Kerry Chambers
Existential Ecstasy: The Buddhist Trilogy by Akio Jissôji
*Some images NSFW* An illicit affair between brother and sister. A cult whose violent form of recruitment is through rape. A houseboy...
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Kerry Chambers
- Oct 31, 2020
- 6 min
Video Kills the Streaming Star? Reflecting on Hideo Nakata's The Ring (1998)
With the state of all things, we are seeing the legitimate questioning of the relevance of cinema, it's current lack-ness and it's...
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Kerry Chambers
- Jul 17, 2020
- 12 min
Music to My Ears - In Search of Soundtracks in Mainstream Cinema
Note: All scores used throughout this article I am very fond of, no hating from me on the links shared today. Music is possibly the...
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Kerry Chambers
- Jun 23, 2020
- 16 min
Time Waits For No One: Why The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is Essential Viewing
*Minor Spoilers - but not too many, hopefully enough to get you interested* ‘…I have an ideal to make movies that deal with values that...
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Kerry Chambers
- Jun 4, 2020
- 31 min
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Kerry Chambers
- Jun 3, 2020
- 8 min
Straw Dogs: The Representations of Rural Locations in the 1971 and the 2011 Remake
*Contains Spoilers* Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs, was set and filmed in Cornwall, England. It is about a married couple, David Sumner, an...
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Kerry Chambers
- May 31, 2020
- 7 min
American Classic: The Cinematic Film Style Swathed in Tradition
The American Classic Film style was a popular form of making films in the western world between the 1920’s to 1960’s. Often they could be...
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Kerry Chambers
- May 30, 2020
- 10 min
21st Century White-Washing in Film: How the Lack of Diversity is Changing the Stories we Tell
The western film industry, as an institution, has certainly been guilty of lazy, ignorant and racist casting since its conception. It has...
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Kerry Chambers
- May 30, 2020
- 11 min
Heritage Cinema: A Genre Analysis Comparing Jane Eyre (2011) and Pride & Prejudice (2005)
*Contains Spoilers* Literary adaptations and costume dramas have been produced on film since the beginning of cinema. British cinema has...
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Kerry Chambers
- May 29, 2020
- 8 min
The Storyteller: An Exploration of the Writer/Directors Pedro Almodóvar and Neil Jordan
*Contains Spoilers* The directors are ultimately storytellers; people who rummage through their own lives and deliver honest reflections...
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A Space for Reviews, World Cinema Appreciation, Essays and Reflections by Writer Kerry Chambers
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