Impact Film & TV

“When you have insomnia you’re never really asleep, and you’re never really awake.” If that sounds overfamiliar, you’re either living in a perpetual state of sleep deprivation, or you’ve just already seen Fight Club before. If the former, not the latter is true, then being a member of Fight...

Upon first watching the trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s newest film, Inherent Vice, viewers can be excused for feeling confused.   Based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel of the same name, the audience is introduced to Larry Sportello, known as “Doc” (Joaquin Phoenix), a Private Detective commissioned by his ex (Katherine...

Following Disney Pixar’s most recent release Monsters University, comes the teaser trailer for their newest feature film, Inside Out. The film will follow the life of a young girl, Riley Anderson, and her move to San Francisco, though there will be no talking toys and closeted monsters in Pixar’s...

Bryan Mills is back, along with his ‘particular set of skills’, for one last time as the Taken franchise comes to a close. Framed for the murder of his wife, the trailer shows Mills (Liam Neeson) on the run from the police whilst hunting for his wife’s killers and...

Adjusting to university can be a somewhat sticky situation, as you may want to grip to all you’ve ever known whilst new, sometimes exciting experiences can seem to be peeling you in a different direction. In Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker feels your student-related angst, as he attempts to spin...

Beneath the streets of Cheesebridge, there lives a disgusting band of evil trolls that come out at night to steal and eat the children of the town – or so Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) would have the populace believe. The truth is that trolls do live in the sewers...

Impact Film & TV talks to Watergate Cinematek, the latest of Nottingham’s film clubs which revved into life with an Independence Day double bill (reviewed here), and has since screened The Conformist as part of this month’s Scalarama festival. We spoke to freelance film critic and author of The Betamax Revolt...