Joe Jones

Who wouldn’t secretly want to watch a film about killing your friends? I was one of the many people drawn in by the premise of a power hungry man, who will do do whatever it takes to make it to the top of his career ladder – even killing...

Childhood fears can be the fears that stay with us for life. We’ve all got those films that send us cowering, those TV programmes that give us the shivers. The Impact Film & TV team delve into their childhoods and explain which childhood fears still gives them the creeps....

Though inherently an incredibly manipulative medium, film becomes doubly so when scores and soundtracks play a prominent role; the site of intersection between image and sound is by turns cynically prescriptive and sentimentally liberating. From the taut strings of Psycho (1960) to the exhilarating rush of Bowie’s ‘Modern Love’...

Shops can stock as many Christmas cards and gifts as they want and as early as they want, but Christmas never truly begins until the John Lewis Christmas advert is released. There is only one phrase that could truly sum up this year’s edition; out of this world! The story...

Last week saw an influx of Back to the Future nostalgia and Star Wars hype. So it would be easy to have missed this great little trailer from Universal Pictures. “Don’t Panic!” Yes the second Dad’s Army trailer has been released! Based on the 70’s TV show of the...

It is a universal fact known amongst my friends, that if they mention any film of the past hundred years, I will probably never have seen it. I am unashamed to admit that this also includes any and all Disney films (excluding Cinderella 2 and The Lady and the...

Jane Got a Gun is a modern take on the classic Wild West genre. It brings audiences a reversal of the Western’s traditional gender roles, with Natalie Portman slinging a gun like a pro and going after the outlaw gang who attacked her husband. This is the first look...