Kerry Chambers
Feels Like Home: E.T The Extra Terrestrial at 40
Well, I never thought I would be ticking things off my bucket list already. Never gave my bucket list much thought, nor do I have any...
Kerry Chambers
- Jun 14
- 7 min
'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
- 5 min
'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 13
- 5 min
'... 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
- Feb 23
- 5 min
'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
- 6 min
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
- Feb 10
- 5 min
'It Takes a Village...': Parallel Mothers (Almodóvar, 2022) Review
Pedro Almodóvar is in a new phase of storytelling, a far more pensive and thoughtful phase all the while speckled with his characteristic...
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Kerry Chambers
- Nov 12, 2021
- 10 min
‘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
- Apr 29, 2021
- 7 min
'As Long As I Have You, I'll Be Okay...': Bleak Night (2010) Review
**** As another couple of weeks pass and my inactivity on this blog grows ever more unsettling to myself alone - not to say that I have...
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Kerry Chambers
- Mar 23, 2021
- 8 min
'The Great Hungry': The Debilitating Rage of the 21st Century in Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
“It is said that Bushmen have two types of hungry people... Little hungry and great hungry. Little hungry people are physically hungry....
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Kerry Chambers
- Feb 26, 2021
- 6 min
'You can go wherever you want...': An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo, 2018)
I watch a lot of films and find myself moved far less than this blog suggests. Supposing I was a true critic I would fill these pages...
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Kerry Chambers
- Feb 2, 2021
- 5 min
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 16, 2021
- 6 min
'...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
- Nov 27, 2020
- 7 min
'The World is Not What it Used to Be...': Farewell My Concubine Review (Chen Kaige, 1993)
***** 'I am by nature a boy, not a girl...' Over and over does Dieyi mistakenly repeat these words before his master at the Beijing Opera...
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Kerry Chambers
- Nov 20, 2020
- 5 min
'...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
- Sep 27, 2020
- 6 min
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...
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Kerry Chambers
- Sep 18, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Kerry Chambers
- Jun 25, 2020
- 6 min
Barely Whisked Away: A Whisker Away (2020) Review ***
Rating: *** I was so pumped to watch A Whisker Away. Like, embarrassingly so. Not a day went by in the month beforehand did I not think...
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Kerry Chambers
- Jun 12, 2020
- 6 min
A New Perspective on Vietnam: Da 5 Bloods (2020) Spike Lee Review ***
My Rating: *** Sometimes I wonder if a film had been made twenty/twenty-five years ago would it get the same reaction as it does now? Are...
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Kerry Chambers
- Jun 6, 2020
- 5 min
A Hole in My Afternoon... Watching Lukas Moodysson's Grotesque Experimental Drama (2004) *
Rating: *
Why Lukas Moodysson's experimental drama was A Hole in MY Afternoon
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Kerry Chambers
- Jun 1, 2020
- 4 min
Quirky Boy Seeks Delusion: Ruby Sparks (2012) Review ****
Last night I dreamt of boy with blue eyes. He found me in at the bar in a sleazy night club, returning my friend to me having found her...
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Kerry Chambers
- May 28, 2020
- 3 min
A Voyage of Discovery: 'Maiden' (2019) Review *****
Some women on a boat; the cynic that I am saw very little appeal in Alex Holmes documentary, Maiden, opening in cinemas this week. From...
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Kerry Chambers
- May 28, 2020
- 4 min
Requiem for the Victims: 'Lost Lives' (2019) Review ****1/2
Last night I went to the cinema out of necessity rather than want. A need to understand a conflict that has always been present in my...
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