Day: November 25, 2015

Thanks to The Next Picture Show Podcast, I watched this incredibly brutal story with a plot similar to the Hunger Games books written by Susan Collins.  It was a much more violent movie than I usually watch*, but I appreciated the realistic range of feelings expressed by the teenagers.  That said, I’m happy to have watched it, and don’t plan on watching it ever again.

*I needed a palate cleanser after finishing it, but alas it was past my bedtime.

Cost: $3.00 from Videorama
Where watched: at home.

poster from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/?ref_=nv_sr_1

I found myself wondering, as I watched the final installment of the Hunger Games franchise, what else that cute Sam Claflin had been in.  This was my answer and it was a satisfying piece of predictable fluff.  It turns out I had attempted to read the book at some point, but had wandered off before I got very far.

Cost:  I’m embarrassed to say that I found this on some free internet site and watched it there. It involved folding two sheets of paper to block out the ads.
Where watched:  On my computer, while making the rolls for Thanksgiving dinner.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2014/love_rosie.html
(The first two posters listed are actually quite good in a cheeky poster sense.  But the above is how I’ve always seen it packaged.