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Kerry Chambers
Dec 10, 20225 min read
'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...
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Kerry Chambers
Nov 17, 20225 min read
'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...
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Kerry Chambers
Nov 10, 20225 min read
'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,...
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Kerry Chambers
Sep 9, 20225 min read
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...
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Kerry Chambers
Jun 14, 20227 min read
'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
Apr 13, 20225 min read
'... 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, 20225 min read
'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, 20226 min read
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, 20225 min read
'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, 202110 min read
‘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, 20217 min read
'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
Feb 26, 20216 min read
'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, 20215 min read
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
Nov 27, 20207 min read
'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, 20205 min read
'...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
Oct 21, 20207 min read
'I Never Asked for a Miracle...': Berserk and the Humanity in Horror
Violent Images used throughout *A little spoiler here and there, just remember guys - beware* “If you’re alone… if it’s just your life,...
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Kerry Chambers
Oct 4, 20205 min read
'Just the Ocean is Plenty...' : A Girl on the Shore by Inio Asano (Review)
****1/2 I am possibly the most complacently casual Manga reader, dipping in and out wherever I go. You see, I'm more of a book girl....
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