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Film Review: The Grandmaster 一代宗師 (2013) - Hong Kong / China 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 A Masterpiece of Time, Loss, and Motion - There are films you watch, and films that watch you back. Wong Kar-wai’s “The Grandmaster” is the latter. Upon its initial release, it was often framed—and marketed—as a biographical action film about Ip Man, the martial arts master who taught...

Film Review: Shelter 天眼浩劫 (2026) - USA / UK 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 There is a scene early in "Shelter" where Jason Statham, playing a man named Michael Mason, stands in a downpour outside a remote Scottish croft, looking at something in the middle distance. He is wearing a thick cable-knit sweater. His face, which appears to have been chiseled from the same granite as...

Film Review: Unexpected Family 過家家 (2026) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 Jackie Chan has spent sixty years risking his neck for our amusement. He has jumped from moving trains, dangled from helicopter skids, and rolled down mountainsides encased in a bamboo cage. He is, without question, one of the most physically gifted performers in the history of cinema. But at 72, he...

Film Review: Back to the Past 尋秦記 (2025) - Hong Kong 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 Some movies aren't really movies. They are time capsules, thrown into the sea twenty-four years ago, now washing back up on shore covered in barnacles and memories. "Back to the Past," the feature-film continuation of the beloved 2001 TVB series, is exactly that. It is less a piece of...

Film Review: Where Have You Been? (ŠTO TE NEMA) (2024) - Bosnia and Herzegovina / Italy / USA / UK 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 in Mirko Pincelli’s “Where Have You Been” that captures everything the film is trying to say. The camera lingers on a single ceramic coffee cup, one of thousands laid out in neat, endless rows. It’s empty,...