Joseph Kulman

From Gandhi to Selma, Chaplin to The Wolf of Wall Street and Catch Me If You Can to Wild, biographical films, or biopics, have experienced a surge of interest in cinema over the last few decades. Expanding our printed Scrapbook on heroism in biopics featured in our 235th issue, our writers journey through a selection of notable biographical pictures over...

Image credit: Andres Moreno via Flickr Following our crossover with Music in Issue 234, Impact takes a further look at some of our favourite soundtracks and scores in our latest scrapbook… The Nightmare Before Christmas If there is one thing that screams Christmas to me, it’s this: Henry Selick’s...

Warning: Spoilers follow! So after twelve gruelling weeks of fat daddies and flat skeletons, Lord Sugar has found his tenth Apprentice, or rather, business partner – Mark Wright. Yes, the cocksure Aussie pipped Bianca Miller to the post to secure a £250,000 investment for his business ‘Climb Online’ (NOT ‘Clim Bonline’,...

Illmatic (1994) is an album that needs no introduction for anyone even mildly acquainted with the world of hip hop. The debut LP from New York native Nasir “Nas” Jones, the record is a raw account of life in Queens, told through a perfect blend of poetic lyrics and experimental beats....

Spoiler Warning So finally, after the warm-up that was The Great British Bake Off, the true king of British reality TV has returned for 2014! Lord Sugar is back (alongside trusted aides Nick and Margar- sorry, Nick and Karen) to find an entrepreneur to go into business with. As...

The usually credible Patrick Wilson (Watchmen, Young Adult) looks to be heading in the direction of a career low in the trailer for Home Sweet Hell. Starring alongside Forbes’ most overpaid actress 2013, Katherine Heigl, Wilson plays Don Champagne, a furniture salesman who is forced to murder his co-worker/mistress...

Life is an occasion. Rise to it. After a decade long hiatus following the sleeper success of his directorial debut Garden State (2004) Zach Braff finally returns, with a drama/comedy about a dysfunctional family coming together in the face of terminal cancer. Certainly this is well-trodden ground cinematically, and...