MINE MINE ALL MINE – that’s OK Pete, you can buy me a beer tonight. Do You See readers, please take notes on Sex and the City for me in case I end up drinking the old b33r and missing it eh? Happy weekend all.[…]

I’m off for a week so I am leaving Do You See? in the ever reliable hands of Starry Sarah C (someone should probably tell her this, er…), who has being doing the lion share of this weeks seeing anyhoo. When I return we will see the grand […]

Go Ape Crazy! – a Freaky Trigger article by Anthony Easton exploring the idea ape in myth, film and pop culture. Hopefully FT will be putting up one or two new articles a week from now on, ideally on a Friday so I can go to the pub feeling vagu[…]

Rewatching The Return of the King with Dr Vick, we both found ourselves wincing and hiding our eyes plenty of times during the Battle of the Pellenor Fields. OK, so self-appointed hardnut intellectuals = mimpy underneath the pose shock horror newsfla[…]

Footballers Wive$ back on your ITV screens Wednesday 11 February. Can’t wait? Then try Footballers Wive$ fan fiction! (So I don’t have to).[…]

I Love Horses, They’re My Friends. Advert breaks have been spiced up since Christmas by the wonderous publishing house known as Deagostini, the mafia front* magazine publishers who publish magazines in series of one squillion issues, each with […]

Film titles which promise much but do not deliver. There is no point in Runaway Jury where the twelve just and true ones decide they have had enough of this tedious trial mularkey and scarper from the box. Nowhere dow we see them being persued by the[…]

A Weekend Out

Tokyo Story
The 50s Tokyo = 30s America theme extends to the pastoral music, all strings and harps. I hadn’t thought about the harp as such a classic “domestic bliss” signifier, but that it is.
Lost in Translation
Bil[…]

Shout out to our foreign reader(s)! Is that Korean? ON WITH THE SHOW!!
I love Judge John Deed. Don’t you know what it is? It’s a courtoom CRIME DRAMA on the BBC. That, along with the repeats of Room 101 with Jonny Vegas are worth the lice[…]

Timeline is a thoroughly entertaining lousy movie. (okay, lousy movie Monday has finished, but there are just too many lousy films in this world to just fit in one day). Hacked back to life one imagines in an edit suite by someone who has no interest[…]