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Forecasting the Oscars 2012

This Sunday, the 84th Academy Awards, known as the ‘Oscars’, will take place at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles to commemorate the best films of 2011. This year’s host will be Billy Crystal, who has presented the awards on eight previous occasions and is returning for the first time since…

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Wednesday 22nd February 2012

Oscars 2012 – The Snubs

The biggest night in Hollywood is just around the corner and, once again, the Academy has managed to baffle film buffs all over the world with some unusual omissions from its nominations. Here is a look at some of the biggest snubs at this year’s Oscars. Best Picture…

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Wednesday 22nd February 2012

Foreign Filmmaking Legends – Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa is my favourite filmmaker in history, not only for his determined cinematic vision, but for the character permeated throughout every one of his films. Outside of Anime and Godzilla (1954), Kurosawa’s films are the most recognised contribution to Japanese cinema. Starting his career as an assistant…

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Tuesday 21st February 2012

Review – House of Tolerance

Casting himself as director, producer, writer and composer, Bertrand Bonello makes a wise choice in House of Tolerance; the story of a Parisian brothel, and the women that inhabit it, at the end of the 19th century. His use of light and shadow is remarkable and, as the…

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Sunday 19th February 2012

Review – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a film surrounded with both excitement and disappointment, seems to have come from nowhere. Nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars this year and subsequently slammed by major critics (who insist on switching the words ‘loud’ and ‘close’, to other, more demeaning adjectives),…

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Friday 17th February 2012

Cinebar @ Broadway Cinema

Recently, Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema has started a new type of screen-experience – Cinebar. In these special screenings you can sit in the bar and watch a movie, surrounded by crisps, drinks and good-natured chatter. So, how does it work? Is the drunken nattering of the audience entertaining or…

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Thursday 16th February 2012

Review – Bombay Beach

As soon as I walked out of the cinema the images of Bombay Beach and its inhabitants were flashing in my mind. Alma Har’el has truly captured the essence of a remote American backwater, in the heart of the Californian desert. Rusty old boats strewn on the shoreline,…

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Thursday 16th February 2012

BAFTA Film Awards 2012 – Reaction

On Sunday the 65th annual BAFTA Film Awards were held at the Royal Opera House in London. Here, Impact gives you the lowdown on the night’s highs and lows… Undoubtedly the big success story of the evening was The Artist, which went home with a very healthy seven…

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Thursday 16th February 2012

Staff Scrapbook: TV Guilty Pleasures

 Diagnosis Murder The diagnosis? Murder. In terms of daytime television nothing comes closer to meeting a variety of audience expectations than the BBC’s staple part mystery, part medical and part crime drama. The show revolves around Dr. Mark Sloan, portrayed by the ever-endearing Dick Van Dyke, a medical…

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Wednesday 15th February 2012

Review – The Grey

Liam Neeson. Usually those two words are enough to make any action film worth watching, however, there’s only so much one man can do in a film that is lacking in many areas. Liam Neeson plays Ottway, a wolf killer who protects oil workers from ambitious wolves and…

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