Kerry Chambers
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 25, 202115 min read
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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Kerry Chambers
Jan 15, 20216 min read
'...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
Dec 4, 20209 min read
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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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 31, 20206 min read
Video Kills the Streaming Star? Reflecting on Hideo Nakata's The Ring (1998)
With the state of all things, we are seeing the legitimate questioning of the relevance of cinema, it's current lack-ness and it's...
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Kerry Chambers
Oct 11, 202012 min read
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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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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Kerry Chambers
Sep 27, 20206 min read
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, 20205 min read
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
Sep 5, 202011 min read
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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