‘Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence’ reviewed
❉ Daniel Marner on the pioneering Japanese-British co-production.
Articles by Daniel Marner
‘Further Perspectives & Distortion’ reviewed
❉ A fearsome challenge to those with more adventurous ears than most, writes Daniel Marner.
‘Video Nasty Mayhem: The Inside Story of VIPCO’ reviewed
❉ An offbeat, entertaining companion to the infamous ‘video nasties’ label.
Joseph Losey: ‘The Criminal’ (1960) & ‘The Go-Between’ (1971)
❉ Daniel Marner on two films book-ending a fertile period for director Joseph Losey.
‘Memory: The Origins Of Alien’ reviewed
❉ Daniel Marner reviews a new film exploring the alchemy that created ‘Alien’.
‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ (2019)
❉ Tarantino has called this his most personal film and it’s easy to see why, writes Daniel Marner.
Blu-Ray: ‘William Castle at Columbia Vol. 1’
❉ Nobody did it better or had more fun than William Castle, the PT Barnum of celluloid shock.
‘D.O.A.: A Right of Passage’ on Blu-Ray
❉ DOA has existed in a pirate-video limbo for several decades now, and to finally see it cleaned up on Blu-Ray is a wonderful thing, writes Daniel Marner.
‘Ciao! Manhattan’ on Blu-Ray
❉ Emerging onto Blu Ray for the very first time David Weisman and John Palmer’s Ciao! Manhattan is an odd, fragmentary, fitfully impressive patchwork quilt of a movie.
‘Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin: Five Films (1968-1971)’ reviewed
❉ If you have never seen a full-fat Godard-Gorin joint before prepare to be…. Baffled? Bored? Attacked? Shell-shocked? Annoyed? Outraged?