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    Recommends: Top 10 James Spader Performances
    Kerry Chambers
    • Apr 29
    • 11 min

    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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    Recommends: Top 15 Complex Mother/Daughter Relationships on Screen
    Kerry Chambers
    • Mar 27
    • 19 min

    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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    Recommends: Top 10 Neil Jordan Films
    Kerry Chambers
    • Jan 26
    • 18 min

    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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    Recommends: 13 Anime That I Couldn’t Forget…
    Kerry Chambers
    • Nov 30, 2021
    • 20 min

    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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    Recommends: Top 50 Japanese Films (PART 3)
    Kerry Chambers
    • Sep 10, 2021
    • 26 min

    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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    Recommends: Top 50 Japanese Films (PART 2)
    Kerry Chambers
    • Aug 20, 2021
    • 24 min

    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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    Recommends: Top 50 Japanese Films (PART 1)
    Kerry Chambers
    • Aug 12, 2021
    • 17 min

    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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    Recommends: Top 15 Ingmar Bergman Films
    Kerry Chambers
    • Jul 13, 2021
    • 16 min

    Recommends: Top 15 Ingmar Bergman Films

    It’s time. How long I have revelled in pondersome procrastination as I tried to conjure up a new article. Yet here it was, standing right...
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    Recommends: Top 15 Pedro Almodóvar Films
    Kerry Chambers
    • Jun 17, 2021
    • 17 min

    Recommends: Top 15 Pedro Almodóvar Films

    Warning: Some Images NSFW Pedro Almodóvar’s latest cinematic feat is something monumental in his long career. A short film starring Tilda...
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    Recommends: Top 10 Films about Filmmaking
    Kerry Chambers
    • Apr 14, 2021
    • 13 min

    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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    Recommends: The Cinema of Lee Chang-dong and Why He’s Your New Favourite Director
    Kerry Chambers
    • Mar 31, 2021
    • 17 min

    Recommends: The Cinema of Lee Chang-dong and Why He’s Your New Favourite Director

    An avid lover of modern South Korean cinema - finding its social and political voice excitingly engaging, with great humour and brilliant...
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    Recommends: Top 10 Love Stories to Indulge in on Valentines Day
    Kerry Chambers
    • Feb 10, 2021
    • 17 min

    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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    Recommends: Top 15 Sion Sono Films
    Kerry Chambers
    • Jan 25, 2021
    • 15 min

    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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    Recommends: Top 10 Alternative Christmas Films
    Kerry Chambers
    • Dec 4, 2020
    • 9 min

    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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    Recommends: Wong Kar-Wai Films Ranked
    Kerry Chambers
    • Nov 14, 2020
    • 9 min

    Recommends: Wong Kar-Wai Films Ranked

    I've been on a little high as I revisit one of my favourite filmmakers this week. Escapism, desire and longing captured through the lens...
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    Recommends: Top 15 Films to Enjoy this Halloween
    Kerry Chambers
    • Oct 11, 2020
    • 12 min

    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...
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    Recommends: My Top 20 Anime Series (Part 2)
    Kerry Chambers
    • Sep 9, 2020
    • 16 min

    Recommends: My Top 20 Anime Series (Part 2)

    “Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.” - Hayao Miyazaki Back again to continue the list of...
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    Recommends: My Top 20 Anime Series (Part 1)
    Kerry Chambers
    • Sep 5, 2020
    • 11 min

    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...
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    Recommends: Top 10 Hirokazu Koreeda Films
    Kerry Chambers
    • Aug 20, 2020
    • 7 min

    Recommends: Top 10 Hirokazu Koreeda Films

    Hirokazu Koreeda is the master of the modern socially-conscious, family drama who chooses to explore the various dynamics in the familial...
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    Recommends: Top 20 Anime Films That Have Influenced Me
    Kerry Chambers
    • Aug 12, 2020
    • 18 min

    Recommends: Top 20 Anime Films That Have Influenced Me

    Anime had produced some of the best visuals, characters and storytelling since the dawn of cinema. But it currently isn’t as highly...
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    Recommends: Top 15 Studio Ghibli Films
    Kerry Chambers
    • Aug 1, 2020
    • 12 min

    Recommends: Top 15 Studio Ghibli Films

    Studio Ghibli’s cinema was the first time I really understood the difference between a children’s film and a family film. Until then my...
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    Recommends: Top 15 Akira Kurosawa Films
    Kerry Chambers
    • Jul 23, 2020
    • 13 min

    Recommends: Top 15 Akira Kurosawa Films

    Today I want to do a countdown of my top fifteen Akira Kurosawa films, a favourite director of mine who was one of the greatest writers...
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    Recommends: Top 15 of Japanese Cinema
    Kerry Chambers
    • Jul 10, 2020
    • 10 min

    Recommends: Top 15 of Japanese Cinema

    Of the vast international cinemas out there, Japan is my favourite. Off-beat storytelling, rich culture and history and an eye for gentle...
    279 views0 comments
    'From the Star...': Children of the Sea (Dir. Ayumu Watanabe, 2019) Review

    'From the Star...': Children of the Sea (Dir. Ayumu Watanabe, 2019) Review

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    'He'll No Longer Sing...': Koko-di Koko-da (Nyholm, 2019) Review

    'He'll No Longer Sing...': Koko-di Koko-da (Nyholm, 2019) Review

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    The Saboteur: Lounging on the Lily Pad Two Years On

    The Saboteur: Lounging on the Lily Pad Two Years On

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