• Trailer Watch – Fifty Shades of Black

    How do you make a movie funnier than the funniest movie of the year?  You parody it, of course.  When Fifty Shades of Grey gave couples a great reason to head out to cinemas at the start of this year, the rest of us followed with morbid curiosity. As...
  • Trailer Watch – Zoolander 2

    After a wait of FIFTEEN YEARS, a glimpse of Derek and Hansel walking the catwalk during Paris Fashion Week was better for many of us comedy fans, than Valentino’s new collection! What is even better is the realisation that Derek and Hansel are back to save the world, one...
  • Ad Watch – Sainsbury’s ‘Mog’s Christmas Calamity’

    Last year, retail giant Sainsbury’s retold the touching true story of enemy soldiers during World War One, who met in no-man’s land to share food and play football, as a reminder to us that ‘Christmas is for sharing’. Continuing with this theme, Sainsbury’s have returned this Christmas, with a...
  • Scrapbook – Worst Date Night Movies

    The cinema can be conducive to a fantastic date. Cuddling next to your significant other in a darkened room, enjoying some cinematic magic. But as the Impact Film & TV team have learnt, film choice is everything. They’ve suffered awkwardness, boredom and worse so you don’t have to. Be warned!...
  • Trailer Watch – Now You See Me 2

    After a brilliant first film, the cast of Now You See Me are back for their second run. The trailer includes lots of special-effects, attempting to top the ‘first act’ in terms of both the magicians’ performance, and the film itself. As expected, the trailer is full of impossible...
  • Trailer Watch – London Has Fallen

    What do you expect from a generic action movie trailer? Lots of gunshots, explosions, too much plot revealed, a plot that involves some kind of world-domination or global issue, a global issue that involves the President of the United States, lots of Inception-esque ‘bwaaa’ sounds, people talking with the...
  • Film Review – Steve Jobs

    Since his untimely death in 2011, Steve Jobs has been reincarnated a number of times on the big screen. From the parody film iSteve, to the attempt at a serious biopic in 2013, Jobs, it would be fair to think that this story might already be rather exhausted. However,...