• Impact Film & TV: What’s on in Nottingham?

    Welcome to a new term at UoN. Sometimes, life needs a bit of cinematic entertainment. Be it a post-Ocean Saturday or a stressful Wednesday night, we all occasionally need to escape into the world of cinema. Impact Film & TV have got you covered: here’s where you can get...
  • Trailer Watch – Suffragette

    Documenting one of the most poignant periods of British history, Suffragette, directed by Sarah Gavron, follows the story of the radical Women’s Suffrage Movement, and the trials and tribulations they faced in order to gain the vote, attempt to create change, and become equal to men. The film, directed...
  • Trailer Watch – Krampus

    This is it, people. The first Christmas movie trailer has been released…but it’s not what you’d expect. Despite a traditional start, with presents, family visits, slightly dry Christmas dinner and a shot of Nottingham’s own Market Square in the first few seconds, Christmas is suddenly ruined when all the...
  • Film Review – Legend

    “It takes a lot of love to hate a man this much” narrates Reggie Kray’s wife in the opening of the new British gangster film, Legend.  It is a deft line that embodies the conflicted attitude many Brits have towards the notorious Kray twins.  While they were often brutally...
  • Trailer Watch – Downton Abbey Series 6

    Sad times are ahead for period drama fans as ITV’s iconic Downton Abbey comes to an end this autumn with a sixth and final series. After following the trials and tribulations of the Crawley family, through happiness and sorrow, the new series’ intriguingly bittersweet trailer skilfully creates a sense...
  • Trailer Watch – Arrow Season 4

    Warning – Spoilers! If you haven’t seen the finale of Arrow season 3, stop reading now. Oliver Queen just can’t catch a break. After last season’s epic showdown with Ras’ Al-Ghul, things finally seemed to be looking up for the billionaire vigilante. With his alter ego presumed dead, Oliver...
  • TV Review – Narcos

    Netflix’s latest original offering comes in the form of the crime drama Narcos, focussed on the DEA’s chase of the ‘King of Cocaine’ Pablo Escobar. However, Narcos thankfully does not fall into the trap of being a by-the-numbers crime drama, this series manages to cross the breach into something...