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Film Review: Shanghai Wonton 菜肉馄饨 (2025) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 8/10 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 Soulful Bowl of Memory and Mismatched Hearts - There is a scene in Chinese Director Wu Tiange's "Shanghai Wonton" where the protagonist, Lao Wang, meticulously folds a tiny square of dough around a lump of seasoned pork. His gnarled, aging fingers move with a precision that his fading mind can no...

Film Review: Weapons 凶器 (2025) - USA Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 8/10 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 are horror movies that want to startle you, and then there are horror movies that want to swallow you whole. Zach Cregger’s “Weapons” is the latter. It arrives with the heavy tread of a film that knows you’re watching, and it takes its sweet time folding you into its dreadful logic. If...

Film Review: F Valentine’s Day (2026) - 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 The Shot of Ouzo You Didn't Know You Needed - In the saccharine swamp of Valentine’s Day offerings, where every kiss is scored by a coffeehouse ballad and every conflict is resolved with a grand gesture at an airport, "F Valentine’s Day" arrives not with a box of chocolates, but with a...

Film Review: Marty Supreme 癲造之才(2025) - USA 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 There is a moment early in Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme” when Timothée Chalamet, playing the 1950s table tennis savant Marty Mauser, stands alone in a smoky New York hall, paddle in hand, and grins. It is not a nice grin. It is the grin of a man who has just realized he...

Film Review: Under Current 內幕 (2025) - Hong Kong / 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 A Sleek, Smoldering Thriller of Wallets and Wills - Director Alan Mak returns to the gray-zone battlegrounds he knows so well with “Under Current”, a film that operates like a precision-engineered watch—cold, intricate, and compelling in its relentless forward motion. This isn’t the bullet-riddled, heroic bloodshed of old Hong...