What is the message behind the Legally Blonde films? These are Hollywood redemptive comedies after all, there must be a message. Is it that:
a) Blondes aren’t dumb after all (countered by all her blonde friends being dumb)
b) Is it that we all […]

One of the best reasons to go to a barbeque is not so much the food, as the eclectic selection of sauces, chutneys and relishes that people have in their cupboards. This weekend at a Dulwich barbiel I had the tastiest hot sauce I have ever smeared ov[…]

Ending 24-2 (or 48 as I liked to call it) with a cliffhanger was a terible idea. It is one unfortuantely picked up from the rest of US season based TV that do not have such tight ongoing storylines. In those cases the season cliffhanger exists mainly[…]

To second Martin’s Lawrence Block appreciation below – I am a dipper into detective fiction and it only really sticks when I hit a character I like. Chip Harrison was the clincher for me, a bumper library collected edition with a ridiculo[…]

VERONICA GUERIN (by way of The General and When The Sky Falls)
In Veronica Guerin Cate Blanchett plays Joan Allen playing Sinead Hamilton in When The Sky Falls who is actually Veronica Guerin. Its okay, if that looks confusing there is a precedent fo[…]

We never discover who All The Real Girls are in David Gordon Green’s film. Like much of the film even the title has a dislocated, incidental feel to it. The film initially is equally slap-dash about its chronology – starting with the key […]

The Japanese are great smokers (both in number and quality). I think I have found the iconic Japanese smoker though, Machiko Kyo – in her role as slightly long in the tooth actress in Ozu’s Floating Weeds. The film looks oddly anachronist[…]

Look, look – Indie is king. 28% of platinum albums in the UK last year were on indie labels. Actually further perusal of the story tells you that the true figure is 39% but that included albums which went multiple platinum – which is a di[…]

Everyone loves cheese right? Cheese Net certainly do. You might expect a site with some rather good info on cheese but it is also garnished with a cheese of the day, troubleshooting section called Ask Dr Cheese and a Cheese Poem of the week. Their fa[…]

This should be a welcome post for Do You See? explaining all the wonderful things that this all new offshoot of Freaky Trigger will be giving you in the field of TV, film and the like. Instead it already degenerates in to me backing up the half remem[…]