• Chime Out: The Nottingham Music Project Platforming Queer and Female Artists

    From The Sugababes to Shostakovitch, Nottingham-based music commentary site Chime Out reviews music for fun, to be political, and just because they want to. Impact caught up with Mattie and Marie, the recent graduates behind the project, to put the music world to rights....
  • White Filmmakers’ Relationships With Race: The Problem With Malcom & Marie

    Annabelle Underdown Malcom & Marie (2021), written and directed by Sam Levinson, the creator of the critically acclaimed series Euphoria, is a film that attempts to depict the volatility of relationships. However, the potential to explore the complexities of a relationship connected to drug addiction and fame, is superseded...
  • The Meghan Markle Debate

    In January 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced that they would be stepping down from their role as senior members of the royal family. The announcement came after months of scrutiny from the media, criticising almost every aspect of her life....
  • The Changing Nature of Film Criticism

    Film and television criticism has existed from the very beginning of the medium. Whether it was the opinions of professionals with copious amounts of knowledge about the field, or those of everyday film goers simply wanting to share how hot they think an actor is, criticism is something which has...
  • Has Broadchurch Series 2 Been Set-up to Fail?

    ‘The jury’s out’ is the almost unanimous, suitable courtroom-centred idiom currently being used to describe the second series of Chris Chibnall’s Broadchurch. We’re not even at the end of the series and already a verdict has been passed. What was in 2013 considered television critics’ golden child has now become a...