If you have finished your giant stack of DVDs, watched all the shows on your DVR, went through all the interesting things on Netflix and On-Demand and are looking for something else to watch, Amazon has a couple of movie rentals (in HD) on special for 99c each, for a limited time only. Once you pay, the clock ticks. You have 30 days to start watching them. If you don’t, unfortunately you do not get a refund. The movie industry gets to eat that with glee 🙂 The two movies are:

* “Spare Parts” (2015, 24 hour viewing window, 115 minutes)
* “What We Do In The Shadows” (2015, 48 hour viewing window, 86 minutes)

At the Windows Store (accessible with the new Windows 10), for a limited time only, you can rent the movie Interstellar in HD (or SD) for just 99 cents. A Windows Store account is necessary to do this, which should be familiar if you used the Windows 8 or 8.1 “Metro” Store. Once you rent the movie, you have 30 days to start watching it. If you don’t watch it, there’s no refund.

The Google Play store has a new selection of 99c movie rentals. Some of them can be rented in HD for 99c, some in SD only. You can check on each individual movie’s page. As usual, after you rent it, you have 30 days to start watching it. If you don’t watch it within the 30 days, it’s gone, you don’t get a refund. A total of 23 movies are participating and you can rent as many as you want. Choices include:

• “The Hunter” with William Dafoe
• “Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter”
• “Remember 9/11” Documentary
• Enlightened”, an unauthorized Dalai Lama documentary
• and more

Check reviews and previews as the quality of these is all over the place. And needless to say, the perception of quality varies from person to person 🙂

If you have Netflix or Amazon Prime, check there before renting them out. For example, the Dalai Lama documentary is available via Prime.

Decidedly beating even Redbox prices (unless you have the Lucky Rewards promo codes) is a new limited time offer at Amazon Instant Video. You can rent the MockingJay Part #1 movie of the Hunger Games series for just 99c in HD! This is the third movie in the series and runs 123 minutes.

You have 30 days to start watching it after you pay. Once you start watching, you have 24 hours to finish watching it. You can watch and rewatch it as many time as you like during those 24 hours. Given the length of the movie, you can watch it 11 times in 24 hours, unless you skip the credits, then 12 times 🙂

M-Go has a limited time special, offering two different Halo movies as an HD rental for 99 cents each. This includes the brand new Nightfall and the previous Forward Unto Dawn.

You also earn 50 M-Go Rewards points, but M-Go changed their rewards program a few months ago, making it a lot worse. Before the change, you would use the points towards rentals, so if you had enough points, you would get free rentals or purchases. With the new program, you only get discounts on purchases, so it’s really a horrid rewards program.