• Spooky Season Films to get you into the Halloween spirit

    As the leaves start to turn orange and litter the ground, and the days get shorter and colder, it’s time to admit that summer is officially over…and the spooky season has arrived! With the changing of the seasons, as creatures of habit, we return to our favourite movies to...
  • To All The Rom-Com’s I’ve Loved Before

    Whether you are just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her; or delivering the ‘I like you’ speech ‘just the way you are’, there are of course fundamental ingredients which together create the best romantic comedies of all time.  Potential ingredients include but...
  • The Remakes vs Original storylines debate: do we really need another sequel?

    The third instalment of the “Princess Diaries” has been confirmed to return.  Following a popular pattern, this decade of increasing production of sequels/remakes to classic and fan favourites are being released. Are films recently relying too much on our nostalgia, how far is this going to go and would...
  • The Beauty of Complexity: Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’ and the Art of Ambiguous Storytelling

    Sally Rooney debuted her first novel in 2017, when she published ‘Conversations with Friends’, followed closely by the publication of ‘Normal People’ in 2018. Since then, due to the rise of ‘BookTok’, and the production of Normal People as a romantic psychological drama television miniseries, Rooney’s popularity has soared....
  • Kendall Roy: A Contemporary Shakespearean Tragic Hero

    Tom Millward A year on from the conclusion of HBO’s Succession, and any piece of work labelling the show as Shakespearean would be, to say the least, stating the obvious.  Impact’s Tom Millward explores how Kendall Roy embodies the role of tragic hero, and epitomises Succession’s adoption of the...
  • Film and TV Top 10: Christopher Nolan

    Tom Millward With Christopher Nolan recently winning the Best Director award at the Oscars, alongside a general sweep for his work Oppenheimer, it seemed fitting to revisit and rank his previous work. This is the first Top 10 ranking for Entertainment with more retrospective pieces on actors and directors...
  • Gerwig and Robbie Oscar Snub: Why It’s Such A Big Deal

    Alex Broadhurst Last week the 96th Academy Award nominations were announced and the world was shocked to learn that neither Margot Robbie nor Greta Gerwig received nominations in the best actress and director categories for their work in Barbie. Despite failing to recognise the two women responsible for this...