The Weekly Round Up #15: Funny Girl & A Weekend by the Sea Photo Diary

The Weekly Round Up #15: Funny Girl & A Weekend by the Sea Photo Diary

Sunday, 19 June 2016

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The last couple of weeks have been manic! Really manic, but so much fun. So I thought I'd sit down and tell you about all the things I've been up to for the past couple of weeks

Last weekend me, my mum, sister and aunty went into London to see Funny Girl at The Savoy Theatre. It was amazing! We had dinner in Kasper's, The Savoy Hotel's fish restaurant, beforehand. It was an incredible experience. I was not fancy enough to be in that restaurant. I kept putting my elbows on the table and I asked for ketchup... which they didn't bring me. Anyway the food was really good and the show was wonderful! I'd been so excited to see it, Funny Girl is my absolute favourite musical, and I enjoyed it so much. I was a little disappointed when I found out that Sheridan Smith is still on leave, but her understudy Natasha J. Barnes is excellent. The whole experience was amazing.

So onto this weekend, when me, my sister, niece, nephew, two of my aunties, two of my cousins and my second cousin - I'm from a HUGE, close knit family - headed to Great Yarmouth for a weekend of sunshine, sea and sand. There was definitely sea and sand, but not a whole lot of sunshine. We were there for three days and it rained for most of it, but we still had a great time. I ate so many hot donuts!  We played on the 2p machines in the arcades, went on fairground rides, walked along the pleasure beach and ate all the food. It was a lovely way to spend the weekend.

What have you been up to lately? Let me know by commenting below, on twitter, or dropping me an email at lolarocknroses@gmail.com. Check out my instagram, facebook, bloglovin', snapchat -search lolarocknroses - & pinterest for regular updates.

The Last Five Years: Movie Review

The Last Five Years: Movie Review

Monday, 18 May 2015

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I was going to wait to talk about The Last Five Years until my May Favourites - where it will definitely be making an appearance! - but it's so amazing that I just couldn't wait. A musical obsessed friend of mine was pestering me to watch this for the longest time but I just never got round to it and then I saw the dvd in Asda on my lunch break and it was pretty much a no brainer. Anna Kendrick in a musical? Obviously I was going to love it!

Starring Queen of Everything/Every Woman's Girl Crush Anna Kendrick (all the hearteyed emojis! Seriously ALL of them!) as struggling actress Cathy Hiatt and Broadway Baby/Smash Alumn Jeremy Jordan (more hearteyed emojis) as aspiring writer Jamie Wellerstein, The Last Five Years follows Cathy and Jamie's relationship from the dizzying early days to their struggle as it ends. Cathy's songs begin at the end of their relationship and work backwards with Jamie's songs starting from the beginning of their story. The format of the musical is quite strange because it's constantly jumping from the beginning of their relationship to the end until they meet in the middle but I think this is part of the reason it's so good because it gives you both points of view. Another strange but good thing is that despite the fact that Cathy and Jamie are nearly always together they only sing together once, but it's so lovely when they do. I was in absolute bits by the end of the film, I cry at everything, but I think this film would melt the heart of even the stoniest of musical haters,  I just couldn't understand why they weren't together! I knew why but it just didn't make any sense to me! What can I say? I'm a hopeless romantic 'till the end (read more about that here, here & here)

As you can probably tell I absolutely loved this film. I was annoyed with myself for not watching it sooner, that's how good it is! Seriously! I don't have a bad word to say about it. The story is wonderful and happy and sad all at the same time. Jeremy Jordan is incredible, Anna Kendrick is even more so and the two of them have such amazing chemistry! Everything about it is awesome! It is shot so beautifully with some amazing shots of New York - all the heart eyed emojis! Side note: has the world ran out of hearteyed emojis yet? Because I keep using them all! - Anna Kendrick rocks some seriously amazing vintage clothes and the soundtrack is BEAUTIFUL! I'm obsessed with it, I downloaded it the second the film ended and have been listening to it constantly ever since and `yes before you ask I am listening to it right now. Overall it's a really amazing and sadly underrated film I love it!

If you haven't seen it then check out the trailer below.

Have you seen The Last Five Years? What did you think? Did you love it? Did you not? Let me know on twitter, by commenting below or even dropping me an email at lolarocknroses@gmail.com. Also check out my instagram. facebook, bloglovin, pinterest & snapchat - my username is lolarocknroses - for daily updates.

Sorry this was late, it was supposed to go up yesterday but I've got a lot of stuff going on at the moment - 2 assignments, a presentation for my dissertation, my brother's wedding, actual work... the list is endless - so I will be blogging as much as I can but some days will be missed because sometimes it's just unavoidable.

I'll be back on Tuesday if uni work permits.

Until then

Love love love xxx

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