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Film Review: Primitive War (2025) - Australia Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7/10 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 Australian director Luke Sparke’s “Primitive War” arrives with a premise so gloriously blunt it demands attention: American soldiers deep in the Vietnam jungle, locked in a desperate firefight not just with the Viet Cong, but with resurrected dinosaurs hungry for G.I. Joe. Based on Ethan Pettus’s cult novel, this is not the tame - “Jurassic Park”, it’s more...

Film Review: Residence (2025) - Australia Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 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 Leave it to the Australians to take the well-trodden path of the zombie apocalypse, drag it kicking and screaming through the scrub, and set it loose in a medieval theme park. Aussie director Matt Mirams' “Residence” is precisely that gonzo concoction: a micro-budget, blood-soaked Aussie Gothic comedy that shouldn’t work nearly as well as it bloody well does. It...

Film Review: One More Shot (2025) - Australia Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 6.5/10 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 Fizzy, Fleeting Trip Down Memory Lane - Australian Director Nicholas Clifford's "One More Shot" arrives like a forgotten bottle of Zima discovered in the back of a Y2K-era fridge: slightly dusty, unquestionably of its time, and offering a brief, effervescent, if ultimately insubstantial, burst of flavor. It's a time-loop comedy draped in the desperate glitter and...

Film Review: Kangaroo (2025) - Australia Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 8/10 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 Australian director Kate Woods steers her camera back into the vast, sunbaked heart of Australia, and with “Kangaroo”, she finds not just scenery, but soul. This film arrives like a welcome, cool breeze off the desert – a crowd-pleaser, yes, built on the sturdy chassis of a "fish-out-of-water" redemption tale, but imbued with such earnestness and visual splendor that...

Film Review: The Correspondent (2024) - Australia Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7/10 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 Kriv Stenders’ "The Correspondent" arrives not with a bang, but with the grim, suffocating weight of reality. It chronicles the 400-day Egyptian imprisonment of journalist Peter Greste, a story both profoundly unsettling and depressingly familiar in its outline – the foreign correspondent caught in a geopolitical vise, accused of crimes he manifestly did not commit. While the narrative...