Day: July 22, 2016

One Story: Momentum

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Due to a hitch in the giddy-up of the beginning of my subscription to One Teen Story I received two issues in quick succession.*  This was a very good saying goodbye story, in this case two friends about to be separated after their high school graduation.

I also dig the cover.  I have to say, the presentation of One Teen Story is much more fun than One Story. You get a cover design and there are little YouTube clips.

*Although looking at the website, I see that I missed an issue between the two.  To contact customer service again or not? Hmmm.  That missing story does look quite good.

Three sentence movie reviews: Comet

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This movie was trying to be something it failed to be, what with the jumbled time line and the scritch-scritch effects.  It wasn’t a winner in the “Whoa! Super Artsy, Man!” category, but the story of the ebb and flow of the romance was interesting enough.  Both actors were quite solid in their performances.

Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home.

I’ve pledged to call out when I see movies unapologetically using fat people to further their plots. In this movie, Justin Long is waiting in line and a teenage girl keeps talking to him.   The guy in line behind Justin Long insults Justin Long for his fat date (the teenage girl), thus trying to set himself up as looking good for Emily Rossum.  I see that the script is using his words to depict this guy as an asshole, but what he said was troubling enough that I gave a cry of dismay and then the movie just floated on by that incident. leaving the fat joke hanging out there.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2014/comet.html