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Film Review: Messy (2024) - 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 A Cracked Mirror Held Up to Modern Love - Director / Actress Alexi Wasser’s “Messy" arrives not with a whimper, but with a clatter of empty wine bottles, the echo of therapy-speak, and the frantic ping of a dating app notification. This sharp, neurotic, and frequently hilarious sex comedy feels like a long-overdue tremor...

Film Review: Echo 8 (2024) - Australia Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 5/10 Rating: ★ ★ ½ 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 Micro-Budget Marvel... and Its Unavoidable Growing Pains - Let us first tip our hat to the sheer, stubborn audacity of it. "Echo 8," a feature-length Australian action-thriller directed, co-written, and headlined by the indefatigable Maria Tran alongside Takashi Hara, was reportedly wrestled onto the screen for an ultra shoestring budget. In an era...

Film Review: No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다) 選擇有罪 (2025) - South Korea Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 9/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ 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 Savage, Elegant Descent into Capitalist Madness - Park Chan-wook, that master architect of moral vertigo and visual splendor, returns with “No Other Choice" (어쩔수가없다), a film that doesn't just hold a mirror to our desperate, algorithm-haunted times – it smashes the mirror and uses the shards to...

Film Review: Behind the Shadows 私家偵探 (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 Sweaty, Moody Noir That Trips Over Its Own Mystery - Hong Kong directors Jonathan Li and Chow Man-yu's "Behind the Shadows" (私家偵探) sweats. It sweats the greasy perspiration of Kuala Lumpur's back alleys and the desperate anxiety of a man watching his life unravel through a telephoto lens. This 2025 neo-noir transplants...

Film Review: Montages of a Modern Motherhood 虎毒不 (2024) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ ½ 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 Harrowing Portrait of Postpartum Despair - Six years ago, Hong Kong director Oliver Chan Siu-kuen gave us “Still Human”, a film radiating warmth and connection amidst hardship. Her return, “Montages of a Modern Motherhood”, feels like stepping from sunlight into a cramped, airless room vibrating with the...