Bria Lou Reviews

Hey Guys x This isn't going to be a long post, but something I did last year was to write out my 'Statistics' - i.e. a list of the things I kept track of over the year, and like last year, I want to share them here, so that I can compare them to last years! Movies Watched:  431 TV Shows Started:  24 TV Shows Finished:  14 Cinema Trips:  29 Books Read:  17 Celebrity Crushes:  10 Fanfic Chapters Uploaded:  156 Blog Posts Written:  118 I feel like I went to the cinema more times than I made a note of, but either way, here's a numerical account of my year! I hope that I feel as satisfied next year with my list as I do now. So, that's the end of 2018 on Lou's world. Have an amazing New Year's Eve, an incredible New Year's Day, and I'll see you in 2019! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Lou

Hey Guys x Welcome to my last favourites post of the year! It's been really fun to look back through all the things I've watched and listened to to decide which I'd include in this post. But it was really hard to decide for a lot of things, and I definitely forgot some things. Either way though, this is a long post! So let's get started! Favourite Movie (1): A Star Is Born I'm not gonna spend too long on this film, because I've mentioned it on here so many times since I saw it, and I'm sure that I'll be talking about it a lot in the new year (provided it gets nominated for the accolades that it deserves... hello Oscars!) but it's definitely one of my favourite films of the year! (2): Atonement Not only did I love this film, but it's here because it bled into both my personal life and my uni life. I loved the film so much that I read the book and chose to write one of my final essays for university on it - and that essay helped me ...

Merry Christmas guys! As usual, this is going to be the shortest of short posts because I'm not writing this on Christmas, and no one's taking the time to read this on Christmas day. But I hope you had a really great December leading up to Christmas, and I hope that you have an amazing Christmas day, whether you celebrate it or not. There's nothing else to say, but thank you for reading, whether it's just this post of all of my Blogmas posts, it means a lot. I'll be posting again before next year, but for today, I'm out! Have a great day! Lou

Happy Christmas Eve guys! When I was deciding what film to review for Christmas Eve, I thought it would be more than fitting to write about a film that takes place on an 'eve'. And what better film than the third in a trilogy that I love? This film is the third film in the Valentines Day/Mother's Day franchise, both of which I thought were really interesting and love to watch repeatedly. But as you can guess, this story captures the lives of a set of New Yorkers on New Year's Eve. For some, they couldn't care less about the end of a year, but for others, it's the most important night of their lives. It's hard to give a more detailed description than that because each person's story is quite short, and I don't want to give anything away about any of the particular stories. The thing that this trilogy as a whole does really well is that each of these movies does a good job of setting up the characters. You don't get a lot of time with a...

Happy Blogmas Day 23! Here's another rambly post for you - and the last Christmas-based post before actual Christmas, as tomorrow I'm uploading a film review. It's so weird that I'm this close to the end of Blogmas when last month, I wasn't even sure that I was going to do it. And I guess that's what this post is about. I have no idea what's going to happen this time next year, but of course it's entirely possible that next year is the year that I give up Blogmas. As much as I hope that it's not, I don't want to forget how much time writing all these posts took, and the effort that it took to come up with 25 ideas and watch 12 movies specifically for this purpose. And next year, I might decide that it's not something I want to do, or I might decide that doing Blogmas is exactly what I need to do. But if it's not, then this will be one of my last ever Blogmas posts. So I wanted to think a bit about what Blogmas has meant to me o...

Happy Blogmas Day 22! This is one of those films that I've heard a lot of people talk about, but for some reason I just never thought about watching it. But like 'Midnight Sun', it's on Amazon Prime, so I thought that I'd give it a chance and add it to my Blogmas watch list. Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a pharmaceutical salesman who knows just what to say to impress the ladies. That is, until he meets Maggie (Anne Hathaway), a woman with Parkinsons who he takes an instant liking to. But as their relationship develops, and becomes something real for the first time in both of their lives, can either of them handle a serious commitment? The film begins by showing Gyllenhaal's character having dinner with his family, and this made me instantly warm to the film. In the moments where the characters were arguing and making snide comments and talking over each other, it felt real, like you were getting a peek into someone's real family dinner, which se...

Happy Blogmas Day 21! I love winter. Every time we get to Blogmas, I go on and on about how much I love this time of year and my love for the winter never lessens. So for one of the last actual Blogmas posts before Blogmas is done for the year, I thought I'd talk about how I like to spend winter days, particularly those indoors, when there's nothing to do and it's too cold to go outside. Let me know in the comments how you spend winter days! Watch Movies Based on the amount of movie reviews I do, I think it's clear that watching movies is without a doubt one of my absolute favourite things to do. So of course, on winter days this is how I spend a lot of my time. But even if you're not as into movies as I am, is there anything better than having a Christmas movie on in the lead-up to the big day? Binge TV Shows This is something that everyone loves to do, and the Christmas period is the perfect time to do it. If you have nothing else to do, finish of...