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Film Review: Westgate (2025) - Australia Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 8/10 Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com A Gritty Masterpiece Forged in Melbourne's Crucible - Adrian Ortega’s “Westgate” arrives like a freight train carrying the weight of history and the desperation of the present. Set in the sun-bleached, industrial heart of Footscray, Melbourne, circa 1999, it’s a film that doesn’t just depict struggle – it becomes struggle. It’s a bruising, breathless, and profoundly felt experience that...

Film Review: Pasa Faho (2025) - Australia Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7/10 Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com A Quietly Radiant Tapestry of Heritage and Home - Kalu Oji’s debut feature, “Pasa Faho" (meaning "parts of a whole"), arrives like a warm breeze carrying the scent of distant soil mixed with Melbourne suburbia. It’s a film that eschews the polished sheen often associated with Australian cinema for something far more valuable: lived-in authenticity. Set amidst the...

Film Review: Fwends (2025) - Australia Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com There is a particular, precious alchemy in the cinema that occurs when actors inhabit their roles so completely, and a director captures them with such unassuming grace, that the screen seems to dissolve. We aren't watching a performance; we're granted privileged access to a life. Sophie Somerville's remarkable debut feature, “Fwends”, achieves this delicate magic. It’s a film less...

Film Review: We Bury the Dead (2025) - Australia / USA Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 6.5/10 Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com Grief Walks Among the Undead - Australian director Zak Hilditch’s “We Bury the Dead” arrives not with the gnashing frenzy of a Romero rampage, but with the heavy, deliberate tread of a mourner carrying an impossible burden. This is a zombie film stripped of much of its inherent pulp, draped instead in the sodden...

Film Review: Together 長相黐守 (2025) - USA / Australia Rating: ★★★★☆ (8/10) Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) 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 Tagline:  What is it about romantic entanglement that makes such fertile, terrifying ground for horror? Cinema keeps reminding us: love can be the ultimate nightmare. Michael Shanks’ sharp, startling debut feature “Together" understands this primal fear intimately. It asks a question that chills the bone: What if the secure relationship you fought for becomes the very...