Impact Film & TV

Image credit: ‘Cliff’ via Flickr In the wake of last week’s Oscars, Alex takes a look at the big winner and its closest competitor; what made them both worthy, whether they will last, and the big question – which one deserved the little golden men the most? So Birdman...

Warning: Series 1 spoilers follow! “Do you find the defendant Joseph Michael Miller, guilty or not guilty?” On Monday 23rd February at 9pm, this very question, that has kept viewers on the edge of their seats for the second series of the ITV mystery crime drama Broadchurch, was finally answered. The finale brought an...

Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of takes fans on a roller coaster ride with one of the world’s best-selling boy bands of all time, and we experience the highs and lows of each member’s journey from boyhood to manhood. The film focuses on the group’s 20th year...

Impact caught up with Israeli director Navot Papushado, one half of the team behind Israel’s first horror film Rabies, and Big Bad Wolves which Quentin Tarantino called his favourite film of 2013. Warning: Contains spoilers for Big Bad Wolves. Your debut feature Rabies is the first horror film to come out of Israel, why did...

Ira Sachs’s new film about love, life, and family stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as couple Ben and George. After finally being able to marry, George (Molina) is fired from his post as a music teacher at a Catholic school. Ben (Lithgow) is a retired artist and his...

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...

Released at a pivotal time of change in Korean history (1961), it is no surprise that Yoo Hyun-Mok’s Obaltan (The Aimless Bullet) touches upon so many divisive issues that the country was experiencing at the time. A film of unquestionable depth and tragedy, it focuses in on one particular...