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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...

Film Review: Skeleton Girls. A Kidnapped Society (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 A Neon Nightmare Where the Underground Still Breathes Fire - Australian Director Richard Eames doesn’t so much direct “Skeleton Girls. A Kidnapped Society” as unleash it. Described aptly as a "digital hardcore Wizard of Oz fable," this jagged, pulsating debut feature feels less like a movie and more like a transmission hacked straight from the...

Film Review: Snatchers (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 Gritty Aussie Chamber Piece Where Desperation Meets the Undead - There’s a particular brand of sweaty, claustrophobic dread that Australian cinema often brews so well, a sense of moral decay festering under the harsh sun or, in the case of Aussie directing duo Craig Alexander and Shelly Higgs' “Snatchers”, within the fluorescent-lit sterility of a forgotten basement. Transplanting...