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Film Review: Anaconda 狂蟒之災 (2025) - USA Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com A Meta-Boaconstrictor Squeezing Laughs and Heart from Exhausted IP - Leave it to Tom Gormican, the maestro of meta-madness behind Nic Cage wrestling with his own iconography, to find fresh, writhing life in the most exhausted of concepts: the giant snake movie. "Anaconda (2025)" isn't just a reboot; it's a hilarious, self-lacerating autopsy...

Film Review: Row To Win 浪浪人生 (2025) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com Finding Dignity in the Pull of the Oar. “Row To Win" arrives not with a roar, but with the quiet, persistent slap of water against wood. Director Ma Lin crafts a bittersweet family dramedy, Han Han’s signature dry wit sanding down the harsh edges of debt, illness, and faded dreams. It’s...

Film Review: The Grandmaster 一代宗師 (2013) - Hong Kong / China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 10/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com A Masterpiece of Time, Loss, and Motion - There are films you watch, and films that watch you back. Wong Kar-wai’s “The Grandmaster” is the latter. Upon its initial release, it was often framed—and marketed—as a biographical action film about Ip Man, the martial arts master who taught...

Film Review: Shelter 天眼浩劫 (2026) - USA / UK Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 6/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com There is a scene early in "Shelter" where Jason Statham, playing a man named Michael Mason, stands in a downpour outside a remote Scottish croft, looking at something in the middle distance. He is wearing a thick cable-knit sweater. His face, which appears to have been chiseled from the same granite as...

Film Review: Unexpected Family 過家家 (2026) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 9/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com Jackie Chan has spent sixty years risking his neck for our amusement. He has jumped from moving trains, dangled from helicopter skids, and rolled down mountainsides encased in a bamboo cage. He is, without question, one of the most physically gifted performers in the history of cinema. But at 72, he...