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Film Review: Mr. Zheng (Special Friend) 我最特别的朋友 (2025) - China 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 Finds a Melancholy Poetry in the Desert of Digital Fame - The most memorable shots in “Mr. Zheng” are not of its sweeping Gobi Desert vistas, but of its protagonist’s face in close-up. Zhang Songwen, an actor who can convey tectonic shifts of feeling with the slightest tremor of his...

Film Review: Prisoner of War (2025) - USA / Philippines 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 What is it we go to the movies for? Sometimes, we crave transformation; other times, we hunger for craft. “Prisoner of War”is a film of the latter category, delivering its specialized goods with impressive and brutal efficiency. This is a vehicle for the formidable Scott Adkins, and as such, it...

Film Review: The Housemaid 美傭誘罪 (2025) - 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 The great Hollywood thriller has always understood a fundamental truth: the most dangerous games are played behind closed doors, on polished floors, under the cold glow of recessed lighting. “The Housemaid,” director Paul Feig’s unexpected and glossy detour into psychological suspense, knows this well. It drapes itself in the sleek, moneyed aesthetic...

Film Review: Nobody (金刚不坏) (2025) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 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 Chinese Director Li Wei’s “Nobody” is the kind of film that makes you wonder what might have been. It positions itself as a gritty, street-level fable of redemption, tinged with the vinegar of black comedy, but it cannot decide what it wants to be. The result is a curiously inert experience—a film that gestures...

Film Review: Fish Bone 鱼刺 (2025) - China 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 Silent Sting of Growing Up - It is a rare and quiet agony, the kind “Fish Bone” so masterfully documents. This is not a film of grand gestures or sweeping melodrama, but of humid, cramped rooms and meals eaten in suffocating silence. Chinese Director Zhang Xuyu has crafted a piercingly intimate...