Natasha's New Film Blog

I have been behind on my postings recently, in fact I have not done a review since' La La Land' in February. I have not forgotten you readers kind enough to stumble across my page and stay. My final assessments at university have required my attention. So most of my time has been spent writing, just essays on films rather than reviews.   Anyway, university is  pretty much finished (hooray). Meaning I have time to update this blog. I have been to the cinema a few times over the last few months so I have a backlog of reviews to write and post (some of them maybe on the short side as it has been a while since I watched them but hopefully they will be long enough to post).  8 cinema visit reviews coming soon... Hidden Figures  Peter Kay's Car Share 2 - (Not technically a film, a television series but still watched it at a charity screening at the cinema) Beauty and the Beast (2017) BFI Radio Times Television Festival 2017 - (yet again not a movie but held ...

'Another Day of Sun' opening number in 'La La Land'. Today I finally saw 'La La Land' ( Chazelle,  2016 ). I couldn't help but feel disappointed. I am not saying it is a bad movie - in fact it is very good, but I did not feel it lived up to the hype. I got goose bumps at the opening 'Another Day of Sun' number, due to the spectical of it, but probably because I had seen the trailer about a thousand times before today as it looked so perfect and musicals are my favourite film genre without a doubt. I was expecting a modern day 'Singin' in the Rain' (Donen, Kelly, 1952), one of my all time films, and this was not what we got. I did love this catchy opening number though and I did have to try and stop myself singing along to it (no one in the cinema would have wanted to hear that). Plus the very strong reference to the start of  'Falling Down' (Shumacher, 1993) . I enjoyed the clever 'Wizard of Oz' (1939) technicolor open...

Promotional poster for 'A Monster Calls'  This film is dark. Do not be fooled by the fact it looks like it is aimed at children and stars a child. It deals with death and what happens after, for both the person who death is impending for and the family and how they are affected.  I went to see this film about a month ago (had a rush of deadlines so it took me a while to get round to writing this, even though its short) for my friends 21st Birthday. She wanted to see this as she had read the book, which I am glad she had as otherwise it would have been a case of tears on her birthday (her last birthday we saw 'The Danish Girl' (Hooper, 2016), I think she just wants us to be upset on her birthday. 'A Monster Calls' (Bayona, 2017) stars  Lewis MacDougall  as Conor  O'Malley  and is about a pre- teen boy trying to cope with the fact his mother is seriously ill and he is being bullied at school, his only sanctuary is in art. MacDougall's performance rea...

"Cafe Society" poster starring Blake Lively, Jessie Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart I waited months to see this movie, it came out at the cinema in about September but it was only out for about two weeks once a day in my country, which is a shame because its actually a enjoyable film. It just so happens that the cinema near my university was re-running "Cafe Society" last week and I ended up going along before my film lecture (just encase I was short on time spent dedicated to film that day) and I was glad I did. "Cafe Society" stars Jesse  Eisenberg as the central protagonist, Bobby and  Kristen Stewart as Vonnie. These are two actors whose names would not usually draw me in to watch, but actually their acting is pretty good in this, some critics have complained about the lack of chemistry between them, but I think that adds to the charm, it shows the characters awkwardness about regarding relationships and how behave in the 1930s glamorous Hollywood...

This is my first film review, and I am beginning with "Passengers" (2016) as I saw this at the cinema a week ago. Passengers is directed by  Morten Tyldum, a Nordic film director who previously directed "The Imitation Game" (2014), a film telling the true story of Alan Turing (played by Benedict Cumberbatch), one of the Blechley Park mathematicians who cracked Enigma. That film was emotional and brilliant. "Passengers" is completely different. However, in my personal opinion, I did for the most part enjoy it, and I do not think it is as bad as some of the critics have been saying.  Passengers stars Chris Pratt as "Jim Preston" and Jennifer Lawrence as "Aurora Lane" (what else would a sleeping beauty be called) who are two people in the future aboard the star ship Avalon travelling to a new planet with 5,000 passengers and crew, but they are both awoken 90 years too soon. The film I think can be divided into three sections, the fi...

Welcome to my film Blog. I am Natasha, a 21 year old British Film, Radio and Television university student and I like going to the cinema and reviewing films but I have never put my reviews online till now. So welcome to my new blog. I also occasionally stand outside film events to meet actors/ actresses I like in those films. This blog will be mostly (spoilry, you are warned) Film reviews with the occasional television show review and anything else to do with film really.  Enjoy