Kerry Chambers
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
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
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
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
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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Kerry Chambers
Nov 12, 202110 min read
‘However Much We May Love Them…’: Drive My Car (Hamaguchi, 2021) Review
“After all, it’s just a matter of flesh and blood. No more than a pile of bone and ash in the end right? There has to be something more...
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Kerry Chambers
Oct 28, 20217 min read
'Though I Look Like Hell...': The Season of the Samurai
Halloween! Where did you come from? Do I wish I could remember how I’ve spent the month I should have been indulging in all things...
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Kerry Chambers
Sep 10, 202126 min read
Recommends: Top 50 Japanese Films (PART 3)
The last stretch is upon me and I realised before that I got a little carried away, a little overexcited by the promise of some of the...
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Kerry Chambers
Aug 20, 202124 min read
Recommends: Top 50 Japanese Films (PART 2)
Here we go again: into part two. I don’t expect everything I have to offer will be to everyone’s taste, but when I thought about what I...
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Kerry Chambers
Aug 12, 202117 min read
Recommends: Top 50 Japanese Films (PART 1)
It has been a year. Ahh, to think how naïve I was when first assembling a list of top Japanese films. Fifteen was all I managed. FIFTEEN?...
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Kerry Chambers
Jun 1, 202114 min read
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
Apr 14, 202113 min read
Recommends: Top 10 Films about Filmmaking
Cinema is art in motion, stories around the campfire retold in astounding ways, humanity playing out on the big screen, a spectacle to...
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Kerry Chambers
Feb 10, 202117 min read
Recommends: Top 10 Love Stories to Indulge in on Valentines Day
‘What grace have I to fall so in love?’ - Lizzie West Valentine’s Day is naff, we all know it. Coming from a bitter old hag like myself...
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Kerry Chambers
Feb 2, 20215 min read
Ujicha: The Ghastly Master of Geki-mation
I love being pleasantly surprised. I’ve made no secret about my concerns over the future of creativity and storytelling. Rehashing old...
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Kerry Chambers
Jan 25, 202115 min read
Recommends: Top 15 Sion Sono Films
I was rather preoccupied in 2020, delving into the realms of Japanese cinema and best of all discovering Japan’s most subversive and...
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Kerry Chambers
Jan 15, 20216 min read
'...Aren't There Some Flowers That Never Bloom': Blue Spring (Toyoda, 2001) Review ****1/2
Here we go again. It's been a while, I must admit. [Insert existential sentence with as many commas as I feel is humanly necessary to get...
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Kerry Chambers
Dec 4, 20209 min read
Recommends: Top 10 Alternative Christmas Films
Are you tired of the usual Christmas line-up? Has The Muppets Christmas Carol, It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street turned...
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Kerry Chambers
Nov 20, 20205 min read
'...I Probably Could Have Lived Freely': 37 Seconds (2020) Review
****1/2 Often I talk about humanism, a desire for the genuine, for sincerity in much of what I consume. When I escape from the world, it...
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Kerry Chambers
Oct 31, 20206 min read
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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