• Scrapbook – Ten Years On…

    In honour of the University of Nottingham’s very own NSTV celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, Impact are looking back at what else first appeared in 2007. We’ve compiled a list of ten things that are now ten years old, so get ready for a jump back into pop...
  • 2016: Hot Or Not – Star Trek Beyond

    Let’s wave goodbye to 2015! Good times, bad times we’ve had them all – but you know what they say, as one door closes, another one opens. Over the coming month we’ll be bringing you a snapshot of everything 2016 has to offer – the good, the bad and the ugly. Hold...
  • Film Review – Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

    Bearing in mind this new release is the fifth instalment in the series, it would be easy to think that the franchise should have fizzled out by now, ready to be put down like a dog that has lived its life to the fullest. However, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation...
  • Film Review – Man Up

    Oddly titled, Man Up tells the story of Nancy (Lake Bell), a singleton who’s mistaken for stranger Jack’s (Simon Pegg) blind date Jessica, and has no initial intention of revealing her actual identity. High-concept? In parts, though writer Tess Morris and director Ben Palmer do manage to dissolve some...
  • Trailer Watch – Absolutely Anything

    “I can make things happen, all I have to do is wave my hand”. Absolutely Anything is an upcoming sci-fi comedy about a group of extra-terrestrials, played by the Monty Python crew, who plan on destroying the Earth unless one human being can use absolute power for good. But who will they choose?...
  • Trailer Watch – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

    Tom Cruise returns for a fifth outing as IMF super spy Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. As first trailers go, this one is pretty excellent. Broken down into almost three miniature trailers each of around a minute in length, the first introduces a new member of the...
  • Review – The Boxtrolls

    Beneath the streets of Cheesebridge, there lives a disgusting band of evil trolls that come out at night to steal and eat the children of the town – or so Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) would have the populace believe. The truth is that trolls do live in the sewers...