Ellen Smithies

Love, Death and Robots, Netflix’s latest animated offering, is one of the best things I have seen from the streaming service in a long time. With each stand-alone episode produced by different casts and crews, this smorgasbord of animation, released on March 15th 2019, quite literally has something for...

Anyone who has had the pleasure of delving into the world of video games knows that such an experience is always a magical one – yet with so many games out there, it’s impossible to play them all. Therefore, Impact has compiled together a list of Video Games that...

Over four years since The Last of Us was released by Naughty Dog, and ten months since the it was first announced, a full trailer for The Last of Us Part II has finally been unveiled to the public. The first look at the game, which was previewed at...

Channel 4’s latest sci-fi offering has been the new Electric Dreams, a series of standalone episodes based on the work of famous writer Philip K. Dick. It comes only a couple of years after the release of The Man in the High Castle, another of Philip K. Dick’s works,...

Beyond Grace are a Nottingham-born-and-bred death metal band that originally formed in UoN’s BandSoc in the late 2000s. I sat down with frontman and vocalist Andy, and guitarist (and ex-president of BandSoc) Tim, to ask them about their journey so far, and their newest album, Seekers. 1) So how...

At the beginning of August, a small animation published by the BBC in 2014 caught the attention of an Infowars editor. (For those not in the know, Inforwars is an American radio show that is most famous for its enthusiastic and rage-fuelled host, Alex Jones). This led to a...

2013 saw the release of perhaps one of the most epic films that has graced international cinema in recent years. Now, the trailer for its sequel promises a movie more than able to rival its predecessor. The original Pacific Rim was a smorgasbord of mind-blowingly epic giant robots fighting...