Propercorn Review

Propercorn is a British Popcorn company that started in 2011. Their popcorn is healthy and guilt free. All of their unique flavored popcorn has less than 130kcals per bag. If you enjoy eating healthy but are bored of fruit or snack bars then I recommend grabbing a bag of Propercorn. All Propercorns flavored popcorn are GM, gluten and wheat free.

1) Their Smooth Peanut and Almond flavor popcorn are suitable for vegans. If you love peanut butter or a nutty flavor, you will probably go nuts over these. 

2) A bag of the Lightly Sea Salted popcorn is also suitable for vegans. These will certainly satisfy those who love the classic salted popcorn. 

3) Propercorns unique Firey Worcester Sauce and Sundried Tomato flavor popcorn are also suitable for vegans. If you like food with a kick of chili then these are the right flavored popcorn for you.

4) The Sour Cream and Black Pepper flavored popcorn isn't vegan-friendly, however, is suitable for vegetarians. Sour Cream has been a popular flavor on the crisp market for a while, so I am glad Propercorn has introduced it to the popcorn industry. 

4) My ultimate favorite form Propercorns collection is their Sweet and Salty. A bag of Sweet and Salty is vegan-friendly and is made using sea salt and brown sugar. How I grew up just eating sweet popcorn at the cinema I will never know, there is no going back now. 

5) Sweet Coconut and Vanilla is suitable for vegetarians.  This unique flavour is the perfect mix of Vanilla and Coconut and had me thinking of tropical beaches. If you love the taste of tropical cocktails or delicious coconut then you will certainly enjoy a bag of these. 

My university friends and I tucked into the box of Propercorn, and they were all blown away by the unique flavours and incredible taste. I highly reccomend Propercorn and you can find it in most major supermarkets. Luckily for us they also sell it at our university. Check out there website for more details. https://www.propercorn.com

Best Wishes

Kayleigh Platt

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Disney's Beauty and the Beast live action teaser trailer

Today Disney have released their first teaser trailer for the live action version of Beauty and the Beast. I am in love with the production design. Those beautiful glistening chandeliers and flickering candles make me want to move into Beasts Chateau. Even though we don't see Beast in the trailer I like how we get a glimpse of Emma Watson as Belle. I think Emma will make a fantastic Belle. I am however a little disappointed that non of the characters we hear in the trailer have a french accent. After seeing Disney's other live action films such as Maleficent, Cinderella and The Jungle Book, I am excited for this film and hope it follows in their footsteps.

We will have to wait till March 2017 to see the film!

Enjoy!

Kayleigh 

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Easter Vlog

Hello, I hope you all had a lovely Easter. I spent my Easter Monday at Yorkshire Wildlife Park with my friend and my other friends daughter. I decided to Vlog the day for my YouTube channel.  Check out the video below and don't forget to subscribe. If you enjoy Vlog's, hauls, tutorials and travel videos then I think you may just like my channel. 

Enjoy!

Kayleigh 

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True Cost Documentary

I heard a few people on social media talking about a documentary called The True Cost so I decided to check it out. True Cost is a fashion and environmental documentary that goes behind the scenes of the fashion industry. It shows the audience how growing consumption of fast fashion is having an affect on developing countries, individual lives and of course the environment. 
The documentary left me rather speechless and in shock. We all are familiar with sweat shops and poor working conditions in developing countries. But this documentary really delves in further to show how we as fast fashion consumers are affecting peoples lives. Not only are we affecting people's lives but we are slowly killing our planet, by buying products that are made using life threatening chemicals and non biodegradable fabrics. 

I think its really important that everyone should watch this documentary. Its now available to watch on Netflix. Leave comments bellow on your thoughts of the documentary.

Kayleigh

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The Oscars

So Leonardo finally got his Oscar. I knew it would be his year and thought The Revenant was a great film. However it did make me feel very uncomfortable and feeling a little sick with all the gore.  I do wish however 9 year old Jacob Tremblay from Room would have won an award because tbh I think his performance out shines all of the lead actors who were nominated. If you haven't seen Room I highly recommend it.  This year I tried to predict the Oscars and surprisingly I did well compared to my BAFTA predictions in a previous post. Check out my video bellow to see how well I did predicting the Oscars. 

I should be on the Oscar judging panel next year!

Kayleigh 

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Jungle Book Trailer

The Superbowl has become huge in the UK. Even though I haven't jumped on the band wagon and watched it yet. Its still my favourite time of the year because of all the movie sneak peaks and trailers. 

