Tom Watchorn

Image credit: Andres Moreno via Flickr Following our crossover with Music in Issue 234, Impact takes a further look at some of our favourite soundtracks and scores in our latest scrapbook… The Nightmare Before Christmas If there is one thing that screams Christmas to me, it’s this: Henry Selick’s...

Image credit: ‘Cliff’ via Flickr In the wake of last week’s Oscars, Alex takes a look at the big winner and its closest competitor; what made them both worthy, whether they will last, and the big question – which one deserved the little golden men the most? So Birdman...

Guess who’s back? Yeah! Its the gang that never left! The creators of Frozen have brought us a short film called Frozen Fever, with all your favourite characters as they prepare the best party ever for Anna’s birthday! The movie is expected to last seven minutes and has managed...

“Our art is a reflection of our reality.” – Ice Cube (Jackson Sr.) N.W.A. rose to prominence as a bookend to the eclectic 80’s in Los Angeles – and to say that is an understatement. The rap group’s meteoric influence in the early 90’s was truly more than a...

Impact caught up with Israeli director Navot Papushado, one half of the team behind Israel’s first horror film Rabies, and Big Bad Wolves which Quentin Tarantino called his favourite film of 2013. Warning: Contains spoilers for Big Bad Wolves. Your debut feature Rabies is the first horror film to come out of Israel, why did...

Ira Sachs’s new film about love, life, and family stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as couple Ben and George. After finally being able to marry, George (Molina) is fired from his post as a music teacher at a Catholic school. Ben (Lithgow) is a retired artist and his...

Inspired in part by a certain Valentine’s Day release (more on which later), Impact takes a look at some of the most terrible films of the last two decades… Batman and Robin (1997) You don’t get a considered ‘the death of a franchise’ without being really, really bad. Not only...