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Film Review: Western Sydney Wanderers: The Asian Champions (2015) - Australia 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 something profoundly cinematic about underdogs who refuse to read the script written for them. In “Western Sydney Wanderers: The Asian Champions,” that defiance becomes not just a sporting tale but a stirring ode to resilience, identity, and the quiet poetry of a team that dared to dream...

Film Review: A Man and a Woman 一个男人和一个女人 (2026) - China / Hong Kong 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 In the spring of 2021, when the world felt suspended in amber, two ordinary travelers found themselves adrift in Hong Kong. Their flights had brought them this far, but the quarantine rules pinned them in place: side-by-side hotel rooms, thin walls, and 21 days of enforced...

Film Review: Project Hail Mary 末日聖母號 (2026) - USA 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 movies that entertain you, and then there are movies that remind you why stories matter—why a single spark of human curiosity, flung across the void, can feel like the most important thing in the universe. “Project Hail Mary,” the big-screen adaptation of Andy Weir’s bestselling novel, is one of...

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...