6 Films 5 Days

I have had the past week off from school which has been wonderful. In this time my mum also decided to take the week off work and we decided we'd go to the cinema every day (week day). On Tuesday we went twice so here are six short film reviews from five great days.

Films that Inspire Me to Make Films

For a very long time I've wanted to make films. At the age of 8, to a crowd of my own reflection, I gave a wonderful Oscars speech. My friend and I would always make videos on our crappy cameras thinking for some reason that they were Hollywood hits. Some of the best titles included Super Frog, Hopscotch Monster, and Invasion of the Dinos (which sadly never made it to production). I don't know what made us think of those things but I do know what inspires me to write now. So here are eight films that inspire me to make films:

Paper Towns

On Friday this week my sister and I went to see the Paper Towns film and I loved it. Paper Towns is one of my favourite books so I had quite high expectations. I read the book a while ago so didn't really remember why it was a favourite of mine but after the seeing the film , that became clear. That's why today I thought I would share with you my thoughts on the film.

Erin Writes #4 The Fosters

Just when you thought I would stop talking about The Fosters, I come back with a whole post about it. But this isn't going to be me talking about how great the show is or the fact that I ship Jonnor like there's no tomorrow. This is, finally, another Erin Writes post. I made this series when I first started blogging and since then have only written three posts on it. There have been various different reasons as to why I only did three but more recently it was due to my complete lack of inspiration. I went for around two months without writing a single word for any of my books. It didn't bother me too much though until I started watching The Fosters when I realised how long it had been since I had written. 

June Favourites

I know, I know. It's late but I was excited about all the other posts I had planned and just never got round to doing a favourites. There are quite a few favourites this month, especially TV and films so lets get started.

Favourite Films:

Super 8. This easily became one of my favourites films. There isn't anything I didn't love about it and would definitely recommend it. For me, the friendship between the group of boys the film is based around made is so real and beautiful in a way I've not seen in a film before.

Men, Women and Children. I didn't know much about this film but I had heard quite a lot of good things about it and rightly so. I tend to get emotional invested in any film, book, or TV show but this was different. It felt as if I were switching from understanding one character to then understanding another. Each person seemed believable and no one was romanticized for the audience to like them more. This made the film better because it was like real people with real lives. 

Serenity. Obviously you have to watch Firefly first or it isn't as good. But oh boy is this film good. Anything I want to say will give stuff away so I won't say anything, just watch it.

 Favourite TV shows:

Firefly. Watch this before Serenity.

Pretty Little Liars. It started again and it's not long left till we find out who A is (I think). I've been enjoying the new series so far. Only problem is that we need more Ezra please. 

Orange Is The New Black. I waited very patiently for the new series of this show and it certainly did not take me long to watch it. Something that happened about half way through the series really upset me which ruined the rest a little but it was still very good. 

Songs:

Hopeful By Owen will never shut up

This Is Gospel cover by Bethan Leadley

Fallout Shelter

I don't know why I got obsessed with this game in June but I did and still slightly am.

Hope you enjoyed my late June favourites. Comment below if you've liked some of the same things in June or July or any month. That's all for now, hope to see you next time. Bye

Life Update Type Thing

Today I just wanted to give a little life update of what I've been doing and some of my plans. First I'd like talk about why missed a post on Sunday last week. It wasn't that I didn't have time to write or anything like that, it was because I didn't feel like that day I had anything thing to write about. Even though I have notebooks full of ideas for posts, I didn't feel like any of that would be as good as I'd like it to be. I was disappointed that this was first time of the year I went off schedule but I would of been more disappointed if I wrote something I didn't like. 

 On a much happier note, I'm going to see Bethan Leadley (who is Musical Bethan on YouTube) on Saturday. I've wanted to go and see her on tour since she announced it, especially when I found out Dodie Clark will be with her, but I  couldn't find any one to go with me. Then yesterday my sister said she would come (which is good but I feel weird about dragging her along when she doesn't know anything about Bethan) and I'm so excited now because I'm sure it's going to be amazing. 

 Last week I had my third CAMHS appointment. (CAMHS is the place I'll be going to for therapy sessions.) I've been there before when I first had panic attacks and it was just a really great place. This time I'll be having ITP therapy (Interpersonal Psychotherapy) which is specifically for depression and I'm quite hopeful about it. So far, I've only really been getting to know the person I'm working with and even though therapy hasn't officially started, it feels like it's already been helpful. 

 I may have mentioned in another post that I've recently been having friend problems which for a long time have really been affecting me. Now I still talk about it sometimes and I do think about it but I feel now like that isn't as important. That's been helpful for me because it's been difficult to loose a friend who, my whole life, has been there and to not have all my school friends either. It's made worse because I'm not good at talking to people and making friends so a lot of the time I've been alone. This is still a problem I have but realising I need to let go of certain people in my life has been great.

 A few days ago I was watching Supernatural (which I do every day) and it was an episode about a group of friends who film everything in their life so they're basically filming 24 hours a day. This was something I found really interesting and decided to do something similar. I won't be filming everything (also the group of people in Supernatural turned into werewolves which I don't plan on doing) but I'd like to start because one day I'd like to make YouTube videos and this will be good practice. 

 Last week I went see Into The Woods which I wasn't really impressed by. It felt like they weren't sure which way to go with the whole idea. Like there were bits I found really funny but then others that were so serious that the humor was almost inappropriate. There were three things I liked about the film: Chris Pine's song (Agony), when Rapunzel's Prince fell off the wall, and the acting from all of the cast. I've also really been enjoying Hollyoaks recently as Crazy Will is back and as bad as it probably is, he's my favourite person ever on the show. So far in my reading challenge I have finished two books and I'm close to my third which is great because I think I'll be able to complete this years challenge. You can follow that on my Good Reads page here. 

 This has been a bit of an update of what I've been doing recently. Hope you enjoyed it, I just felt like sharing some of this with you. Remember, you can follow me on Tumblr, Pinterest, and Twitter (there are links at the top of the page and the side) for more I've what I've been doing. That's all for now, hope to see you next time. Bye

Top Five Christmas Films

Today I thought I would share with you my top five Christmas films. It's been difficult to just pick five but I think I'm confident in the list now. 

5. 

Scrooge- I love this film so much, mostly because of the songs.