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Film Review: Love Is Hard 情圣3 (2025) - China Reviewed 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 Greasy Takeout for the Marriage-Weary Soul - Chinese Director Dong Xu’s "Love Is Hard" arrives not with the fanfare of a masterpiece, but with the clatter of dropped dishes and the weary sigh of a couple debating whose turn it is to take out the trash. It is, as advertised, a "grounded...

Film Review: Forbidden City (La città proibita) 紫禁城 (2025) - Italy 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 Gabriele Mainetti loves Rome the way Fred Astaire loved a tuxedo: as something to be tested, stretched, and sent spinning into places it was never meant to go. In They Call Me Jeeg, he gave the city a radioactive superhero. Now, in Forbidden City (La città proibita), he gives...

Film Review: Kill 'Em All 2 狂風廝殺2 (2024) - USA / Italy 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 There is a specific, almost melancholy patience required to watch the late-period filmography of Jean-Claude Van Damme. It is the patience of watching a once-unstoppable force of nature learn to exist as a landscape feature. In the new film "Kill 'Em All 2," the 63-year-old "Muscles from Brussels" doesn't...

Film Review: Roofman 屋頂人 (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 In "Roofman," Derek Cianfrance, a director whose previous films ("Blue Valentine," "The Place Beyond the Pines") have the emotional weight of a cinder block tied to your ankles, does something unexpected. He floats. He trades his usual somber grit for a tone so disarmingly sweet and surreal that you spend the first half-hour...

Film Review: Kangaroo Island (2025) - Australia  Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 The vast, wind-scoured beauty of Kangaroo Island isn't merely a backdrop in Timothy David's remarkable "Kangaroo Island"; it is a character, a judge, a reluctant healer, and the very crucible in which a fractured family must attempt to mend. This isn't just a homecoming story; it’s a masterclass in excavating the deep,...