• “Imagery Veiled In Shadows, Superb Scriptwriting”- Film Review: Coraline

    13 years ago, Henry Selick gave children everywhere a film that would certainly stay with them for a long time. Now, Coraline once again illuminates the screen with its bewitching and perplexingly comforting visuals for a Halloween reshowing at Cineworld. Eve Williams Reviews. ...
  • Scrapbook – Best/Worst Mothers

    It’s Mothers’ Day, and what better way to spend it than delving into film’s extensive list of great – and not so great – mums. Whether they’re evil, delightful or just plain incompetent, there’s no doubting, the bond between mother and child is a unique one. Elastagirl/Helen Parr –...
  • Don’t Make Me Watch – Revisiting Childhood Nightmares

    Childhood fears can be the fears that stay with us for life. We’ve all got those films that send us cowering, those TV programmes that give us the shivers. The Impact Film & TV team delve into their childhoods and explain which childhood fears still gives them the creeps....
  • 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...