Finding your feet.

Finding your feet is a movie that you probably watch with your parents. I certainly did. On a freezing, icy cold day I took my mother to see it and we both really enjoyed it. When it comes to movies you shouldn't disregard any because of the target audience. This movie had a fantastic cast. If you liked 'Bridget Jones's Diary' then you like Celia Imrie and if you liked Harry Potter 5 then you know who Imelda Staunton is. I loved her so much in the West end production of 'Gypsy' that I now just watch any movie that she is in.

Finding your feet is about dealing with divorce. It's about learning how to live again  after your life has fallen apart. You don't need money or a title to have a good time and see the world, or even to do things that you enjoy and this film shows it in so many different ways.

There were a lot of laughs in this movie and a lot of fantastic and hilarious moments but there was also a plot, a story that was told and it done in the right amount of time as well. Finding your feet has taken the problems that we are more likely to face as we get older and shown us to go back to our roots and what we are good at. To not be afraid of what others might think and to live our life because we only have one and the do need to make sure that we use the time that is given to us.

In this movie I witnessed a different Imelda Staunton to the one that I most recently saw. I even enjoyed Timothy Spall,whom cannot change the way that he looks so often finds it hard to blend in. Even though it will not be taking home any awards, it was probably as much fun to make as it was to watch and it is certainly a movie to watch when things aren't going your way.

The Post

This seems to be something of a remake of the movie 'All The President's Men' but I haven't seen it so I will take the word of others.

Meryl Streep stared in this movie alongside Tom Hanks. I honestly am starting to grow a little bit of admiration for Tom Hanks but I still wont list him as a great actor because it is only his more recent movies that I have actually enjoyed. I struggle now to know when he is acting and when he isn't but that doesn't bother me so much anymore. There comes a time in your career when you been in so many movies that you cannot take on another role properly anymore. It happened with Johnny Depp; the last role that he successfully created was John Dillinger in the movie 'Public Enemies'. No disrespect to Depp but now almost every role that he plays turns in to Jack Sparrow. Before Jack Sparrow and whilst those movies were picking up he could make other movies and change characters successfully but now he can't and he has to start to accept that he can't because his movies are proving that and this is the same for Tom Hanks. I liked his role in this movie and I liked him a lot in it but I do see Tom Hanks, rather than a character in these movies.

Rant aside, this movie is about the newspaper leaks concerning the information on the Vietnam War. It was scandalous and the newspaper in question actually leaked more than other newspapers and like the other newspapers, they went to court and eventually won. The point of this movie is to focus on the character of Streep. She owns the newspaper and she inherited it from her father. Throughout the movie she is portrayed as a weak and indecisive character who is selling the company and not sure what she should do. Should she publish these reports and risk being taken to court, which will in turn greatly impact the value of her company in the stock market? Should she sell the company at all? Should she fight with Bob over this? She never seems to make a decision, always sticking to what the lawyer advises until at the last moment she has the courage to ignore everyone else and make her own decision which leads to all the other papers publishing some of the leaks and a revolution for the freedom of the press.

Again, this is another slice of history that I was never really taught about so it was another educational visit to the cinema for me and one that I enjoyed. There was no real drama so it didn't make me emotional which in turn then didn't impact my decisions emotionally. I liked everyone in this movie, I enjoyed this movie and I learned a lot from it. I would like to encourage anyone who like me, was never taught anything about the Vietnam War to watch this movie.

Darkest Hour

This has become more of a hobby and less of a weekly/daily activity that drives my life. I still spend time in the cinema but I am no longer actively watching older movies that I may have missed along the way.

Darkest Hour is a film about Churchill and as I know nothing about Churchill because I studied WW2 I knew that I had to watch this film. Gary Oldman won the BAFTA and OSCAR for this movie and he thoroughly deserved it. The makeup department won a BAFTA and their work was so incredible that when you were watching the movie you couldn't tell from the face or voice who it was which made it so easy to just sit back and enjoy the movie. I didn't have to try and assess an actors performance because I knew in the back of my head who it was but it wasn't glaring at me.

The contents of this film picks on Churchill taking over, the evacuation of Dunkirk and eventually winning over the people with one of the greatest speeches in time. He was phenomenal and I learned so much from this movie. These types of movies are some of the best types of movies because I can get emotional and know that it actually happened. For some people watching this movie it's like they were reliving history. What they were watching on screen actually happened in their life time and it wasn't just a movie to them but they came out of the cinema screen talking about what a fantastic film it was, how accurate it was and how similar to Churchill Oldman's portrayal was.

Another massive shout out to Kristen Scott- Thomas as Mrs. Churchill. He was a difficult character and that made her life difficult as well but she knew that and she married him anyway. She struggled to live with the pressure that was on his shoulders and equally on hers but in this movie she was so strong and determined. Having seen I, Tonya I still feel that Scott- Thomas was better than Alison Janney. My disappointment is that she didn't win any awards for her performance in this movie because she truly did deserve them and even though there were a lot of good movies last year and there have already been a lot of good movies this year she has been the strongest supporting lady in a movie that I have seen (I haven't seen 'The Shape of Water').

Churchill is a phenomenal movie and if you haven't seen it then you should make sure that you do.