• Trailer Watch – Love & Mercy

    Nowhere Boy follows an adolescent John Lennon as he meets Paul McCartney and forms The Quarrymen. Jersey Boys tells the tale of the rise and fall of The Four Seasons. Love & Mercy is similarly nostalgic, demonstrating the film industry’s tendency to turn to the past for ideas. In...
  • Film Review – The Duke Of Burgundy

    Mild Spoilers It’s 43 years since Brando and Schneider taught the world a new use for butter and in that time as cinemagoers we haven’t advanced much. Either the audience I just happened to witness Fifty Shades of Grey with is the most repressed in history or that cluster of titterers...
  • Around the World in 80 Films #4

    is based on a contagion outbreak in a tower block in the middle of a busy Spanish city centre. Although this was my first foreign film and the subtitles were slightly displeasing, I found this film to be a perfect depiction of how found footage horror films could...
  • Trailer Watch – Community, Season 6

    Yahoo! saved Community and are bringing it into a new ‘dean-mension’. Community’s life appeared to be over after the last season when NBC cancelled the series, but Yahoo! Screen has picked it up and is ready to bring the chaos of Greendale back around for another thirteen episodes. Some things...
  • Film Review – Focus

    In 2006, the BBC broadcasted a television series called Hustle that ran for 8 seasons and followed a group of elite con-artists pulling off scams, and it was incredibly entertaining. Every single one of the 48 episodes involved a clever, solitary twist at the end of each 60 minute chapter....
  • Scrapbook – Soundtracks and Scores

    Image credit: Andres Moreno via Flickr Following our crossover with Music in Issue 234, Impact takes a further look at some of our favourite soundtracks and scores in our latest scrapbook… The Nightmare Before Christmas If there is one thing that screams Christmas to me, it’s this: Henry Selick’s...
  • TV Review – Better Call Saul, First Impressions

    Better Call Saul is a spin-off show which chronicles the misadventures of lawyer James McGill, latterly Saul Goodman, in the time before, during and after Breaking Bad. For anyone who hasn’t seen the acclaimed original series, BB centres on a unfulfilled high school chemistry teacher, Walter White, who begins manufacturing crystal...