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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...

Film Review: Good News (굿뉴스) (2025) - South Korea Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 8.5/10 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 Truth, Lies, and the Absurd Theater of Power - Korean Director Byun Sung-hyun’s “Good News” arrives on Netflix like a meticulously timed satirical bomb, detonating laughter that curdles into something sharper, angrier, and profoundly relevant. Based on the jaw-dropping, almost-too-absurd-to-believe true story of the 1970 “Yodo-go” hijacking, the film transforms a...

Film Review: The Great Flood (巨洪) 대홍수 (2025) - South Korea Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 6/10 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 Korean Director Kim Byung-woo’s “The Great Flood”, arriving with a splash on Netflix this December, is a film that possesses undeniable technical skill and moments of genuine, waterlogged terror, only to tragically lose its bearings in a sea of overreaching ideas. It’s a cinematic vessel that springs a devastating leak...

Film Review: The King of Kings (萬王之王) (2025) - USA / 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 Gentle Giant of Faith, Seen Through a Child's Eyes - Lets begin by noting the sheer audacity. To take the greatest story ever told, rendered in stained glass and fresco for millennia, and entrust it to the fluid, boundless realm of animation? And then, to frame it not through...

Film Review: No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다) 選擇有罪 (2025) - South Korea Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 9/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ 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 Savage, Elegant Descent into Capitalist Madness - Park Chan-wook, that master architect of moral vertigo and visual splendor, returns with “No Other Choice" (어쩔수가없다), a film that doesn't just hold a mirror to our desperate, algorithm-haunted times – it smashes the mirror and uses the shards to...