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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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'I Am An Appetite. Nothing More.': Nosferatu (Eggers, 2024) Review
Eggers sprawling horror reignites Gothicism on screen in its grimmest way...the Victorians would have loved it.
Kerry Chambers
Feb 45 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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Recommends: Top 10 Ken Russell Films
*Some Images NSFW* Unpredictable, gauche, weird and provocative; words not usually associated with British cinema. But that was what you...
Kerry Chambers
Sep 19, 202314 min read
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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...
Kerry Chambers
Jun 14, 202312 min read
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Recommends: Top 10 Walerian Borowczyk Films
*Some Images NSFW* Director, animator, provocateur, the ‘engineer of ecstasy’ and more, Walerian Borowczyk wore many a guise in his...
Kerry Chambers
Apr 25, 202310 min read
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Recommends: Top 20 Werner Herzog Films
I've got Herzog on the brain. A renegade; as much a fictitious titan as he is grounded in reality. From his tumultuous relationship with...
Kerry Chambers
Feb 22, 202316 min read
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'I Just Feel A Bit Down Or Something': Aftersun (Wells, 2022) Review
Well look what we have here? Another review I meant to pen almost four weeks ago. I caught Aftersun in its first week, rushed to it in...
Kerry Chambers
Dec 10, 20225 min read
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'It Does Look Like We're Rowin'...': The Banshees of Inisherin (McDonagh, 2022) Review
There is nothing like the melodic wilt of the Irish brogue. Nor is there anything quite like the razor sharp witticisms of a Martin...
Kerry Chambers
Nov 17, 20225 min read
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'The Moment Your Love Ends...': Decision to Leave (Dir. Park Chan-wook, 2022) Review
Park Chan-wook is phenomenal. I missed the clanging of erotic balls in the cinema, enjoyed in a single intensive sitting some time later,...
Kerry Chambers
Nov 10, 20225 min read
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Recommends: Top 15 Leslie Cheung Performances
‘I used to think there was a kind of bird that, once born, would keep flying until death. The fact is that the bird hasn't gone anywhere....
Kerry Chambers
Oct 13, 202216 min read
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Recommends: Top 10 Films by Tsai Ming-liang
A neon dreamscape; a lonely meander through the cities, bodies meeting bodies, missing one another in a breath. Tsai Ming-liang has...
Kerry Chambers
Jul 31, 202212 min read
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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...
Kerry Chambers
Jun 27, 202210 min read
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'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...
Kerry Chambers
Jun 14, 20227 min read
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'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...
Kerry Chambers
Jun 6, 20225 min read
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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...
Kerry Chambers
Apr 29, 202211 min read
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'... 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...
Kerry Chambers
Apr 13, 20225 min read
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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...
Kerry Chambers
Mar 27, 202219 min read
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Gatekeepers and Godfathers: A Thought Piece on the Cinema Experience
It’s only the most famous film trilogy of all time, right? It’s only an opportunity that is too good to refuse, right? To see those films...
Kerry Chambers
Mar 10, 20228 min read
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