Jake Leonard

Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams head an all-star cast in Tom McCarthy’s fact-based drama. The plot follows a group of tenacious reporters, for the Boston Globe newspaper, as they investigate the cover-up of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the area. What starts as a simple (albeit...

Impact Film & TV sent contributor Jake Leonard, to London for the press conference regarding the film, with select questions being used for this article. For the review of the film click here. Speakers: Michael Keaton (who plays Walter ‘Robby’ Robinson), Mark Ruffalo (playing Mike Rezendes), Tom McCarthy (director and co-writer),...

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...

German-born director Dietrich Brüggemann’s fourth feature, Stations of the Cross, is currently on limited release nationwide. Impact Film & TV spoke to Brüggemann about filming such an unusual structure, casting the brilliant Lea Van Acken and shocking mothers… (Contains Mild Spoilers) How would you describe the film? It’s hard to say. I...

Steve James helms this wonderful documentary about the life and death of the great film critic Roger Ebert. With a dexterity and a frankness becoming of the man himself, James charts Ebert’s time as a grizzled newspaper editor in Chicago, his accidental introduction to the career that would define...

Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and the late James Gandolfini star in this New York-based neo-noir from director Michael R. Roksam. Cousin Marv (Gandolfini) is the caretaker of a drop bar (used to launder money for the mob), having been forced out of ownership by Chechen gangsters. Bob (Hardy) tends...

In the first of a series of interviews with the cast and production teams of Nottingham New Theatre’s 2014 Autumn Season, Impact Arts talks to Jake Leonard and Harriet Lowe, director and producer of this week’s show, ‘Doubt’ by John Patrick Shanley. Firstly, what is ‘Doubt’ about? Jake: The...