• How the Beloved Have Fallen: A Eulogy for Peter Rabbit

    We are gathered here today to remember fondly our good friend, Peter Rabbit, who sadly passed this year, along with the remainder of our childhoods. No, seriously, what the hell was that? For those of you who haven’t seen the trailer (watch above at your peril), Peter Rabbit (James...
  • Trailer Watch – The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

    Described as “the Rosa Parks of the LGBT movement”, and a household name amongst LGBTQ+ people and activists, Marsha P. Johnson was an icon of the 1960s gay rights movement. Her death was ruled a suicide, but now a new Netflix documentary gives an alternative theory. The Death and...
  • Death Note – A Whitewashed Reflection of a Beloved Anime

    Since its debut in 2006, Death Note has become one of the most successful and well-known animes worldwide. It is therefore unsurprising that director Adam Wingard made the decision to create a feature-length production based upon the original Japanese work. Yet the term ‘based on’ must be used loosely,...
  • Scrapbook – Ten Years On…

    In honour of the University of Nottingham’s very own NSTV celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, Impact are looking back at what else first appeared in 2007. We’ve compiled a list of ten things that are now ten years old, so get ready for a jump back into pop...
  • Trailer Watch – Lady Bird

    After making her name as part of the mumblecore movement (a term she detests), Greta Gerwig turns to directing her own work with Lady Bird. Although not much is known about the film’s plot, the trailer shows us a young student named Christine (Saoirse Ronan), who is dissatisfied with...
  • Look Out For… September

    As university creeps around the corner, September can be a mixed bag of emotions. So how appropriate that, in terms of cinema, audiences have such an eclectic range of choices! The Victorian era is well represented by Bill Nighy’s The Limehouse Golem, about a series of murders supposedly committed...
  • Obi-Wan-ts and Obi-Don’t-Wan-ts

    Following (and long before) the recent announcement that Disney finally is moving towards the release of an Obi-Wan Star Wars spin-off, there has been plenty of speculation about what such a film might look like. For this article, we’ll be discussing what we want and don’t want from an...