• Film Review – Heart of a Dog

    Last night she dreamed she was pregnant. She dreamed she was giving birth. The doctors handed her the new-born in a blanket. It was her dog. A Rat Terrier, specifically. But of course for the dog to come out, the doctors had needed to get the dog in first....
  • SU Leader Elections 2016 Results Night – Live Feeds

    Follow along with the results night of your Student Leader Elections 2016 with our live feeds, and keep an eye out for our interviews with the winners throughout the night: Tweets by @impactmagazine #studentleaders16 Tweets Get involved with the hashtag #studentleaders16 Find out more about the elections here Follow Impact...
  • UON MEDIA EXCLUSIVE with Jeremy Corbyn: “I wanted to do my best to say something different”

    On Thursday 11th February, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn visited the Frink Exhibition at Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts Centre before moving to deliver a speech for the University of Nottingham’s (UoN) Labour Society and general Labour supporters. After succeeding Ed Miliband and assuming party leadership in September 2015, Corbyn has sought...
  • A Lot Of Talk, No Action – Sexual Consent at the University of Nottingham

    University has traditionally been seen as the perfect arena to explore sexuality, notoriously a melting pot of brief relationships, casual sex, and experimentation. In light of growing national media attention and a call from various groups and the government, Impact News investigates the darker side of sexual experiences, if...
  • Film Review – 45 Years

    Early on in 45 Years, Tom Courtenay’s Geoff receives a letter from Switzerland pertaining to a significant event (which I will not reveal here) which occurred long before he met his current wife, Charlotte Rampling’s Kate. How quickly this news seeps into and to quote Kate “taints” everything they have...
  • Attractions: What do FKA twigs and Silent Cinema Have in Common?

    On the 13th of August, FKA twigs released her third EP M3LL155X (reviewed here). Possibly more interestingly, a self-directed 16½-minute promo film was released simultaneously. This short is elsewhere rightfully being discussed as a standalone work of art, but it is also interesting for what it is indicative of...
  • Showing Not Telling – ‘Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise’ and TV Documentaries

    With a critical response size probably disproportionate to its viewing figures, Mark Cousin’s cine-docu-essay-poem Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise aired on Saturday as part of the BBC’s coverage remembering the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings 70 years ago. The manner in which the film was constructed, while typical of...