Impact Film & TV

Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne’s four-part Netflix mini-series Adolescence tells the harrowing story of 13-year-old, Jamie (Owen Cooper), who shockingly takes the life of a girl at his school. Indeed, the drama will receive critical acclaim due to its stellar acting performances and impressive one-shot takes, yet the messaging...

Katie Barr Teen dramas, drugs, and the fine line between storytelling and glorification  It’s 11pm on a school night, you’re elbow-deep in a binge-watching spiral. Rue from Euphoria is back at it, popping pills in slow motion, bathed in neon lights and Labrinth’s haunting soundtrack sets the mood. It...

My immediate impression of Robert Egger’s 2024 film was one of captivation – cinematography that recreated a 19th-century Germany immaculately, a star-studded cast and a vampiric plot had all the makings of a film I should have thoroughly enjoyed but by the time the credits rolled an hour and...

As the leaves start to turn orange and litter the ground, and the days get shorter and colder, it’s time to admit that summer is officially over…and the spooky season has arrived! With the changing of the seasons, as creatures of habit, we return to our favourite movies to...

Calista Kiloh  Ridley Scott takes audiences back to Ancient Rome with the highly anticipated sequel to his 2000 hit Gladiator. Set around 20 years after the events of the first film, Gladiator II is a sensory feat meant to be seen in theatres. The beating realness of David Scarpa’s...

Whether you are just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her; or delivering the ‘I like you’ speech ‘just the way you are’, there are of course fundamental ingredients which together create the best romantic comedies of all time.  Potential ingredients include but...

The third instalment of the “Princess Diaries” has been confirmed to return.  Following a popular pattern, this decade of increasing production of sequels/remakes to classic and fan favourites are being released. Are films recently relying too much on our nostalgia, how far is this going to go and would...