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“Alas, poor Yorick”.  “Brevity is the soul of wit.”  “To be or not to be”. Some of the most well known lines in English and theatrical history and all from the same play.  Shakespeare’s Hamlet may be over 400 years old, but it certainly has not lost it’s spark...

After 12 years of waiting for a sequel for one of Pixar’s most beloved films, we finally have a teaser trailer for Finding Dory. However, despite the wait, it seems as though nothing has changed story-wise and we continue right where we left off. The animation looks very similar...

Having read a number of negative reviews, I went into Pan with relatively low expectations. After all, there have been so many movies and re-makes about Peter Pan in the past, how could this one offer any originality or flare? However, I must say I was pleasantly surprised. Stylistically,...

Telling a Star Wars fan that you’ve never seen any of the films is akin to telling a devout Southern Baptist that you don’t believe in God – they will regard you with horror and disdain, and immediately start praying for your soul. Star Wars is one of the...

Childhood fears can be the fears that stay with us for life. We’ve all got those films that send us cowering, those TV programmes that give us the shivers. The Impact Film & TV team delve into their childhoods and explain which childhood fears still gives them the creeps....

Though inherently an incredibly manipulative medium, film becomes doubly so when scores and soundtracks play a prominent role; the site of intersection between image and sound is by turns cynically prescriptive and sentimentally liberating. From the taut strings of Psycho (1960) to the exhilarating rush of Bowie’s ‘Modern Love’...

Shops can stock as many Christmas cards and gifts as they want and as early as they want, but Christmas never truly begins until the John Lewis Christmas advert is released. There is only one phrase that could truly sum up this year’s edition; out of this world! The story...