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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...

Film Review: Shadow (2022) - Australia 🇦🇺 Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia 🇦🇺)   One of the beautiful delight of the bittersweet and dark Australian film about the gathering of a group of intellectually disable activists speaking about their rights and how so-called “normal” humans perceive them as often inferior species. This is made all the more damning with the notion of AI technology monitoring and moderating the discussion. Directed by Australian BrianGladwin based on the award winning stage production - The Shadow Whose Prey The Hunter Become, the 56 minutes film focus on real emotions...