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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...

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...