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Film Review: Rental Family 日租家庭 (2025) - US / Japan 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 peculiar magic of cinema often lies in its ability to make the specific universal, and the bizarre profoundly relatable. Japanese Hikari, the director who dissected simmering rage in "Beef," now turns her perceptive gaze towards a quieter, yet no less potent, form of human yearning in “Rental Family." This is not the...

Film Review: Carnage for Christmas (2024) - Australia 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 Punk Rock Slasher with Heart, If Not Polish - Australian Director Alice Maio Mackay’s “Carnage for Christmas" arrives not with a sleigh bell jingle, but with the crackle of a blown amplifier and the spray-painted energy of a zine passed hand-to-hand. At just 19 years old, Mackay delivers a micro-budget holiday horror that feels...

Film Review: Sentimental Value 情感的價值 (2025) - Norway Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 10/10 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 I left the theater after Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” feeling as though I’d been hollowed out and meticulously reassembled, piece by aching piece. This is not merely a film; it is an act of profound emotional archaeology, excavating the buried fault lines of family and the treacherous terrain where art meets life. Trier, already a...

Film Review: A Horse Named Winx (2024) - Australia 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 More Than a Mare, A Mirror to Ourselves - Australian Director Janine Hosking’s "A Horse Named Winx" achieves a small miracle. It takes a story etched in sporting stone – 33 races, 33 victories, an undefeated legend – and infuses it with genuine, gut-twisting suspense and profound emotional resonance. We *know*...

Film Review: Valley of the Shadow of Death 不赦之罪 (2025) - Hong Kong 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 Where Forgiveness Meets the Unforgivable - Hong Kong Directors Jeffrey Lam Sen and Antonio Tam’s “Valley of the Shadow of Death” isn’t just a film; it’s an open wound probed with theological questions. In a cinematic landscape often defined by kinetic energy, this Hong Kong offering dares...