Kerry Chambers
Recommends: Top 10 Ken Russell Films
*Some Images NSFW* Unpredictable, gauche, weird and provocative; words not usually associated with British cinema. But that was what you...
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Kerry Chambers
Jun 13, 202312 min read
Recommends: Top 13 Anime to Enjoy this Summer
Today as I relish the bumbling of the cooing pigeon’s fussing about the birdfeeder, thinking about summer’s I may never quite have, could...
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Kerry Chambers
Apr 25, 202310 min read
Recommends: Top 10 Walerian Borowczyk Films
*Some Images NSFW* Director, animator, provocateur, the ‘engineer of ecstasy’ and more, Walerian Borowczyk wore many a guise in his...
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Kerry Chambers
Feb 21, 202316 min read
Recommends: Top 20 Werner Herzog Films
I've got Herzog on the brain. A renegade; as much a fictitious titan as he is grounded in reality. From his tumultuous relationship with...
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Kerry Chambers
Dec 10, 20225 min read
'I Just Feel A Bit Down Or Something': Aftersun (Wells, 2022) Review
Well look what we have here? Another review I meant to pen almost four weeks ago. I caught Aftersun in its first week, rushed to it in...
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Kerry Chambers
Nov 17, 20225 min read
'It Does Look Like We're Rowin'...': The Banshees of Inisherin (McDonagh, 2022) Review
There is nothing like the melodic wilt of the Irish brogue. Nor is there anything quite like the razor sharp witticisms of a Martin...
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Kerry Chambers
Nov 10, 20225 min read
'The Moment Your Love Ends...': Decision to Leave (Dir. Park Chan-wook, 2022) Review
Park Chan-wook is phenomenal. I missed the clanging of erotic balls in the cinema, enjoyed in a single intensive sitting some time later,...
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Kerry Chambers
Oct 13, 202216 min read
Recommends: Top 15 Leslie Cheung Performances
‘I used to think there was a kind of bird that, once born, would keep flying until death. The fact is that the bird hasn't gone anywhere....
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Kerry Chambers
Jul 31, 202212 min read
Recommends: Top 10 Films by Tsai Ming-liang
A neon dreamscape; a lonely meander through the cities, bodies meeting bodies, missing one another in a breath. Tsai Ming-liang has...
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Kerry Chambers
Jun 27, 202210 min read
Recommends: Top 5 Films of Toshiaki Toyoda
How does one start a discussion about one of Japanese Cinema’s most underrated filmmakers? By stating just how underrated he is. That is...
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Kerry Chambers
Jun 14, 20227 min read
'From the Star...': Children of the Sea (Dir. Ayumu Watanabe, 2019) Review
“From the star. From the stars. The sea is the mother. The people are her bosom. Heaven is the playground.” And the so the festival...
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Kerry Chambers
Jun 6, 20225 min read
'He'll No Longer Sing...': Koko-di Koko-da (Nyholm, 2019) Review
“Our rooster's dead, our rooster's dead, He'll no longer sing kokodi, kokoda,” Koko-di, Koko-dull… that was dreadful, but then again so...
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Kerry Chambers
Apr 29, 202211 min read
Recommends: Top 10 James Spader Performances
That drawl, that stillness, that gaze. He is a fascinating watch, is that James Spader. Sometimes he seems like an entity trying to...
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Kerry Chambers
Apr 13, 20225 min read
'... A Spectator in my Own Life': The Worst Person in the World (Trier, 2021) Review
Sometimes a film feels like a mirror is being held up to you. Sometimes it feels like a little bit of déjà vu. The strangest of these is...
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Kerry Chambers
Mar 27, 202219 min read
Recommends: Top 15 Complex Mother/Daughter Relationships on Screen
Happy Mother’s day and all that jazz! What better way to commemorate the day than exploring some of the most complex mother daughter...
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Kerry Chambers
Mar 10, 20228 min read
Gatekeepers and Godfathers: A Thought Piece on the Cinema Experience
It’s only the most famous film trilogy of all time, right? It’s only an opportunity that is too good to refuse, right? To see those films...
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Kerry Chambers
Feb 23, 20225 min read
'I Know Nothing Else But..': Belfast (Branagh,2022) Review
Well. What can I say? I didn’t hate, I didn’t love it. Indifference should let me forget about it, and to some degree I do. I am under no...
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Kerry Chambers
Feb 17, 20226 min read
Another Tale as Old as Time: Belle (Hosoda, 2022) Review
I saw Belle last night. I would love to divulge my extensive and, even for me, salty interpretation of modern day, post-lockdown...
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Kerry Chambers
Jan 26, 202218 min read
Recommends: Top 10 Neil Jordan Films
Ha Ha Ha! And here I thought I would be gushing full of words after the last article. Alas, I was emaciated of words, as much as the...
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Kerry Chambers
Nov 30, 202120 min read
Recommends: 13 Anime That I Couldn’t Forget…
“If it’s possible for one person to be hurt by another, then it’s possible for that person to be healed by another.” – Hatori Sohma I'm...
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