Tom Watchorn

Heading another busy year for comic book adaptations, Kingsman is the latest to make the transition from print to screen. Based on The Secret Service by prolific scribe Mark Millar, it also marks the third consecutive comic book movie for Matthew Vaughn. The premise involves a seasoned spy who guides a wayward...

Poster credit: Tara Hill On March 8th a number of Nottingham’s film clubs are bringing to Worksop the Pleas Fest, a day-long film festival centred on genre icon Donald Pleasence. Impact spoke to one of the minds behind Pleas Fest, Kino Klubb’s Joey Bell, to find out more… What is Kino Klubb? Kino...

It already looks better than the film, but that was not a difficult challenge. April 10 will bring every episode of Daredevil to Netflix. At a glance this may not be what fans expected from Marvel, due to their current popular shows like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. which take a...

1981. One of the most violent years in New York City’s history. The year recorded 188,178 counts of violence, 1,026,757 property damages, 350,422 burglaries, 136,849 vehicle thefts, 5,479 rapes and 2,166 murders. 1981 in New York City was truly a year to have been afraid of. Now in 2015,...

Duck Soup was originally released in 1933 and directed by Leo McCarey, a filmmaker with experience of both drama and comedy. It features the iconic Marx Brothers, a classic vaudeville comedy troupe, who wreak havoc in the fictional state of ‘Freedonia’ and several of its neighboring countries. The antics...

Impact spoke with filmmaker Steve Kahn about his new short film Fear, to be screened on Saturday 24th January as part of the Beeston Film Festival. Did you have any particular influences, cinematic or otherwise, when making Fear? I started out in the sciences, in physics. Early on the sciences...

logo credit: Paul Banks, Peril Design With noble and lofty long-term goals, the Nottingham Alternative Film Network (NAFN) are the latest addition to the film clubs of Nottingham’s cultural hub. Thomas Humphrey, NAFN’s Network Director, explained that he and Network Producer Sanpreet Janjua “both take a firm stance against the mainstream....