THE STAR WARS TRILOGY DVD SET
You might have heard of this. My thoughts on the original version of Star Wars are here and talking about the films themselves in detail I’m in two minds of, but I think not this time. So instead, some brief refl[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
22: THIS IS SPINAL TAP
Some directors just get lucky. Marti DiBergi could be said to be one of those directors if you consider This Is Spinal Tap to be enough to make a career. If you however also consider his ill-fated attempts to m[…]

Spearmint – Say Something Else
In which Shirley Lee becomes a curmudgeonly DYS blogger in song form. OK so nobody on FT except me cares about Spearmint (and perhaps the rant is too predicatable for some) AND this is old news to the 5 Spearmint […]

in which Jude Law teams up with Judith Hann and Michael Rodd to save the world from experiments that do not work on television. If Tomorrow’s World still existed, Sky Captain would be exactly the kind of film that would have been hugely feature[…]

YOU NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD
Dear Do You See reader(s),
so, you don’t like watching the new Channel Four programme, Green Wing, right? I can hear your cries from where I type, it’s too long, you say! It would be alright if it were half an h[…]

Red Lights had been billed as a taut French psychological thriller. That says to me that plenty of things could go wrong, but the reviews tempted me in. As it happened the film was not bad, but it was not a taut psychological thriller. Based on a Geo[…]

Gutterbreakz on Dr.Who novelisations – plus MP3s and a terrific photograph of Malcolm Clarke looking mental as he (I fondly hope) composes the music for “The Sea Devils”.[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
23: GREMLINS 2
Of the sequels in this list, this one perhaps might raise the biggest eyebrow. Its predecessor is by no means a great movie, it might have its fans but was too kiddie to be scary, and too scary for the kids. Oh and its[…]

Jelly telly
Answers, if you will, to Three’s latest ad campaign.
You know the one: Japanese urban cowboys find huge jellyfish in scrubland, take it back to the city, give it a drink, do a little bodypopping. Tag line: “We like sharing&#82[…]

ANTHEMS (Part 2 of 4)
Continued from The Brown Wedge
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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Dir. Lewis Milestone
The first version of this story I saw — though I barely remember anything about it, I was only eight at the time and didn’t h[…]