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Film Review: Fear Below (2025) - Australia I rated it 6/10 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 Not the crystalline terror of the open ocean, but the thick, brown soup of the Murray River in 1946. Not sleek neoprene, but clanking, copper diving suits that look like medieval torture devices crossed with deep-sea coffins. “Fear Below”, Australian director Matthew Holmes' simple genre mash-up, takes the well-worn shark thriller and drags it kicking and gasping into the muddy depths of post-war Australian noir. It’s a...

Film Review: Spit (2025) - Australia Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 6/10 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 Welcome, Wobbly Return for a Beloved Scoundrel - The peculiar alchemy of a beloved screen character is a fragile thing. Twenty-two years ago, in the criminally underappreciated “Gettin’ Square”, David Wenham conjured magic as Johnny “Spit” Spitieri – a perpetually flustered, twitchy, low-level crim with a heart buried somewhere beneath layers of incompetence and sheer, sweaty desperation. He...

Film Review: Black Box Diaries 黑箱日誌 (2024) - Japan / USA / UK 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 A Harrowing Thriller Written in Blood and Courage - Shiori Itō does not merely tell her story in “Black Box Diaries”, she forces you to live it, breath by ragged breath, in the suffocating darkness of a system designed to silence her. This isn't just a documentary; it's a first-person procedural thriller...

Film Review: Primitive War (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 Australian director Luke Sparke’s “Primitive War” arrives with a premise so gloriously blunt it demands attention: American soldiers deep in the Vietnam jungle, locked in a desperate firefight not just with the Viet Cong, but with resurrected dinosaurs hungry for G.I. Joe. Based on Ethan Pettus’s cult novel, this is not the tame - “Jurassic Park”, it’s more...

Film Review: Residence (2025) - Australia Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 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 Leave it to the Australians to take the well-trodden path of the zombie apocalypse, drag it kicking and screaming through the scrub, and set it loose in a medieval theme park. Aussie director Matt Mirams' “Residence” is precisely that gonzo concoction: a micro-budget, blood-soaked Aussie Gothic comedy that shouldn’t work nearly as well as it bloody well does. It...