• Film Review – Pitch Perfect 2

    Hollywood has an enduring love affair with American educational institutions. It romanticises all manner of sporting forwards and backwards, pays tribute to the myriad of social sects – helpfully arranged into frats and sororities – and now lavishes love on the (unnervingly) ebullient musical troupe. University acapella group the...
  • Film Review – Unfriended

    Found footage has fast become a horror cliché. What was once a clever plot device has been misused on many occasions, the originality lost. Unfriended, however, gets rid of the camcorder, replacing it with something that almost all of us are very familiar with: Skype. What follows is an...
  • Film Review – A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

    Bad City. A place so appropriately named it must only house dealers, prostitutes and those too poor to escape. The law enforcement obviously did a long time ago, ’cause there’s a ruddy huge ditch full of steadily increasing corpses just on your left as you drive in. Nobody’s cleaning that...
  • Film Review – Top Five

    Chris Rock shows off his inescapable charisma with his portrayal of Andre Allen, a world famous comedian trying to be taken seriously as an actor. With Andre’s upcoming marriage to reality star Erica Long (Gabrielle Union) fast approaching, he comes across Chelsea Brown (Rosario Dawson), a reporter with a lot to ask....
  • Film Review – The Age of Adaline

    Director Lee Toland Krieger’s latest picture has an interesting premise: a woman trapped at the age of 27 cursed with immortality, a goldmine for stories you’d think… but apparently not. The Age of Adaline trips at the first hurdle, only finding its footing half way through its two hour run...
  • Film Review – Spooks: The Greater Good

    Spooks: The Greater Good is a big screen revival of a small screen success. The BBC television series from which it continues ended in 2011 after a nine year run. Now resuming the plot in 2015, the film offers multiple stories revolving around Harry Pearce’s (Peter Firth) squad of MI5...
  • “How Have You Never Seen…The Usual Suspects?”

    “Did you see it coming?” I was asked by an Impact colleague; no it was shocking, but less surprising is that at number 23 on IMDb’s Top 250, The Usual Suspects (1995) is a fan favourite and considered one of the best crime films to date. Not knowing a lot about the...