• “An endeavour to do something new to reflect the world where it’s at:” Impact Interviews William Burdett-Coutts

    The Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival, running from the 4th-16th August 2016 is in full swing in Edinburgh and Impact got an exclusive interview with William Burdett-Coutts, CEO of the festival and the man behind Riverside Studios, the company presenting the festival, for a chat about the future of cinema...
  • Trailer Watch – Justice League

    Since the overly harsh critical slaughtering of Batman V Superman, Warner Bros. decided to crank it up to 10 with this year’s San Diego Comic Con Justice League footage. The White Stripes bring in Batman and Aquaman in a macho-man face off of drastically unfair proportions. This footage is...
  • Film Review – The Neon Demon

    The Neon Demon is the tenth film directed by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn; the third consecutively to debut at Cannes and the second to be met there with a chorus of boos. The film is a pristine gut-punch. It follows Jessie, played to career-making perfection by Elle Fanning,...
  • TV Review – Love Island

    For years, Big Brother has been the queen of trashy reality TV, at the forefront of the Daily Mail gossip column and has produced some class celebrities out of the general public (Nikki Graham anyone?). However, this year, despite the best efforts of Marco Pierre White Jr., Big Brother...
  • Game of Thrones Season 6 Review

    Warning: Spoilers ahead! Season six of Game of Thrones has been possibly one of the best yet, and is largely based on original material not found in the words of George R.R. Martin but adapted mostly from his fourth and fifth novels, A Feast for Crows and A Dance...
  • “How Have You Never Seen…Toy Story 3?”

    (Warning: this article contains spoilers) Recently I found myself watching fully for the first time the Toy Story films as – although I could recall bits of them – I had never sat down and given them my full attention. Of course, as every self-respecting Pixar fan knows, this...
  • Film Review – Tale of Tales

    Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is unlike any fairytale movie you’d have ever seen. A mishmash of the fantasy, horror and supernatural genres, it is considerably dark, sinister and a far cry from the Disney classics we’re perhaps more used to. Not darker like many Disney live action productions...