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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...

HKIFF Film Review: The Chronology of Water 水的編年史 (2025) - USA / France / UK / Latvia Reviewed at the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2026 Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7/10 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 scene about halfway through Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water” where Imogen Poots, playing the memoirist Lidia Yuknavitch, stands in a swimming pool at night. The water is black. The...

Film Review: Send Help 腦細天劫 (2026) - USA Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 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 Sam Raimi’s ‘Send Help’ Is the ‘Evil Dead’ of Office Politics - There is a moment about forty-five minutes into Sam Raimi’s “Send Help” where Dylan O’Brien’s character—a tech-bro boss named Bradley so perfectly odious you half-expect him to ask a coconut for a synergy meeting—attempts to “disrupt” the coconut industry by...