• Film Review – Love Is Strange

    Ira Sachs’s new film about love, life, and family stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as couple Ben and George. After finally being able to marry, George (Molina) is fired from his post as a music teacher at a Catholic school. Ben (Lithgow) is a retired artist and his...
  • Scrapbook – Terrible Movies

    Inspired in part by a certain Valentine’s Day release (more on which later), Impact takes a look at some of the most terrible films of the last two decades… Batman and Robin (1997) You don’t get a considered ‘the death of a franchise’ without being really, really bad. Not only...
  • Around the World in 80 Films #3

    Released at a pivotal time of change in Korean history (1961), it is no surprise that Yoo Hyun-Mok’s Obaltan (The Aimless Bullet) touches upon so many divisive issues that the country was experiencing at the time. A film of unquestionable depth and tragedy, it focuses in on one particular...
  • TV Review – Parks and Recreation, Season 7

    Leslie Knope will no longer be gracing our screens with valuable knowledge regarding the state of Indiana’s Parks and Recreation policies. Season 7 was rushed out by NBC by showing two episodes a week, consequently halving the weeks the show was on air. Many saw this as an insult yet the...
  • TV Review – Spiral, Series 5

    The phrase ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave’ springs immediately to mind when describing the fifth series of the fantastic French import Spiral (Engrenages), which documents the efforts of an embattled Parisian police team and the lawyers of the Palais de Justice as they attempt to solve various...
  • “How Have You Never Seen…Pulp Fiction?”

    Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction has become one of the most iconic films of our time; such a revolutionary and unparalleled pastiche that it’s difficult to believe I have somehow managed to avoid it all these years. There are references to this film’s most memorable scenes everywhere in popular culture,...
  • Film Review – The Wedding Ringer

    The Wedding Ringer stars Kevin Hart as Jimmy Callahan, the best man money can buy. When groom-to-be Doug Harris (Josh Gad) finds himself without a best man he calls in Jimmy to provide his unconventional service. With only two weeks to go before his marriage to Gretchen (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting),...