Bria Lou Reviews

Hey Guys x Welcome to my first 'Favourites' post of the year! Already there have been so many things that I want to include, but I figure as it's the first one, I'll just give you a few of my faves and then save some for future months, if I still love them. Tell me in the comments what you've been loving so far this year! Favourite Movie: The X-Men Franchise I have been so into this lately! I always say that I'm a fan of 'Marvel', but until this week, my love and knowledge has exclusively covered the 'Marvel Cinematic Universe', rather than the rest of the Marvel movies. So I thought I'd change that and start watching this series of films. Every night I've been watching 1-2 a day (and I currently have two left) and I've just completely fallen in love with this world. I've also kind of fallen in love with James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Hugh Jackman, but that's neither here nor there - these films are so good! F...

Hey Guys x I've been having a bit of creative uncertainty recently. If you've been reading my blog for a while, you'll know that one of my biggest passions is writing fanfics. It's something that I spend a lot of time on, and something that I love and feel so passionate about. This may sound a bit insane, but I have just under 80,000 words of a story written that I haven't done anything with yet, because I'm uploading two different ones that have already been finished. 80,000 words is literally as long as a book, so it's crazy that I haven't started to upload it or anything. But anyway, so I've been editing the story before I finish it (probably in another 80,000 words!) and I've gotten to the point where I just feel completely unsure about it all of a sudden. I don't know if it's good enough, I don't know if it's well written, I don't know if anyone will actually read it when I do upload it, and it sucks. I'm...

Hey Guys x This is the first film I'm reviewing that's an Oscar contender (aside from Get Out back in April), which means that Awards Season is truly upon us! Anyway, I'm gonna get on with the film review because I have a lot to say! This film is about a woman called Mildred Hayes. At the start of the film, her daughter had been murdered 7 months previous. Disillusioned with the fact that the police department haven't managed to find her killer, she decides to move them along. To do this, she puts up three billboards with messages inspired to make the police stick to their current task - finding her daughter's killer. However, with one of the messages targeting the highly revered chief of police, her billboards become a very significant problem for everyone in town. But who's to blame? The chief, his immature, racist second-in-command, or the woman that made everything worse by trying to make it better? I LOVED THIS FILM. Loads of people have been sa...

Hey Guys x I watch a lot of films, most of them I don't review either because they're old, or I didn't feel a particular way about them. I honestly thought that this film would go into the 'there's no point reviewing it' category - boy was I wrong! On the surface, this film is about a detective sergeant in Scotland who is trying to solve a murder case. But Bruce Robertson is as dirty a cop as they come, he's manipulative, homophobic, sexist, racist, abusive, just an overall arsehole. However, as we delve deeper into the character, and notice that he begins to have what can only be assumed as a mental health breakdown, we start to understand what makes this man what he is. And the more we watch him, the harder it is to look away from this downward spiral. That's the best way I could describe it, because let's be honest, this film is the best form of crazy. The character of Bruce Robertson isn't someone that you're supposed to like. H...

Hey Guys x This is my first post of the new year, so happy new year everyone! I'm starting with a film review, because why not? I had been wanting to watch this film for so long, because I'm a fan of both Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen, so I thought that seeing them in a movie together would be amazing. The film is about a girl called Ingrid (Plaza) whose life seems to be pretty directionless. She's just lost her mother and inherited a lot of cash, but she has nothing to do with it. However, through the eyes of Instagram, she becomes obsessed with a girl called Taylor (Olsen). So obsessed that she decides to use the money to move to LA to meet Taylor in person. When the girls eventually meet, they become friends. But there are cracks in their lives that the other never expected. And what started as a social-media based friendship, becomes an IRL nightmare. I loved this film a lot. As someone who, like most people my age, uses social media quite a lot, it's...