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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...

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...