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Film Review: One More Shot (2025) - Australia Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 6.5/10 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 Fizzy, Fleeting Trip Down Memory Lane - Australian Director Nicholas Clifford's "One More Shot" arrives like a forgotten bottle of Zima discovered in the back of a Y2K-era fridge: slightly dusty, unquestionably of its time, and offering a brief, effervescent, if ultimately insubstantial, burst of flavor. It's a time-loop comedy draped in the desperate glitter and...

Film Review: Kangaroo (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 Kate Woods steers her camera back into the vast, sunbaked heart of Australia, and with “Kangaroo”, she finds not just scenery, but soul. This film arrives like a welcome, cool breeze off the desert – a crowd-pleaser, yes, built on the sturdy chassis of a "fish-out-of-water" redemption tale, but imbued with such earnestness and visual splendor that...

Film Review: Fox Hunt 獵狐行動 (2025) - China 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 A Superb Game Played on a Slightly Worn Board - After years languishing in the shadows of anticipation,”Fox Hunt" finally springs onto the screen, a sleek, international thriller showcasing two of contemporary cinema’s most formidable actors locked in a continental game of cat and mouse. Directed with glossy efficiency by Zhang Lijia, it delivers precisely the high-stakes...

Film Review: My First of May 無名指 (2025) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) Rating: ★ ★ ★ ½ 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 James Hung's “My First of May” arrives on our screens like a well-worn, tear-stained handkerchief – familiar, perhaps overly so, but undeniably effective in its purpose. This Hong Kong family drama, anchored by veteran actors and a heartbreaking premise, knows precisely which emotional chords to pluck. It plays them...

Film Review: The Correspondent (2024) - 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 Kriv Stenders’ "The Correspondent" arrives not with a bang, but with the grim, suffocating weight of reality. It chronicles the 400-day Egyptian imprisonment of journalist Peter Greste, a story both profoundly unsettling and depressingly familiar in its outline – the foreign correspondent caught in a geopolitical vise, accused of crimes he manifestly did not commit. While the narrative...