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Film Review: Beasts Clawing at Straws 지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들(2020) - South Korea 🇰🇷   Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 12/365 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews   The film just never stop stop having fun and thrills till the very last scene of the most unexpected person striking lucky and walking away unscratched. “Beasts Crawling at Straws” directed and written by Kim Yong-hoon instantly reminds me of Johnnie To’s crime thrillers. It follows the same framed story, where everything, our decisions have a direct...

Film Review: The Golden Holiday (국제수사) Gookjesoosa (2020) - South Korea 🇰🇷 Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 11/365 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews   “The Golden Holiday”, written and directed by Kim Bong-Han is precisely what it’s movie title suggest, it’s a holiday action comedy. Those trying hard to go deeper than it really is, will have a hard time enjoying the film. It is one of those senseless and mindless action comedy that will either annoy the daylights out of you or you...

Film Review: Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP 미스터 주: 사라진 (2020) - South Korea 🇰🇷 Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 07/365 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Speaking of mindless entertainment, writer and director Kim Tae-yoon, manages just that with the action comedy “Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP”. Filled with cheesy CGI, talking animals and the VIP panda in obvious human costumes, it is the exactly the kind of senseless fun best enjoyed over a couple of Korean beers. It helps that the film stars...