Bria Lou Reviews

My first Favourites post of 2021! I'll be honest, I'm rushing to get this written and uploaded before April because this month has gone so quickly! I can't believe a quarter of the year is already over. But anyway, here are my January - March favourites! Favourite Movie (1): The Prom To be honest, I haven't seen a huge amount of amazing movies so far this year. So as The Prom has been one of my favourites, it had to go at the top of the list. I reviewed it HERE , and as you can tell from the review, I absolutely loved it. Favourite Movie (2): Yes Day I definitely have a soft spot for movies like this. I didn't end up reviewing it, but I adored it. I ended up watching it two days in a row because I loved it so much. It's about, as you can imagine, two parents who give their children a 'Yes Day', where they have to say yes to doing whatever their children want. It's not winning awards or anything like that, but it's a simple story told in a interes...

I had been looking forward to reading this book for a really long time. Not only because of the great premise, but because of how well-received it was. The story follows two women, one of which is Emira, who is accused one night of kidnapping the white child she is babysitting. The other is Alix, Emira's boss, who will do anything to make the situation right. But the incident sparks a chain of events that will challenge and change the lives of everyone involved. Reading this book, something that I've learnt that I've never considered is the fact that, not being able to put a book down doesn't necessarily mean that you loved it. Because that's how I felt about the book. I couldn't put it down for the 5 days that I was reading it, but once I got to the end, I realised that I didn't love it as much as I thought I did. However, I thought the first chapter was incredible. My heart was pounding, I felt like I was in that supermarket with Emira, and I just couldn...

  I heard nothing about this film before it came out, which was really surprising because it had such a good cast. But even though I'm starting to feel the cancer-movie fatigue, I thought I'd give this one a go. When Daryn (Jaden Smith) finds out that his girlfriend Isabelle (Cara Delevingne) is dying of cancer, he decides to pack a lifetime of memories into the year she has left. I enjoyed this film more than I thought I would. I was surprised at how little this film was promoted, especially because, as I've said, it had a really good cast.    Normally with stories like this, the beginning of the film feels unnecessary because you're waiting to get to the main plot. But with this one, even the backstory was really interesting, and definitely didn't feel unnecessary. I loved the characters, particularly Daryn who is a really great character. But all of these characters have their own stories and lives, and they all feel really well written and thought-out. The relat...

  I did this last month and really enjoyed seeing a comprehensive list of my posts, so I'm definitely going to keep doing it! Here are my February posts! Sightless | Film Review - This was my first film review of February. I liked the premise, but felt let down by the end result. The Rental | Film Review - Again, I liked the premise of the film, but I really didn't like the film itself. Malcolm & Marie | Film Review - This film was highly anticipated by a lot of people before it came out. I wasn't a huge fan. The King of Staten Island | Film Review - I had been waiting to see this film for a long time and it definitely didn't disappoint! The Prom | Film Review  - This is my favourite film of February. I completely loved it, and have had the soundtrack on repeat ever since! Sex Education (S1&2) | TV Show Review  - And this is my favourite show of February! I loved it so much I watched it twice, and I can't wait for the next season. To All the Boys: Always...

When I heard that this was coming out, I went back and read my review for the first version of this movie, the original Justice League. I actually liked it, and saw it purely as entertainment. However, after seeing this one, my opinion about the first has completely changed!    Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) and Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) assemble a team to take down a new enemy, Steppenwolf (Ciarán Hinds). But will this group of heroes save the planet before it's too late? And can they do it without Superman (Henry Cavill)? Okay, so I loved this film! So much more than the first one. In fact, it was so good that it made the first one look bad. For a start, one of my problems with the original movie was that I didn't understand, or even like, the villain Steppenwolf.  The first thing this film does is set up the villain really well. We get more of an understanding into his motivations, and that in turn makes the film make a lot more sense. This is partly because we spend a lot m...

  I had been meaning to watch this for a while, but it kept getting pushed to the back of my To Watch list because my desire to watch it was less to do with my own interest, and more to do with the way that people were talking about it. The reviews and word of mouth made me feel like the film would be amazing, so I knew that I'd either completely agree, or completely disagree. Milla (Eliza Scanlen) is a seriously ill teenager who meets and falls for Moses (Toby Wallace), a drug dealer that her parents disapprove of. But soon, Milla's parents discover how good Moses is for her. I found this one really hard to describe! So as I said, I knew that I'd either love it, or dislike it (because I find that 'hate' is too strong for most movies), and unfortunately I didn't really like it.   For a start, the film begins like a whirlwind. One second nothing is happening, and the next these characters know each other better than the audience do. We don't really have a mom...

  This is a film that I should have watched ages ago. But things kept getting in the way, and I always found something else to be doing. But I finally got around to watching this last week, so here's my review! Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is wrestler who ends up injuring himself due to the demands of his overbearing father (Sterling K. Brown). As stress mounts between Tyler and his girlfriend Alexis (Alexa Demie), a tragedy occurs that changes Tyler and his family forever. I really liked this film. To be honest, it wasn't what I thought it would be at all, but in a way that made it better, because I had no idea what to expect. The film does a really good job of showing both the good and bad dynamics within this family. As well as Tyler and his father, Ronald, the other members of the family are his mother, Catherine (Renee Elise Goldsberry), and his sister Emily (Taylor Russell). No one is inherently good or bad, and their relationships are informed by a variety of different fa...