Anti-Advent Calendar

The christmas season. Another day, another gleefully inappropriate selection. On to day ten… Recently released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK thanks to the the always left-field Arrow Films, you can now finally buy your grandmother the film she’s always wanted: Nekromantik. Still banned in a handful of countries, Jörg Buttgereit’s...

Christmas. As if you needed reminding about it when there are adverts branding your living room with things you don’t want, differently-shaped chocolates sold in stores for thrice the price, and lifeless trees forced to decay indoors. We’re here to remind you that it is possible to meander the...

Christmas. We’re a week into December and we’re already sick of it. Here at Impact Film & TV, we’re continuing with our list. It’s day eight and we’re taking a trip to a mythical land straight out of Disney. If Disney made porn… Walerian Borowczyk’s soft-core masterpiece La Bête is a film...

Christmas. As if the countdown is still going. And as if we’re stilling sticking with this delightfully subversive advent calendar! Anyway, onto day seven’s pick… If you’re looking for a film to watch with the family this holiday season then this will certainly raise some eyebrows. In 2000 American Psycho introduced...

Christmas. It can be a little horrifying can’t it? We’re not even a week into December and yet we’ve seen city centres swarming with bargain-crazed citizens, windows washed with woven decorations, and lists. Lists and lists and lists. So here at Impact Film & TV, we’re continuing with our own list. Day...

Christmas. It’s a bit… haunting right? We’re barely settling into December and yet we’ve already been bombarded with weeks of overplayed songs that have lost all meaning, adverts about sodding penguins and lists. Lists and lists and lists. So here at Impact Film & TV, we’re continuing with our own list. Our...

Christmas. It’s a bit overwhelming isn’t it? For us to make a commentary on the commercialisation of what is meant to be a religious celebration wouldn’t necessarily leave you feeling philosophised though. So instead, for the fourth Anti-Advent Calendar, we’ll leave it to David Fincher’s Fight Club to punch the point...