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Tarik Mohammed El-Sayed When I was given the opportunity to highlight and analyse an album cover of my choosing, ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ stood out to me immediately. This 2015 album by Kendrick Lamar follows themes of the American government’s exploitation of black art, the effects of success, and...
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Calista Kiloh Nottingham New Theatre’s (NNT) 2026 Spring Season continues with the Shakespeare classic, Hamlet. Ahead of their opening show on Thursday 18th, an Impact writer interviewed the production team for NNT’s Hamlet – Sienna Lorenz (Director), Grace Morrell (Producer), Sophie-Ella Hill (Producer) and Arwyn Clayton (Assistant Director) –...
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Evie Scott In a world where our every action revolves around the constant use of social media, where people base their lives on of the perceived lifestyles of others, it is important that we remember there are ways of having fun, building relationships and improving skills that don’t include...
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Ben Atkinson One Battle After Another was certainly a winner at the Oscars, and Marty Supreme was certainly a loser, but – in the wake of the Warner Brothers acquisition – it’s unclear which category general audiences fall into. While it is encouraging to see films such as the blockbuster Sinners and the independently made One Battle After Another duking it out on the highest awards stage...
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Aneline Wood & Grace Morrell Machinal, the last play to be directed by Charlotte Reay, is meant to be a full-circle moment – the theatre play that got the president into theatre, and directing, to begin with. The vision was fully realised: the emotional rollercoaster the performance induced was...
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Aimee Goldblum In the run-up to the Oscars this Sunday, Timothee Chalamet is the name on everyone’s lips. Despite a neck-and-neck race between the Best Actor nominees, Chalamet seems to have drawn the short straw in the awards season discourse that plagues the media each year. Voting for the...
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Josh Taylor The last few years have seen AI-generated content infiltrating our everyday lives, whether on social media, Google search results, or chatbots. Its next victim is already in pursuit: the film industry. A recent AI-generated fight scene between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise swamped social media, raising concern...