Tom Hemingway

Made it all the way to Tulsa, Oklahoma and excited to be presenting a paper tomorrow at the World of Bob Dylan 2025 conference!

This is going to be SO good for my plants.

It’s raining

Absolutely! After travelling up and down the country for the last 15 years, it’ll be nice to go to a gig that’s only 10 minutes away.

Talkin’ CV3 Binley Mega Chippy Blues

Had a great time presenting at the #CST conference yesterday, looking at the rise of live broadcasts on streaming platforms. Saw so many great papers!

Whenever there’s a guy you’ve never seen in your life getting a little too much screen time in a Mission Impossible movie, you just KNOW it’s Tom Cruise in a mask.

Jose Arroyo in Conversation with James Taylor on ….THE SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER: ADAPTATION, STYLE AND MEANING Just as the Superhero film loses centrality in the culture there comes a book that is not only a brilliant accounting of the various strategies of adaptations the mode engages with but also offers …

A new podcast conversation between Jose Arroyo and James Taylor, focusing on James’ new book, ‘The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning’. Listen here: notesonfilm1.com/2025/06/06/j...

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I was initially indifferent towards it but it slowly turned into something unexpected and now it’s over I really want more. Colman Domingo is a stand-out and it was wonderful to see Alan Alda in a cameo.

Binged all of Netflix’s The Four Seasons. Feels like a welcome throwback to their earliest original programmes where a lot of money is spent sending famous stars to exotic locations.

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In a crazy but completely on-brand turn of events, I’ll be presenting at the 2025 World of Dylan conference in Tulsa, OK. My paper is titled - ‘Stare into the vacuum of his eyes’ - Looking at Bob Dylan and the reaction shot in A Complete Unknown.

Thrilled to be accepted and explore the archives!

Mid 00s was a great time for weird DVD cover art where they didn’t just copy the poster but cooked up something like this. Please show me your fave weird dvd art.

I hit a few shots as bad as McIlroy when I played 9 holes on Friday. Maybe this means I could one day also win the Masters.

You will see the most guys who look like other guys in the queue for Record Store Day. Is that Greg from The White Lotus? Is that Brett Goldstein? No it isn’t. It’s just guys.

It’s the masters baby ⛳️ ⛳️ ⛳️

What if I told you in 2006 that these three were dominating the media landscape, 20 years on?

Loved this when it came out but it seemed to be the point when a lot of people turned on Malick. Will always take more To The Wonder though.

We’re so back

Today sees the digital publication of James C. Taylor’s monograph, ‘The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning’

You may already be able to access via university affiliation at the following link: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.25...

Physical copies will be available in 2 weeks.

Huge congratulations to Chris O’Rourke for winning the Best Article Award at BAFTSS 2025!

Presenting as part of the Comedic Aesthetics panel at #BAFTSS2025 tomorrow! My paper is called ‘It’s Not TV, It’s A24’ and will be looking at how A24 have positioned themselves as a producer of televised stand-up comedy and the ways in which this reinforces their strong brand identity.

I thought this was Bono

Breaking and Making the Fourth Wall on YouTube: Direct Address and Audiovisual Narration in Online Video Published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Ahead of Print, 2025)

James MacDowell’s new article, ‘Breaking (and making) the Fourth Wall on YouTube’ is now published (and is open access) in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Read below:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Also, it stays super weird and funny. As serious as it gets, I must have laughed more than I have the entire season. Really satisfying tv, can’t believe Ben Stiller is cooking this hard.

Severance S2:E10 is kind of a perfect finale right? Stakes are raised to new highs, answers many (but not all) questions, introduces ideas which complicates things for the future but also wraps things up to a degree that I’d be fine if it ended there for good.

Staying up late tonight to watch Netflix’s first attempt at a live late-night talk show. I can’t see myself making this commitment every week but feel like the inaugural effort deserves my attention, especially seeing as I’ll be discussing the topic later this year at the CST conference!

Took this pic 5 years ago today

Jesus Christ, my body is rotting away

Referring to ‘my wife’ pre-2006 was good harmless fun, but it’s impossible to do in today’s world without receiving accusations of borat.