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Film Review: Deep Water 深水 (2026) - USA Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 In the vast, indifferent Pacific, a plane falls from the sky like a wounded bird, and what follows is less a story of mere survival than a primal test of human frailty under teeth and tide. Renny Harlin, that old maestro of efficient genre thrills (Deep Blue Sea, Die Hard 2), returns...

Film Review: A Foggy Tale 大濛 (2025) - Taiwan Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 9/10 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 are films that shout their importance, and then there are those like Chen Yu-hsun’s A Foggy Tale(大濛), which arrive on quiet feet, wrapped in mist, and leave you changed in ways you don’t immediately notice. This is one of the finest Taiwanese films in recent memory — a work...

Film Review: Blades of the Guardians 鏢人：風起大漠 (2026) - Hong Kong / China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 moments in the cinema when the screen ceases to be a rectangle of light and becomes a portal to another world — windswept deserts, flashing blades, and the weight of destiny pressing down on mortal shoulders. Yuen Woo-ping’s Blades of the Guardians is one such...

Film Review: Double Happiness 雙囍 (2026) - Taiwan Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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.comIn the realm of wedding comedies, where chaos is usually confined to drunken toasts and missing rings, Joseph Chen-Chieh Hsu’s “Double Happiness” (雙囍) dares something more ambitious and humane. It takes the familiar farce of a big day gone wrong and layers it with the deeper fractures of divorce, parental ego, childhood wounds,...

Film Review: Finch & Midland 今天應該很高興 (2025) - Hong Kong / Canada Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 is a quiet power in stories that refuse to shout. Timothy Yeung’s debut feature Finch & Midlanddoes not offer easy catharsis or triumphant Hollywood arcs. Instead, it sits with its characters in the modest apartments and strip-mall corners of Scarborough’s Finch and Midland intersection—the beating heart of...