The video store. It was once a place that launched cinematic journeys and shaped social connections. Now, most of the business is dead, long killed off by Hollywood’s need to chase profit by destroying profit, and video stores have become the focus for many documentaries, especially independent ones scraping together an appreciation of days gone by. Director Alex Ross Perry has a lot of indie cred, previously helming “Her Smell,” “Queen of Earth,” and the recent rock doc “Pavements,” and he goes where many moviemakers have gone before in “Videoheaven,” striving to assemble an understanding of the VHS generation and the business of the rental days. Perry looks to avoid glops of nostalgia, transforming the feature into a lengthy (nearly three hours long) academic examination of the business and its many influences, using inspiration from Daniel Herbert’s 2014 book, “Videoland: Video Culture at the American Video Store.” Perry doesn’t bring the joy for “Videoheaven,” but he comes prepared with hundreds of clips to back up his ideas, creating a visual trek across the once mighty omnipresence of the industry, identifying its cultural power. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com