Impact Film & TV

The trailer for Magic Mike XXL is exactly what one would expect from a film that centres around the world of male stripping: shirtless men frolicking around, a bit of grinding here and there and a horde of screaming women lapping it all up, stacks of dollar bills at...

It’s been 36 years since renowned Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker was released, and it is as relevant today as it has ever been before. The film’s screenplay was heavily influenced by Roadside Picnic, written by science fiction authors and brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.  In true Tarkovsky style,...

What better way to make a debut as a feature film director and scriptwriter than to make a dark magic realist thriller? If anyone can be awarded the liberty to experiment with such a niche genre on their first attempt, it’s Ryan Gosling. Lost River is about a single mother,...

As the famous idiom goes, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”, and nowhere is this phrase is more visible than in the landfill sites on the outskirts of megacities in developing countries. Here, the dump is a hive of activity and home to thousands who working through the mountains...

Whenever the metropolitan madness reaches its peak with traffic congestion, the words “rush hour” activate a little impulse in the back of one’s mind that forces us to reminisce about the 1998 film, Rush Hour. The worldwide appeal around the film is immense, as it launched Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker’s careers as the funniest...

The latest comedy from James Franco, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, riffs on an assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, with the CIA learning of his nuclear building programmes and hiring two talk show journalists to do the job under the facade of an interview. The Interview...

Since 2011, the decision to adapt George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire onto the small screen has enabled Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss to augment the astounding attention to detail necessary to faithfully bring the world of Westeros to...