Dave Hemming
@davehemming.bsky.social
I write words. I usually cross them out later. Poet and seahorse whisperer, haiku. Songwriter with @thenightherons.bsky.social
January 26, 2026 at 1:01 PM
January 23, 2026 at 1:53 PM
12 films I watched in 2025 that stayed with me
Dream Scenario: Nicholas Cage finds out being the man of everyone’s dreams isn’t all that in this cringy comic horror.
Dream Scenario: Nicholas Cage finds out being the man of everyone’s dreams isn’t all that in this cringy comic horror.
January 4, 2026 at 11:18 PM
12 films I watched in 2025 that stayed with me
Dream Scenario: Nicholas Cage finds out being the man of everyone’s dreams isn’t all that in this cringy comic horror.
Dream Scenario: Nicholas Cage finds out being the man of everyone’s dreams isn’t all that in this cringy comic horror.
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me
Anora: Brilliantly realised characters as Anora’s marriage to a Russian oligarch is challenged by his family - hilarious and moving.
#movies #2025
Anora: Brilliantly realised characters as Anora’s marriage to a Russian oligarch is challenged by his family - hilarious and moving.
#movies #2025
January 2, 2026 at 8:56 AM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me
Anora: Brilliantly realised characters as Anora’s marriage to a Russian oligarch is challenged by his family - hilarious and moving.
#movies #2025
Anora: Brilliantly realised characters as Anora’s marriage to a Russian oligarch is challenged by his family - hilarious and moving.
#movies #2025
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me
Death Of England: Delroy: Part of the revival of the National Theatre trilogy with Paapa Essiedu - stunning writing and live performance.
Death Of England: Delroy: Part of the revival of the National Theatre trilogy with Paapa Essiedu - stunning writing and live performance.
December 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me
Death Of England: Delroy: Part of the revival of the National Theatre trilogy with Paapa Essiedu - stunning writing and live performance.
Death Of England: Delroy: Part of the revival of the National Theatre trilogy with Paapa Essiedu - stunning writing and live performance.
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me.
A real pain: Jesse Eisenberg’s movie, with him and Kieran Cullkin as David and Benji, awkward cousins visiting a concentration camp in Poland is understated, funny, moving and subtle about family relationships.
#movies #2025
A real pain: Jesse Eisenberg’s movie, with him and Kieran Cullkin as David and Benji, awkward cousins visiting a concentration camp in Poland is understated, funny, moving and subtle about family relationships.
#movies #2025
December 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me.
A real pain: Jesse Eisenberg’s movie, with him and Kieran Cullkin as David and Benji, awkward cousins visiting a concentration camp in Poland is understated, funny, moving and subtle about family relationships.
#movies #2025
A real pain: Jesse Eisenberg’s movie, with him and Kieran Cullkin as David and Benji, awkward cousins visiting a concentration camp in Poland is understated, funny, moving and subtle about family relationships.
#movies #2025
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me
For A grim country-tinged story of a lottery winner turned motel-living alcoholic but brought to vivid life by Andrea Risborough’s stellar performance as Leslie and Marc Maron’s humanity against his better judgement as Sweeney.
#movies #2025
For A grim country-tinged story of a lottery winner turned motel-living alcoholic but brought to vivid life by Andrea Risborough’s stellar performance as Leslie and Marc Maron’s humanity against his better judgement as Sweeney.
#movies #2025
December 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me
For A grim country-tinged story of a lottery winner turned motel-living alcoholic but brought to vivid life by Andrea Risborough’s stellar performance as Leslie and Marc Maron’s humanity against his better judgement as Sweeney.
#movies #2025
For A grim country-tinged story of a lottery winner turned motel-living alcoholic but brought to vivid life by Andrea Risborough’s stellar performance as Leslie and Marc Maron’s humanity against his better judgement as Sweeney.
#movies #2025
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me:
The Hand Of God: coming of age in Naples in the era of Maradona with an eccentric family - very funny and at times tragic.
#movies #2025
The Hand Of God: coming of age in Naples in the era of Maradona with an eccentric family - very funny and at times tragic.
#movies #2025
December 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me:
The Hand Of God: coming of age in Naples in the era of Maradona with an eccentric family - very funny and at times tragic.
#movies #2025
The Hand Of God: coming of age in Naples in the era of Maradona with an eccentric family - very funny and at times tragic.
#movies #2025
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me
Better Man: the life story of Robbie Williams portrayed as a chimp doesn’t sound a promising prospect, but it really works in this tale of the troubled star.
#movies #2025
Better Man: the life story of Robbie Williams portrayed as a chimp doesn’t sound a promising prospect, but it really works in this tale of the troubled star.
