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Film Review: The Lost Tiger (2025) - Australia 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 Australian director Chantelle Murray’s “The Lost Tiger” arrives on the screen bearing the welcome weight of history: it is Australia’s first animated feature directed by an Indigenous woman. That distinction alone marks it as significant. While its narrative treads familiar ground in the family adventure genre, stumbling occasionally on well-worn tropes, the film ultimately succeeds...

Film Review: With or Without You (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 A Fractured Family Odyssey Anchored by Towering Performances - Australian director Kelly Schilling’s debut feature, “With or Without You," arrives like a dusty, sun-bleached postcard from the heart of South Australia – one stained with tears and cheap beer, yet somehow holding a glimmer of defiant hope. Premiering at the Adelaide Film Festival, this...

Film Review: Unseen Enemy (2025) - Australia Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7/10 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’s a palpable sense of muscle memory in “Unseen Enemy," a gritty Sydney-set actioner that feels less like a modern film and more like a well-worn Hong Kong cinema VHS tape discovered in the back of a video store, its spine cracked, its promise of visceral thrills still potent. Directors Salvatore Samperi and Mathew John Pearson haven't just...

Film Review: My Melbourne (2025) - Australia / India Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 8.5/10 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 Tapestry of Longing and Belonging, Stitched with Raw Humanity - Melbourne, that jewel of the southern hemisphere, wears its cosmopolitanism like a crown. Yet beneath the vibrant laneways, the aroma of coffee, and the thrum of trams, lies a quieter, more complex city – a place of profound isolation for those caught between worlds. "My...

Film Review: Beast of War (2025) - Australia Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 8/10 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 Australian director Kiah Roache-Turner, that maestro of Aussie mayhem who brought us the gonzo gasoline-fueled zombie apocalypse of “Wyrmwood”, has traded desert highways for the unforgiving Timor Sea. In “Beast of War”,  he delivers not just a shark movie, but a visceral, saltwater-soaked survival epic that feels ripped from a war journal found in Davy Jones' locker....