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'I Feel Wide Open...' The Outcasts (Wynne-Simmons, 1982) Review
There's something fitting about The Outcasts being somewhat lost for more than forty years. Not right, but fitting. A true gem in Irish film
Kerry Chambers
Mar 65 min read
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'It's Okay Not To Be Okay.': We Live in Time (Dir. John Crowley, 2024) Review
Pugh and Garfield shine but Romantic drama We Live in Time attempts authenticity; even if it’s doing too and not a lot all at once.
Kerry Chambers
Feb 105 min read
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Recommends: Top 15 Complex Father/Daughter Relationships on Screen
If the mother/ daughter dynamic in cinema is the strain between the genders, the conflict in the father/daughter dynamic tugs on the...
Kerry Chambers
Jan 2814 min read
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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...
Kerry Chambers
Feb 2, 20215 min read
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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...
Kerry Chambers
Jan 25, 202115 min read
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'...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...
Kerry Chambers
Jan 16, 20216 min read
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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...
Kerry Chambers
Dec 4, 20209 min read
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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...
Kerry Chambers
Oct 31, 20206 min read
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Recommends: Top 15 Films to Enjoy this Halloween
Halloween is drawing ever nearer and with the possibility of a night-in for most, I have decided to reflect on some of my favourite...
Kerry Chambers
Oct 12, 202012 min read
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The Netflix One: The Forest of Love (Sono, 2019)
** 1/2 As a huge fan of Japanese, European and surrealist-shock cinema, writer/director Sion Sono quickly became a favourite of mine...
Kerry Chambers
Sep 27, 20206 min read
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Urotsukidoji: No Shame, No Gain
It's funny that we all have our little obsessions. Funnier still is how they come and go. For some it's romance novels, others it's the...
Kerry Chambers
Sep 18, 20205 min read
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Recommends: My Top 20 Anime Series (Part 1)
“Anime – it’s not something that can be thought of in a hall for conferences. It is made out of strange juices current from the brain of...
Kerry Chambers
Sep 5, 202011 min read
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A Space for Reviews, World Cinema Appreciation, Essays and Reflections by Writer Kerry Chambers

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