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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: Obedience (十方之地) (2025) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 6/10 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 Stark Portrait of Hong Kong's Margins, Beautifully Seen Yet Distantly Felt - Hong Kong Director Wong Siu-pong's "Obedience" (十方之地) is a film that sees. It sees the cracked pavement and overflowing bins of Hong Kong's Hung Hom district. It sees the slow, deliberate labor of the elderly, bent like ancient trees, pushing...

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...