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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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'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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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
Sep 10, 20225 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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'... 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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'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...
Kerry Chambers
Feb 23, 20225 min read
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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...
Kerry Chambers
Feb 17, 20226 min read
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'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...
Kerry Chambers
Feb 10, 20225 min read
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‘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...
Kerry Chambers
Nov 12, 202110 min read
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'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...
Kerry Chambers
Apr 29, 20217 min read
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'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....
Kerry Chambers
Mar 23, 20218 min read
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'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...
Kerry Chambers
Feb 26, 20216 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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'...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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'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...
Kerry Chambers
Nov 27, 20207 min read
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