• Immediate reactions to Corbyn’s victory

    The recent election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party has sparked one of the largest scale political debates we’ve seen all summer. Across the social media battle ground, shots have been fired, quite literally, left, right and center. Impact Comment reviews the oh so wide ranging opinions...
  • Anti-Advent Calendar #8

    Christmas. We’re a week into December and we’re already sick of it. Here at Impact Film & TV, we’re continuing with our list. It’s day eight and we’re taking a trip to a mythical land straight out of Disney. If Disney made porn… Walerian Borowczyk’s soft-core masterpiece La Bête is a film...
  • Review – Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead @ Mayhem Film Festival

    Picking up where its cabin-in-the-woods style predecessor left off, Dead Snow 2’s Martin is in the midst of successfully escaping from a horde of Nazi zombies. His friends have not been so lucky, not least his girlfriend Hanna who died from an axe wound administered by Martin himself. Now,...
  • Review – Mercian Mystery X 2

    WARNING: Contains descriptions of depraved and perverted acts, read at own risk. A series of bad decisions recently led me to be sitting in the tiny upstairs room of a city-centre pub, watching a fuzzy black and white scene of a girl getting raped by a gun. I, along...
  • It isn’t the SU’s place to hold moralising referendums

    Direct Democracy is often held up as the pinnacle of representative decision-making. If we live in a society where everybody’s voice counts, then we’re meant to have it truly made. The University of Nottingham’s Student Union (UoN SU) seems to have taken this on board, holding referendums on issues...