"Love Actually" is not your typical Christmas movie, and that is the very reason I loved it.
In your average Christmas movies, you meet the main family, the family experiences some sort of major event around Christmas (good or bad. See "Home Alone" or "Elf"). The family gets through the event just in time to have a magical Christmas and they live happily ever after. Don't get me wrong, I'm a sucker for this plot line, Christmas is my favorite…
I did not see myself enjoying this movie when it first started just because I am very picky with what genre of movies I like. However, I found myself immediately interested in the mystery and plot of the movie as it picked up. This movie tonally is very dark and the cinematography matches that. The settings were dark, rainy, and moody creating the correct atmosphere for the plot to follow.
I did appreciate a lot of the choices the director…
La La Land pleasantly surprised me in a lot of ways. I am not the typical avid movie or musical fan, so I didn't know how much I would enjoy this movie. However, I can say that this is one of the best movies I've seen recently. For not only the plot, but the cinematography and the style it was shot in.
La La Land introduced us to both main characters, Mia and Sebastian, relatively early on. The film's form…
Tangled has been my favorite Disney movie for a long time for a variety of reasons. The design, character development, score, and plot are unlike other movies in this genre and truly innovative for its 2010 release year.
One of the main things that I love about this movie is the story is centered solely around the betterment of the characters through the film. Both Flynn and Rapunzel only make each other better. Rapunzel is also one of the first…
