Impact Film & TV

Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if your mother cut off your penis in a fit of jealous rage? Director Kim Ki-duk has, and he’s made it into a film called Moebius for us to enjoy. It’s provocative, to say the least. Aware of her...

The Purge: Anarchy finds us back in the near-future where the US government has sanctioned annual ‘purges’: 24 hours where all crime (including murder) is legal and no emergency services are available. And this time around, director James DeMonaco takes us out on to the streets, deep into the heart of the violence....

The tenth instalment in their Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy is a momentous accomplishment for Marvel Studios’ perpetually expanding franchise. This is more so due to the film’s ambition to adapt a cosmic comic that is distant and unique from previous superhero films, rather than the film’s actual efficacy....

The anthology film, a format favoured especially by the horror genre, seems bound by two rules: to consist of slight or superficial stories, and to be undone by one weak story. Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin breaks the first rule and stumbles with the second. It doesn’t so...