Bria Lou Reviews

Hey Guys x I am a huge fan of the original Aladdin film, as I am of most animated Disney movies. While I didn't exactly have the highest of expectations for the live-action remake, I did at least have the hopes that it would retain some of the magic that made the original so great. The plot of the film directly follows the animated version. Aladdin (Mena Massoud) is a boy who lives on the street and steals to survive. When he meets Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott), he falls for her instantly, but knows that someone like him could never be with someone who lives in the palace. However, when he accidentally rubs a magic lamp and becomes the genie's (Will Smith) master, everything changes. Can he pretend to be a prince long enough to win Jasmine's heart? Or will he find that he never had to pretend in the first place? Now, I'm just gonna be flat-out honest - I didn't like the film as much as I wanted to. There were some things that I liked more than others, but o...

Hey Guys x This is a book that has been talked about for so long, and for whatever reason, I just didn't feel the need to buy it. I never found out what it was about, and nothing in me really wanted to own it. But then in Waterstones one day, I noticed it was on sale (buy one get one free), so I thought that, since I was there anyway, I might as well pick it up and see what all the fuss was about. Eleanor Oliphant is a creature of habit. She does the same things, in the same way, every single week, and never feels the need to change her routine. But when something out of the ordinary happens, Eleanor chooses to go with the flow. And suddenly, she finds that, as great as her routine is, she's been lonely for far too long without even realizing it. The number one thing that I knew about this book was the way that people described it - everyone describes it in exactly the same way: 'I wasn't sure about it when I started reading, but by the end I thought it was amaz...

Hey Guys x I talk a lot about being a Marvel fan, but don't spend as much time talking about being a DC fan. But I am a huge fan of DC, particularly Superman as a character, and the few films that are included within the DCEU (even the ones that most people didn't really enjoy!). So after I saw 'Justice League', I was really excited to see more of the characters that were introduced in that movie and didn't have their own spin-offs yet. Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) is a half-human, half-Atlantean who is reluctant to take on the mantle of the King of Atlantis. However, when his half-brother (and the current King of Atlantis), Orm (Patrick Wilson), tries to start a war between the sea and the surface worlds, it's up to Arthur to stop his brother by finding the Trident of Atlan and taking his rightful place as King of the ocean. I enjoyed this movie. It wasn't my favourite of the DCEU, but I liked it for the fun film it was supposed to be. I'm not a h...

Hey Guys x If you're a regular reader of my blog you might remember that I mentioned watching a TV show with this name last year. In one of my 'Favourites' posts, I mentioned that I would buy the book when I finished the series, and that's exactly what I did! Because the show and the book are so interconnected, I'm gonna use the description that I wrote for the show to describe the book, because I can't think of a better way to describe it. Harry Quebert is a writer who is being charged with the murder of a 15 year old girl called Nola Kellergan; a girl that he had a slightly more-than-platonic relationship with 33 years ago. Now in the present day, Harry's friend, fellow writer, and protege Marcus Goldman has come to try and clear his friend's name (and write a book about what really happened to Nola). But Marcus discovers a lot more about this quiet, mysterious town than he expected. Can he clear Harry's name, and find out the truth about t...

Hey Guys x Like most people, I heard about this film ages ago, and the name of it stuck in my mind (probably because it's so long!), so once it came out on Sky Cinema, I watched it right away. This film tells the story of Ted Bundy (Zac Efron) and the many awful crimes that he committed through the eyes of his girlfriend, Elizabeth 'Liz' Kloepfer (Lily Collins) who refused to believe the truth about the crimes. This film is a weird one for me. It's based on a true story, as many movies are, but when you research Ted Bundy, what he did and the circumstances surrounding the movie, it doesn't just feel 'based' on a true story, it feels like you're watching hidden camera footage of what actually happened. And as entertaining as that is, it's also really unnerving. The movie does a really good job of allowing the audience to understand Liz's point of view without making us feel sympathetic towards Bundy, which is something that I know a lot ...

Hey Guys x It's that time of the month again, and I've done this so many times that I've run out of ways to introduce the 'Favourites' - maybe I'll stop introducing them? What were your favourite things in April? Favourite Movie: Avengers: Endgame I watched a few good movies this month, but nothing even holds a candle to this epic masterpiece of filmmaking, and I don't say that lightly. I really really loved this film, for reasons that I went into in my review of it, which you can read HERE . But there was no film better than this in April, and if you haven't seen it, go see it! Favourite TV Show (1): Proven Innocent This is one of the best shows on TV right now. And I'm saying that with full knowledge of the other amazing TV shows on right now, but of the ones that I watch, nothing beats this (and I watch a lot of shows!). Proven Innocent is a show about a woman called Madeline Scott who was sent to jail for a crime that she didn't...

Hey Guys x I couldn't fit the other authors in the title of this post, but as well as Rachael Lippincott, the book was also written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis, who wrote the film's screenplay. I reviewed the film version of this book a few weeks ago, and you can read that HERE . But I enjoyed the film so much that, the day after I saw it in the cinema and found out that there was also a book version, I had to buy it. Stella has Cystic Fibrosis... but she also has control issues. She follows every part of her doctor's orders religiously, including the most important rule: always stay six feet away from other CFers. This has never been a problem for Stella, who after all these years is completely used to the fact that she will never be able to hug her best friend, and fellow CFer, Poe. But then she meets Will. And suddenly, those six feet are the furthest distance in the world. Is it possible to fall in love with someone that you'll never touch? I don...