George Driscoll

Director Werner Herzog returns to his favourite themes of travel, culture and exploration in this intriguing ‘biography’ of Gertrude Bell, the famous cartographer, archaeologist, traveller and spy. Her incredible reputation in the Middle East during World War One, led to her influential role in British policy-making and helped found...

The original terminator films are pop culture icons. With Arnold Schwarzenegger as the no-nonsense, gun wielding metal man from the future, his famous lines ‘I’ll be back’ and ‘hasta la vista baby’ have been parodied and referenced hundreds of times over the years. But Terminator: Salvation was a flop,...

This trailer watch offers something a little bit different. Some of the Impact Film & TV contributors have given their thoughts on the trailer rather than a usual write up.  “Do you like your favourite pop songs murdered using high pitched autotune? Do you like the same jokes over...

“I have no morals.” So said director Tom Six, to much audience laughter, during the UK premiere of The Human Centipede (courtesy of Nottingham’s superlative Mayhem Film Festival and Broadway cinema). Those familiar with his already iconic series will likely not refute this claim. The 2009 original caused a stir...

Jenny’s Wedding takes what could be a formulaic romantic comedy and gives it a twist. Katherine Heigl stars as Jenny a woman under a lot of pressure as she gets older and more and more of her family members are getting married and having babies. Her straight-laced family is...

Rocky’s back! Although this time he’s not the one between the ropes as he attempts to train Adonis Creed, the son of his greatest rival. Luckily, the focus is on the young Adonis rather than Balboa. This switch in focus is one of the key reasons that Creed looks slicker...

In the screwball comedy She’s Funny That Way, Peter Bogdanovich shows us his best attempt at a Woody Allen film; the only problem being, he’s not Woody Allen. It is sad to say that this well intentioned comedy misses the mark as the farcical events inevitably lead to a...