No need to send it back: Netflix posts its final DVDs to customers
Mail-based service has had a 25-year run in the US but the streaming business eclipsed it long ago
March 2023
Is Blockbuster video about to make a comeback?
The mysterious reactivation of the long-moribund brand’s site, accompanied by a cryptic message, has fans asking if a mighty return is on the cards
December 2022
Fake Blockbuster in Los Angeles rewinds to a pre-Netflix era
A pop-up speakeasy evokes a particular nostalgia – perhaps because the chain was one of the first victims of ‘disruption’
June 2022
Brief letters
Is the Conservative party the Woolworths of politics?
Brief letters: The NHS and Blockbuster | Bus stop benches | Heather Wheeler’s insults | New York’s crystal energy | Venison food strategy | Boris Johnson’s brass neck
September 2019
Netflix co-founder: 'Blockbuster laughed at us … Now there's one left'
Marc Randolph launched the streaming service that would revolutionize TV and film, upend Hollywood and draw more than 150 million subscribers
August 2019
What my summer job taught me
I folded cardboard at Blockbuster, and found inner peace amid the boredom
Paul Fleckney
A tedious job gave me time to process life-changing events, both happy and sad, says writer Paul Fleckney
May 2019
Experience
Experience: I manage the last Blockbuster in the world
It was just us and a store in Perth, Australia. They called the night they closed to wish us all the best
March 2019
Death of the high street: how it feels to lose your job when a big chain closes
Woolworths closed a decade ago, and since then shop after shop has shut its doors. What is it like to be there in a store’s dying days? Eleven workers tell all
July 2018
Pass notes
How the world’s last Blockbuster is keeping the DVD dream alive
The film rental chain once had 8,000 stores in the US, but as of this week only one – in Bend, Oregon – remains. Its owner says people will still keep coming
April 2015
Changing business
To avoid Blockbuster's fate, your business needs a chief futures officer
Tom Goodwin
Today’s businesses have too few job roles focused on the future – without them, they are destined to fail
March 2015
Joss Whedon laments 'nightmare' Avengers sequel as latest trailer lands
Writer/director claims superhero-juggling blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron is ‘as tough as anything I’ve ever done’
October 2014
How the rise of tattoo parlours shows changing face of Britain’s high streets
Convenience stores and gyms have also surged as travel agents and video shops vanish from increasingly social shopping areas
December 2013
Blockbuster to disappear from high street after 25 years
Final stores to close by Monday with loss of 808 jobs after administrators fail to find buyer for DVD and games rental chain
Kipper Williams
Blockbuster to disappear from high street
Administrators at Moorfields to close stores after failing to find buyer for DVD and games rental chain
Blockbuster set to disappear from high street with loss of 1,200 jobs
Administrators at Moorfields to close stores after failing to find buyer for DVD and games rental chain
November 2013
Blockbuster to close as no buyer steps forward
Administrators start phased closure of entire DVD rental chain's entire estate
Blockbuster to close a quarter of its stores with loss of more than 450 jobs
DVD and game rental chain, which went into administration on Monday, announces closure of 72 of its remaining outlets in UK
Blockbuster to shut a quarter of UK stores
Blockbuster's final film rental is... This Is the End
Blockbuster and Barratts enter administration, threatening 3,000 jobs
