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Film Review: Nonnas 母愛食堂 (2025) - USA 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 There are movies that are made, and then there are movies that are cooked. “Nonnas,” the new film from Stephen Chbosky, has been simmering on the back burner for a long time, and it has reduced into something rich, nourishing, and deeply satisfying. It’s a bowl of comfort food for the soul, and...

Film Review: Wuthering Heights 咆哮山莊 (2026) - USA / UK 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 There is a moment early in Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” when the camera lingers on the back of Jacob Elordi’s neck—dirty, slick with sweat, veins bulging as he chops wood with the kind of violence that suggests he’s murdering the tree rather than merely trimming it. This shot, perhaps four...

Film Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die 團戰之夜 (2026) - USA 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 Chaotic, High-Stakes Caffeine Kick - There is a specific kind of joy that comes from watching a director who has spent years in the studio-system wilderness finally cut loose. Gore Verbinski, the mad architect behind the first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” films and the deranged masterpiece...

Film Review: Michael 米高積遜 (2026) - USA 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 You want to know what it’s like to watch Michael Jackson spin, kick, and grab his crotch on the big screen? It’s like mainlining pure pop euphoria. Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael” has sequences—the Thriller breakdown, the Smooth Criminal lean—that are so electrically alive they remind you why concert films were invented. But then the...

HKIFF Film Review: Queen at Sea 欲愛流離 (2026) - USA / UK Reviewed at the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2026 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 Lance Hammer’s “Queen at Sea” is a haunting, rigorously composed return to cinema that demands your undivided attention. After an eighteen-year absence following his stark 2008 debut “Ballast”, Hammer delivers a film that feels both startlingly modern and...