• Star Wars’ Future Han Solo Movie – Director’s Cut Out

    Controversy and justifiable doubt has engulfed Disney’s recent decision to fire Miller and Lord, the up-until-now directors of the as-yet-untitled Han Solo Star Wars movie. Fans vocalized their arguements against the ruling and apparent suppression of creative freedom, whereas others understand Kathleen Kennedy and co. were entirely justified in...
  • Blue Stockings @ Nottingham Lakeside Arts

    The fifth collaboration between Lakeside Arts and the New Theatre presents an exciting and engaging take on Olivier Award-winning playwright Jessica Swale’s Blue Stockings, mixing laughter with heartbreak as director Martin Berry takes us through the trials and tribulations faced by the first women who tried to win the...
  • What is UoN’s Best Campus Bar?

    Years ago, students embarked on the bravest challenge of them all: The ‘Campus 14’. Freshers would traverse University Park’s halls, downing pints in each of their bars, trying to stay alive. In 2001, the event was officially (but ineffectively) banned due to students requiring medical attention; however, with the...
  • The Black Dog On My Sofa @ NNT

    Callum Walker’s The Black Dog on my Sofa has a lot to say about depression, and for the most part it does so in original and interesting ways, tackling the issue from a fresh, non-preachy perspective, which will no doubt help some people better understand the better. Essentially a...
  • UoN students help the ‘People of the Streets’

    Everybody knows that homelessness is a big problem in Nottingham. You can’t go for a walk through the city centre without seeing half a dozen people huddled up in their sleeping bags in the cold. A start-up company based in Nottingham, People of the Streets, is seeking to change...
  • An Open Letter to Maroon 5: ‘Cold’ Review, and the Inevitability of Changing Artistry

    Oh, Maroon 5 – it doesn’t usually matter when a band or artist changes – you’ve proved that plenty of times yourselves since your days as Kara’s Flowers – but it does when you move into the blandest, most derivative direction possible, so much so that this ‘change’ is...
  • Valentine’s Day Special – Dating Horror Stories

    In honour of the most marmite day of the year, Valentine’s, Impact Features hit Mooch to ask students about their best and worst dates. Turns out, most people don’t have many positive date stories, but were perfectly willing – their tongues loosened by Carlsberg and cocktails, no doubt –...
  • Alternative Valentine’s Day Poetry

    Buying a Valentine’s Day card for your crush, your ‘just-a-fling’ or your partner and unsure what to write in it, fearing that anything you do will just fall into cliché? Not really feeling quoting Shakespeare, Shelley or Duffy, and struggling with your own words? Impact is here to help...
  • First There Was an Opportunity. Then There Was a Betrayal. Then There Was This: T2 Review

    Over two decades after the release of Danny Boyle’s seminal cult classic Trainspotting, all our favourite anti-heroes are back with new outlooks on life, ready to face new challenges and even bigger heists. But it isn’t the 90s anymore, and with the drugs (largely) thrown out of the window,...
  • Was ‘The Final Problem’ the end for Sherlock?

    Well, that was truly something. After a shaky start to this long-anticipated series of Sherlock and a far better second episode almost ruined by a final five minutes which seemed to unnecessarily complicate the plot, and a trailer for the third episode which seemed equally brash and ridiculous (yes,...