• Trailer Watch – London Has Fallen

    What do you expect from a generic action movie trailer? Lots of gunshots, explosions, too much plot revealed, a plot that involves some kind of world-domination or global issue, a global issue that involves the President of the United States, lots of Inception-esque ‘bwaaa’ sounds, people talking with the...
  • Film Review – The Lobster

    The Lobster is one of the strangest, most surreal and original films I have ever seen. It’s set in a dystopian society where single people are sent to a hotel to find a partner within forty-five days. If you fail, you will be transformed into an animal of your...
  • Don’t Make Me Watch – Revisiting Childhood Nightmares

    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....
  • Film Review – Deathgasm (Mayhem 2015)

    The name of this film hints at two things: it’s not for the faint-hearted and is most likely going to be absolutely insane. I can confirm Deathgasm certainly lives up to its title. This indie horror-comedy, from New Zealand, is about young metalhead Brody and his friends as they...
  • Trailer Watch – Hail, Caesar!

    The words ‘a Coen brothers film’ and ‘director of photography Roger Deakins’ is enough to get any avid film fan excited. Combine this with an all-star cast made up of Josh Brolin, Scarlett Johansson, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand and many others, should get...
  • Trailer Watch – Mockingjay Part 2

    The highly anticipated final chapter to the popular YA franchise, The Hunger Games, has just unleashed its final trailer for Mockingjay: Part 2 and it’s certainly more action-packed than anything from Part 1, including the film itself. Since the actual book had one of the worst-receptions by fans, it...