Tom Hemingway Pro

Teaching Fellow in Film & Television Studies at the University of Warwick

Favorite films

  • Boyhood
  • The Shining
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Funny People

All
  • Mission: Impossible III

    ★★★

  • Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band

  • Nonnas

    ★★★

  • The ant²

    ★★★½

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Mission: Impossible III

2006

★★★ Rewatched

Saw an advance screening of this back in 2006 and it blew my mind. I distinctly telling my friends at school how the new Mission Impossible movie was amazing and was going to be the film of the summer. JJ really had us all in a chokehold in the mid-2000s.

Anyway, 19 years later, it’s basically fine. The Rome sequence is brilliant and Phillip Seymour Hoffman steals every scene he’s in (as always). But I was surprised how so much of this is dull and ugly. The style of the action scenes reminded a lot of Die Hard 4, but even that film is better.

Nonnas

2025

★★★ Watched

100% going to this restaurant. Respect to all the nonnas (and Linda Cardellini). Much disrespect to Trump apologist Vince Vaughn.

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Pete Davidson: Turbo Fonzarelli

2024

3

Why is this shot like Raging Bull?

Awake

2021

★★ Watched

Unbearably flat. Every character should watch this movie and they’d fall asleep just fine.