• Trailer Watch – Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them

    ‘Never tickle a sleeping dragon’. Or let one loose in New York. Good advice really, and one that Eddie Redmayne’s clearly loveable Newt Scamander should follow. But if the teaser for Fantastic Beasts is indicative of its plot, that is precisely where things go wrong. As far as announcement...
  • Trailer Watch – X-Men: Apocalypse

    This is said practically every year, but 2016 is gearing up to be the year of the superhero (at least, until 2017 comes along). The MCU and DC releases have been getting the most attention, with the build-up for the Batman v Superman and Civil War trailers reaching a...
  • Scrapbook – Biographical Films

    From Gandhi to Selma, Chaplin to The Wolf of Wall Street and Catch Me If You Can to Wild, biographical films, or biopics, have experienced a surge of interest in cinema over the last few decades. Expanding our printed Scrapbook on heroism in biopics featured in our 235th issue, our writers journey through a selection of notable biographical pictures over...
  • Scrapbook – Alternate Cut Films

    With the rerelease of Blade Runner‘s 2007 ‘Final Cut’ this week, our writers slice together some notable nods to films with special editions and alternate cuts in our latest Scrapbook. Blade Runner: The Final Cut Blade Runner is possibly the ultimate ‘alternate cut’ film, with five discrete and distinct edits to...
  • TV Review – House of Cards, Season 3

    Third season fatigue is a common enough pitfall for most shows. For a series like House of Cards, where the lead is, at best, an antihero and, at worst, the most reprehensible character around, the risk is all the more pertinent. How do you keep audiences invested in the...
  • Scrapbook – Terrible Movies

    Inspired in part by a certain Valentine’s Day release (more on which later), Impact takes a look at some of the most terrible films of the last two decades… Batman and Robin (1997) You don’t get a considered ‘the death of a franchise’ without being really, really bad. Not only...
  • 87th Academy Awards – Predictions

    With only days to go before the 87th Academy Awards, Impact Film & TV weighs in on our predicted outcome for the most anticipated categories to take place in the ceremony on Sunday. Best Visual Effects Nominees: Captain America: The Winter Soldier Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Guardians of...