it was really hard, so we never really had anything to watch on it. By the time I was in my teens, I wanted to branch out and start watching more things. This was becoming a problem …

Today, on this installment of THE VIDEO STORE DAYS, we remember that time when the nation believed that there was a ghost in the box office smash, THREE MEN AND A BABY and how it belongs in THE VIDEO STORE DAYS "Hall of Fame"