• Five Things – Best Film Sequels

    Sequels are risky business in the film world. Some perfectly good films have crashed and burned after the release of bad sequels, leaving nothing but a carcass behind. Despite this, not all hope is lost. There have been some very successful sequels that mirror the appeal of their origin...
  • Scrapbook – Fluffy Bunnies

    Easter may have been and gone, but we all still need some fluffy bunnies in our lives! Even if those bunnies are sometimes a bit… well… unusual. Read on for Impact’s compilation of their favourite fluffy (and/or morbid/terrifying) bunnies from pop culture… Suicide Bunnies Cute, small, and fluffy, these...
  • Look Out For… April

    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: April – like its autumn sibling, September – is an ‘in-between’ month in the movie calendar, bridging the gap between awards season and summer blockbuster season. So that basically means that every genre is represented! From Blumhouse horror Truth or...
  • Trailer Watch – Deadpool 2

    Released in 2016, Deadpool was a wonderfully hilarious, action-packed movie, starring Ryan Reynolds as everyone’s favourite anti-hero. The fourth-wall breaks were phenomenal, and the story was surprisingly outstanding. It was a great breath of fresh air compared to the usual portrayals of Marvel’s heroes. It was a phenomenal success,...
  • Trailer Watch – Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

    2016’s Fantastic Beasts brilliantly resurrected the Potter universe by turning the clocks back almost 100 years to give us a completely new perspective on a wizarding world that was larger and more magical than ever. Again penned solely by J.K Rowling and directed by Potter regular David Yates, the...
  • Oscar Diversity and The Inclusion Rider

    Last week I complained about how white the Oscars (and therefore Hollywood) are to this day. What I lightly brushed upon is just how male-dominant the film industry actually is. To start, Frances McDormand had surprised a lot of people on Sunday when she left the stage after collecting...
  • A Reimagining of Macbeth – One Night Only Showing

    Billed as not just a film but a ‘cinematic event’, director Kit Monkman has created the unthinkable – an imaginative new version of Shakespeare’s classic Macbeth. And how has he performed this wondrous feat? By filming the entirety of the play with a backdrop of green screen in order...