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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: Busted Water Pipes 爆水管 (2026) - ChinaReviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 6.5/10 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.com A Refreshing Splash that Eventually Springs a Leak. No good movie is too long, and no bad movie is short enough. “Busted Water Pipes” is neither great nor terrible, yet at a bloated 132 minutes, it overstays its welcome by roughly a reel, drowning in one too many mistaken-identity routines that go from...

Film Review: Pass and Goal 逆轉上半場 (2025) - Hong Kong 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 in “Pass and Goal” when Fong Hay-man (Gigi Leung), once a high-flying financial consultant, now crammed into a Sham Shui Po walk-up after a crypto-related crash, watches a pack of neighborhood kids kicking a worn ball against a chain-link fence. She is not yet their coach....

Film Review: Private Life (aka Miss Hong Kong) 香港小姐寫真 (1987) - Hong Kong 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 something irresistibly intoxicating about the glossy, overheated melodramas that poured out of Hong Kong in the 1980s, and Private Life is a prime specimen. It understands that its audience wants beauty, romance, betrayal, and a dash of legal fireworks, all wrapped in that particular Cantonese...