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Love Bites
Chris Kavan - wrote on 11/26/2023
This prequel to the original Hunger Games trilogy follows a young Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) decades before becoming the ruler of Panem. Far from the action-driven direction the original films took, this one is more dramatic, more romantic and while it works most of the time, it does seem to drag at times (especially the last act) and could have used a little more kick.
The film is divided into three parts - part one finds Snow, looking forward to winning his school's big prize (and the money is comes with) as his family, Tigris (Hunter Schafer) and his grandmother (Fionnula Flanagan) put on a good show but are woefully short of cash. He has made some friends in school, including the rebel-leaning Sejanus Plinth (Josh Andrés Rivera), who comes from a powerful family. But the Hunger …