#movies #2025
December 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me
Better Man: the life story of Robbie Williams portrayed as a chimp doesn’t sound a promising prospect, but it really works in this tale of the troubled star.
#movies #2025
Better Man: the life story of Robbie Williams portrayed as a chimp doesn’t sound a promising prospect, but it really works in this tale of the troubled star.
#movies #2025
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me:
Will & Harper: a road trip that explores friendship and the challenges of transition with gentle humour.
#movies #2025
Will & Harper: a road trip that explores friendship and the challenges of transition with gentle humour.
#movies #2025
December 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me:
Will & Harper: a road trip that explores friendship and the challenges of transition with gentle humour.
#movies #2025
Will & Harper: a road trip that explores friendship and the challenges of transition with gentle humour.
#movies #2025
December 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me
The Extraordinary Miss Flower: is an extraordinary biographical epistolary musical project - and lucky enough to see Emiliana Torrini singing some of the letters from the film at Green Man festival
#movies #2025
The Extraordinary Miss Flower: is an extraordinary biographical epistolary musical project - and lucky enough to see Emiliana Torrini singing some of the letters from the film at Green Man festival
#movies #2025
December 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me
The Extraordinary Miss Flower: is an extraordinary biographical epistolary musical project - and lucky enough to see Emiliana Torrini singing some of the letters from the film at Green Man festival
#movies #2025
The Extraordinary Miss Flower: is an extraordinary biographical epistolary musical project - and lucky enough to see Emiliana Torrini singing some of the letters from the film at Green Man festival
#movies #2025
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me
Good One: Sam goes hiking with her dad and friend - a kind of coming of age movie in which the flaws of the men are revealed, with subtlety and humour
Good One: Sam goes hiking with her dad and friend - a kind of coming of age movie in which the flaws of the men are revealed, with subtlety and humour
December 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
12 films I saw in 2025 that stayed with me
Good One: Sam goes hiking with her dad and friend - a kind of coming of age movie in which the flaws of the men are revealed, with subtlety and humour
Good One: Sam goes hiking with her dad and friend - a kind of coming of age movie in which the flaws of the men are revealed, with subtlety and humour
I’ve decided to award myself the Subbuteo World Peace Prize.
December 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I’ve decided to award myself the Subbuteo World Peace Prize.
Some sharks have to keep on moving;
can’t relax, just keep improving,
hitting targets, multitasking:
surely there’s a time for basking?
#blueskypoetry #poem #shark #purpose #basking
can’t relax, just keep improving,
hitting targets, multitasking:
surely there’s a time for basking?
#blueskypoetry #poem #shark #purpose #basking
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Some sharks have to keep on moving;
can’t relax, just keep improving,
hitting targets, multitasking:
surely there’s a time for basking?
#blueskypoetry #poem #shark #purpose #basking
can’t relax, just keep improving,
hitting targets, multitasking:
surely there’s a time for basking?
#blueskypoetry #poem #shark #purpose #basking
October 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
September 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
1. Get a lucrative publishing deal
2. Sell film rights
3. Lawyer up
2. Sell film rights
3. Lawyer up
July 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
1. Get a lucrative publishing deal
2. Sell film rights
3. Lawyer up
2. Sell film rights
3. Lawyer up
Man going to St Ives “did not meet
polygamist with 343 cats and 2401 kittens”, according to latest “Salt Path” exposé.
polygamist with 343 cats and 2401 kittens”, according to latest “Salt Path” exposé.
July 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Man going to St Ives “did not meet
polygamist with 343 cats and 2401 kittens”, according to latest “Salt Path” exposé.
polygamist with 343 cats and 2401 kittens”, according to latest “Salt Path” exposé.
July 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
June 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
In school they always used
an overhead projector.
We were small and unaware:
everything went over our heads.
#poem #blueskypoetry #ohp
an overhead projector.
We were small and unaware:
everything went over our heads.
#poem #blueskypoetry #ohp
June 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
In school they always used
an overhead projector.
We were small and unaware:
everything went over our heads.
#poem #blueskypoetry #ohp
an overhead projector.
We were small and unaware:
everything went over our heads.
#poem #blueskypoetry #ohp
Food, wine, clothes, treasure,
eternal life: a pharaoh’s
Maslow pyramid
#haiku #poem #pyramids #blueskypoetry
eternal life: a pharaoh’s
Maslow pyramid
#haiku #poem #pyramids #blueskypoetry
May 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Food, wine, clothes, treasure,
eternal life: a pharaoh’s
Maslow pyramid
#haiku #poem #pyramids #blueskypoetry
eternal life: a pharaoh’s
Maslow pyramid
#haiku #poem #pyramids #blueskypoetry