• “Copied, Lampooned And Fondly Rewatched”- Film Review: Top Gun And Top Gun: Maverick

    Top Gun is a classic blockbuster, released in 1986 to great acclaim. Recently, cinemas welcomed a long-awaited sequel, entitled Top Gun: Maverick. The two films are memorable in their own ways, and this prompted Cineworld to recently release a double-showing of both. Gareth David attended this double-dose of Tom...
  • “Sunsets And Fighter Jets”- Film Review: Top Gun: Maverick

    36 years after the first Top Gun movie was released, a new sequal has arrived: Top Gun: Maverick. It was released in cinemas on 27th May 2022, and has a lot to live up to, given the fame of its predecessor. Daniel Evans reviews....
  • The Greatest Stars of the Silver Screen – An Impact Scrapbook

    When somebody says “Movie-star” what do you think of? The glamorous celebrity? Or perhaps the hard-working thespian? Here at IMPACT we’ve asked our writers the very same question. And this is what they’ve come up with. Keanu Reeves: Keanu Reeves. That’s all I have to say really. But here...
  • 5 People Who Could Play The Next Jack Reacher

    This year it was announced that Tom Cruise would be stepping down from his role as Lee Child’s most famous creation, the ex-military man Jack Reacher,  a 6’5″ titan, built like a brick wall, and standing head and shoulders above Cruise’s comparatively smaller 5ft 7 frame. With a TV...
  • Temporary Home: Rome and Sicily

    With the primary intention to tick some goals off the bucket list, I could not have been more thrilled when I found out that our annual 12 day family holiday would be taking place in Italy – one of my favourite European countries. Two holidays in one was definitely...
  • 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...
  • Movie Musings…

    Following the epic-scale feature as seen in the last issue (#236) of IMPACT, our writers bring you an even larger group of even more varied cinematic cogitations, from the history of the blockbuster to far reaches of film history with the first animated feature and German Expressionism. Below are the clickable...