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Film Review: Even If This Love Disappears Tonight 오늘 밤, 세계에서 이 사랑이 사라진다 해도 (即使，這份戀情今晚會從世上消失) (2025) - South Korea Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 9/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 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 In the quiet alchemy of cinema, few films capture the fragile poetry of human connection quite like Even If This Love Disappears Tonight. Directed by Kim Hye-young and adapted from Misaki Ichijo’s novel (with roots in its earlier Japanese...

Film Review: Humint 휴민트 (Hyuminteu)人工情报 (2026) - South Korea Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 9/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 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 In the shadowed borderlands where nations collide and trust is the rarest currency, Ryoo Seung-wan has crafted one of the most exhilarating Korean spy thrillers in recent memory. Humint—a title drawn from the intelligence term for “human intelligence,” those fragile human sources who risk everything—unfolds like a masterclass in tension,...

Film Review: Love Untangled 고백의 역사 (Gobaekui Yeoksa) 捲捲初戀 (2025) - South Korea Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 8/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 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 Tangle of Heart and Frizz - There is a moment early in “Love Untangled” when Park Se-ri, a high school student in 1998 Busan, stands before a bathroom mirror with a jar of chemical relaxer in one hand and a prayer on her lips. She is...

Film Review: Once We Were Us 만약에 우리 後來的我們 (2025) - South Korea Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 8/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 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 Two People Who Can't Find the Same Page - I have always said that movies are empathy machines. Kim Do-young's "Once We Were Us" works that machine overtime, grinding gears against each other until you feel every spark and every stall. This Korean remake of Rene Liu’s...

Film Review: Pavane (파반느) (孔雀舞曲) (2026) - South Korea Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ 1/2 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 Quiet Dance in the Shadows - “Pavane” is the kind of movie they don't make anymore—or, more accurately, the kind they never made much of in the first place. It doesn't shout. It doesn't chase you. It sits in the corner of a dark room and waits for you to...