Impact Film

The recent flux of truly weird and challenging British cinema in the last year or two is heartwarming. Independent films like Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin and Richard Ayoade’s The Double have left audiences with characters and images unlike anything an average blockbuster could even dream of, and with...

Is there any better way to draw interest in a film than to have it banned? Let’s face it, we all love a bit of forbidden fruit from time to time. But is it right that government censors have the power to control the flow of information? Placing limitations...

The first trailer for action-comedy, Pixels, pits Adam Sandler against an onslaught of alien invaders. Why? Well, as explained in the trailer, in 1982 NASA sent a time capsule into space containing classic video games. Donkey-Kong, Pac-Man, and Space Invaders are just some of the beloved characters that an...

One mark of a good film is if it can overcome the language barrier and entertain people of any nationality. Oscar-nominated Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes) achieves this and delivers one of the best foreign language experiences out there. Wild Tales consists of six separate stories, all with a constant...

‘Five films and only 26 years old!’, ‘The new Orson Welles!’, ‘Bad boy queer icon!’ French-Canadian filmmaker and actor Xavier Dolan might be sick to death of these labels, but the title of enfant terrible is set to follow him around for the rest of his life. A child...

“I am no prophet – and here’s no great matter.” When reading or hearing the premise for a film it is sometimes impossible to not immediately think of another. It Follows is about a killer curse which will relentlessly hunt down its victims until they “pass it on” by...

Nowhere Boy follows an adolescent John Lennon as he meets Paul McCartney and forms The Quarrymen. Jersey Boys tells the tale of the rise and fall of The Four Seasons. Love & Mercy is similarly nostalgic, demonstrating the film industry’s tendency to turn to the past for ideas. In...