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Film Review: The Great Flood (巨洪) 대홍수 (2025) - South Korea 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 Korean Director Kim Byung-woo’s “The Great Flood”, arriving with a splash on Netflix this December, is a film that possesses undeniable technical skill and moments of genuine, waterlogged terror, only to tragically lose its bearings in a sea of overreaching ideas. It’s a cinematic vessel that springs a devastating leak...

Film Review: The Rip 全信沒收 (2026) - USA Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7/10 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 A Familiar Siege, Elevated by Brotherhood - Director Joe Carnahan’s “The Rip” arrives on Netflix not with a revolutionary bang, but with the satisfying, well-oiled click of a shotgun being racked. It’s a film that knows its place – firmly within the sweat-stained confines of the cops-in-a-pressure-cooker genre – and executes its...

Book Review: More Sex, Better Zen, Faster Bullets: The Encyclopedia of Hong Kong Film (2020) - by Mike Wilkins and Stefan Hammond 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 You hold in your hands not a book, but a stunt. A literary high-fall, performed without a net, landing in a crash of bullet casings, ghostly talismans, and shattered mahjong tiles. If the glorious, chaotic cinema of Hong...

Film Review: My Date with a Vampire 驅魔龍族馬小玲 (2025) - Hong Kong / China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 4/10 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 The undead walk among us once more, but this time, they shuffle with the weary gait of contractual obligation. “My Date with a Vampire (2025)”, a reboot of the beloved, gloriously messy 1998 ATV supernatural soap opera, arrives draped in the heavy velvet of nostalgia, only to reveal...

Film Review: The Travellers (2025) - 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 You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave... The oldest stories resonate the deepest. Australian Director Bruce Beresford, returning to the intimate Australian terrain that birthed films like "Breaker Morant" and "Don's Party," understands this profoundly. "The Travellers," released late last year, isn't about reinventing the prodigal son's...