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Film Review: Mercy 法無赦 (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 There is a moment early in “Mercy” when the protagonist, a harried detective played by Chris Pratt, is told he has exactly 90 minutes to convince a digital magistrate not to erase his family’s existence. I glanced at my watch. It was a nervous gesture, and it was exactly the response director Timur...

Film Review: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (28年後：人骨聖殿) (2026) - UK / 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 Haunting, Hallucinatory Detour from the Apocalypse - The infected are no longer sprinting through Piccadilly Circus. The frantic terror of “28 Days Later”, that gut-punch of a film that reanimated the zombie genre with digital grit and sheer panic, feels like a fever dream from...

Film Review: 28 Years Later (28年後) (2025) - UK / USA 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 Digital Dread and Diminished Returns, But a Welcome Return - Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, the architects of the 2002 lightning bolt that was “28 Days Later”, reunite for “28 Years Later”. It’s a homecoming fraught with expectation and the heavy dust of nearly two decades. Does it recapture...

Film Review: Train Dreams 火車大夢 (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 The Last Echo in the Timber: Clint Bentley's "Train Dreams" Whispers a Requiem for America - Director Clint Bentley's "Train Dreams," materializing on Netflix like a spectral transmission from a vanished world, defies the clamor of modern cinema. This adaptation of Denis Johnson's novella isn't a story told so much as a...

Film Review: Jay Kelly 影星傑凱利 (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 Noah Baumbach's "Jay Kelly," is a film that lingers. It’s the kind of picture that sparks arguments in coffee shops and lengthy threads online, not because it’s obscure, but because it strikes a raw, resonant nerve about the price tag attached to the American Dream, particularly the gilded, ruthless version peddled by...