Torque is The Fast and The Furious but with motorbikes. That is the kind of in depth criticism you come to Do You See? for. It is all you need to know if you are considering seeing it. It is not as good as The Fast And The Furious, but it is better t[…]

Sean Penn is an awful lot better in 21 Grams than he was in Mystic River. 21 Grams is a much better film than Clint’s too, with a theme which is not a million miles away from it. It is however less hamstrung with TRYING TO MAKE A POINT. Actuall[…]

Shekhar Kapur’s hyperGothic Elizabeth ‘ starring Galadriel as the Virgin Queen ‘ was so kinetic, so stylish, all dry ice and dark angles, demonic Catholic priests looming against the light, the centenarian Gielgud refulgent in whore[…]

There are premises to films which are so damn good that it does not matter how shoddily put together the actual film is, you still come out feeling warm towards it. Grand Theft Parsons is one such film. The script is as poor as the supposed pun in th[…]

Matt DC has somewhat stolen my thunder on this ILX thread about Northfork. You see rather than go on an in depth discussion of this dreamlike collection of impressions which passes itself off as a movie, I was going to mention the “What you tal[…]

Not to rob Mr Sinker of propriatorial ownership on stories about If… (What will happen to the world if he claims copyright on this hypotheticval opener), a stumbled across article on Lindsay Anderson’s lost film about Wham! in China. Biza[…]

This has relegated me to blogging on something straight out of the seventies, with a keyboard not dissimilar to the early Tandy micro-computers. This of course is thoroughly apt for a short piece about Starsky & Hutch. Not just because my compute[…]

Bunk Bed Boys: Date for the diary – March 21 (i.e. NEXT MONDAY), 11PM. Do You See contributor Danny Peak has the pilot episode of his sitcom Bunk Bed Boys airing on PROPER TV, as part of BBC3’s Talent Week. It is by all accounts (not just[…]

Sheffield Sex City: The Movie! A much better title for the otherwise pretty lousy The Principles Of Lust . Or perhaps highlighting the apparently most daring aspect of the film, they could have called it Teen Fight Club. What TPOL is all about is tha[…]

Advertorial: the new (2004) edition of LMA Manager is out on the PS2. I LOVE IT. It’s better looking than ever; the new features are exactly what I’d have asked for; the match engine produces something which looks a little bit similar to […]