Check out Disney's new trailer for the Jungle Book below. With a talented cast which includes the likes of Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Idris Elba and newcomer Neel Sethi as Mowgli. Its action packed CGI sequences and catchy tunes are not to be missed. 

How amazing does it look. Disney's live action films just keep getting better and better.

Enjoy

Kayleigh 

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BAFTA 2016 Predictions!

The BAFTA's will take place on February 14th at the Royal Opera House in London. I think 2016 so far has been amazing for film. We have had incredible releases such as The Revenant and Room. Not only have we seen talented directors, creative cinemaphotographers but also outstanding performances from actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Eddie Redmayne. As a film student the award season is certainly my favourite time of year for film, not only is a great time to watch incredible movies but it is also very inspiring. Below are my predictions for this years BAFTA awards. I have based my predictions on current winners this award season and of course my own opinion who I believe should win.

Best Film- The Revenant

Outstanding British Film- The Danish Girl

Adapted Screenplay- Room

Original Screenplay- Ex Machina

Leading Actor- Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant

Leading Actress- Brie Larson for Room

Supporting Actor- Christian Bale for The Big Short

Supporting Actress- Alicia Vikander for Ex Machina

Director- Alejandro G. Iñárritu for The Revenant

Kayleigh 

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My 87th Academy Awards Predictions (Oscars)

As well as my love for fitness and health my biggest passion is for the performing arts and the film industry. You may have seen my previous review on the beautiful film The Theory Of Everything so I thought why not try and predict the results of the upcoming 87th Academy Awards. I haven't seen all of the nominated films however I am an avid award season watcher and follower so I know how well they have being doing so far.

 

1) Best Picture- BoyHood

 

 

2) Best Actor- Eddie Redmayne The Theory Of Everything

 

3) Best Actress- Rosamund Pike Gone Girl

4) Supporting Actor- JK Simmons

 

5) Supporting Actress- Patricia Arquette 

 

6) Best Animation Feature Film- Big Hero 6

 

 

7) Best Cinematography- The Grand Budapest Hotel 

 

 

 

8) Costume Design- The Grand Budapest Hotel

 

 

9) Directing- Richard Linklater Boyhood

 

 

 

10) Best Adapted Screen play-  The Theory Of Everything

 

 

I know I haven't done all of the award predictions but there was so many and I am not clued up on foreign language films or documentary's so I thought I would just stick to the things feature films I have seen and know about. if you would like to take a look at the nominations or predict them yourself then head over to www.oscar.go.com  

 



 

Kayleigh x

The Theory Of Everything!

Yesterday despite the heavy snow here in the North of England me and one of my closet friends decided to venture out into the Narnia like world outside and go see The Theory Of Everything and go to one of our favourite Leeds Bars called the Alchemist which I highly recommend. We both have being waiting a while to see it and have heard so many great things about it. So been the Performing arts students/film geeks we are, we couldn't wait any longer. The Theory Of Everything stars the utterly talented Eddie Redmayne and the beautiful Felicity Jones as Stephen and Jane Hawking. Everyone should know who Stephen Hawking is and if you don't well all can say is crawl out from under your rock and do your research. He is one of the great Physicist that has ever lived. The film follows Stephens life from being a PHD student at Cambridge to becoming the successful physicist he is today all whilst dealing with his fast developing Motor Neuron Disease and the struggles of family life.
To me Motor Neuron Disease is not a disease that's well known and I personally knew little about it before watching this film. I think this film is a great teaching platform to get the message across about the disease and to teach people about its affects and symptoms.
Eddie Redmayne did an absolute wonderful job and certainly deserves all the awards he has being winning and fingers crossed he bags that Oscar. He certainly is a very versatile and passionate actor and from watching his role as Stephen I can tell he spent many hours developing the character by researching the disease, and watching Stephen hawking.
I also think Felicity Jones as Jane deserves to win those awards too. For me her performance stood out in the film compared to anyone else because I believe her character went on the biggest journey emotionally. As an actor if you can get your characters emotion on screen or stage felt by the audience even though they haven't being through the same thing as the character, to me that's impressive. through out the whole film I felt like when Jane's stressed I am stressed, when she's happy I am happy. It takes extremely talented actors to do that.
I highly recommend this film to everyone even if you don't think its your thing. its just simple and beautiful!

Kayleigh X