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Film Review: Materialists 錢財心愛物 (2025) - USA Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 8/10 Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com Celine Song’s "Past Lives" arrived like a whispered secret, a film of profound quietude and aching, unspoken longing. With her follow-up, “Materialists”, Song doesn't just raise her voice; she sharpens it into a stiletto. This is a film that crackles with cynical energy, trades poetic destiny for spreadsheets and status, and somehow emerges as one of the funniest,...

Film Review: Muzzle: City of Wolves 神探忠犬2：狼之城 (2025) - USA Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 5/10 Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com A Doggedly Loyal Sequel That Barks Louder Than It Bite - “Muzzle: City of Wolves" is the cinematic equivalent of a dependable, slightly worn work boot. It gets the job done, it’s built for a specific purpose, and you know exactly what you’re getting before you lace it up. This sequel to the surprisingly sturdy...

Film Review: The Carpenter's Son 木匠的兒子 (2025) - USA / France Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 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 Bewildering Descent from Ambition to Ambiguity - Lotfy Nathan’s “The Carpenter’s Son arrives with the heavy, portentous air of a storm cloud promising biblical fury. It dares to reimagine the adolescence of Jesus Christ – here, simply "The Boy" (Noah Jupe) – not as a time of quiet carpentry and burgeoning wisdom, but...

Film Review: The Running Man 逃亡遊戲 (2025) - USA / UK 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 Edgar Wright's The Running Man arrives in multiplexes with a high-concept premise that is perhaps more relevant now than it was when Stephen King first published the novel in 1982. The film is a sleek, propulsive thriller, less a remake of the schlocky 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle and more of a faithful, albeit stylized, return...

Film Review: Regretting You 愛．憾事 (2025) - USA 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 The camera loves a secret, and "Regretting You," Josh Boone's adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestseller, lays a particularly messy one bare after a shattering car accident. What follows is a melodrama that knows how to twist the knife of grief and betrayal, buoyed by performances that land with genuine emotional force, even when the plot threatens to...