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Dr Tom Hemingway gives his view on the 2025 Oscar nominations

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:39:23 GMT

Dr. Tom Hemingway, Teaching Fellow in Film and Television Studies at The University of Warwick gives his view on this year’s Oscar nominations.

Dr Tom Hemingway comments on the Star Wars franchise

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:38:00 GMT

Time has been kind to The Phantom Menace. This week’s 25th anniversary re-release of the 1999 Star Wars film demonstrates how perceptions around a film can change over time.

Tom Hemingway discusses Oscar nominations

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:15:02 GMT

The big story from this morning’s Oscar nominations is the dual snub of Barbie’s Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig for Best Actress and Best Director respectively.

Tom Hemingway comments on BAFTA nominations

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:31:00 GMT

This year’s BAFTA film nominations feature the usual mixture of expected nods and surprising snubs.

Dr Julie Labalzo-Wright comments on the upcoming Golden Globe Awards

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:20:00 GMT

Once the known as the awards show where film and television stars partied in a hotel banquet room, the Golden Globes had fallen on hard times in the last few years.

Dr Alice Pember on box office success for Barbie and first female director

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:58:00 GMT

The phenomenal box office success of Greta Gerwig's big screen deconstruction of ‘Barbie world’ gender norms is by no means an incontrovertible ‘win’ for feminism.

Age ratings for Netflix content may see other streaming services follow suit: Tom Hemingway comments

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 15:20:00 GMT

Netflix has announced that it will include age ratings on all its content, following the success of a trial with the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). Tom Hemingway from the Department of Film and Television Studies gives his view on the impact this will make for viewers and for streaming services.

Expert comment on the work of Richard Donner

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:37:41 GMT

Dr James Taylor from Warwick's Department of Film and Television comments on the work of Richard Donner, the director whose work included Superman and The Goonies.

Regulating streaming giants could create "homogenised television landscape"

Wed, 23 Jun 2021 12:28:00 GMT

The UK government has proposed tighter regulations for television streaming giants such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+. Ministers also today announced that there will be a consultation into whether to privatise Channel 4.

Tom Hemingway, from Warwick's Department of Film and Television Studies, offers his expert view.

BBC 4's 'valuable contribution ' to arts programming - expert comment

Thu, 14 May 2020 15:20:58 GMT

With several media outlets reporting that there are allegedly plans to close BBC Four, sparking a social media campaign in support of the channel, PhD Candidate and Associate Tutor in the Department of Film and Television Studies Leanne Weston comments on its impact.