• 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...
  • Film Review – The Secret Life of Pets

    From Illumination Entertainment (or eeyluminayshuunn as the Minions call it) comes The Secret Life of Pets. Starring Louis C.K. as Max, the main dog protagonist, and Kevin Hart as a small, fluffy white rabbit (stay with me), Pets is Illumination’s answer to “what can the studio do next that...
  • TV Review – Bo Burnham: Make Happy

    When Bo Burnham’s hour-long standup special dropped as a Netflix exclusive last week, I was unsure whether it was fit to be analysed as part of the TV section. It was released on an online television and film network, true, yet anyone who is familiar with Bo’s previous performances-...
  • Scrapbook – Tim Burton Films

    In celebration of Burton’s new film Alice Through The Looking Glass, Impact Film and TV looks back at some of his greatest classics… Beetlejuice This film is weird; ask someone why they like this film and they might struggle to say as it is cinematic Marmite. It has quite a...
  • Film Review – Me Before You

    Romance + disability + convention = cloyingly saccharine + Emilia Clarke = heart-warmingly sweet.  That’s the formula upon which Me Before You is built. Mawkishly and expectedly drowning out its audience with old-fashioned sentimentality, but doing it with Emilia Clarke at your service, is the best way of reversing that...