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Film Review: Past Lives 從前的我們 (2023) - USA Tagline: A Masterpiece of the Heart’s Quiet Arithmetic Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) Rating: ★★★★★ 10/10 Full Review:   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 films are felt before they are understood. Celine Song’s “Past Lives” is one of those films. It arrives not with the clamor of a blockbuster or the prickly ambiguity of an art-house puzzle, but with the profound, quiet weight of a truth you’ve always known but...

Film Review: Ballerina (殺神John Wick之芭蕾殺姬) (2025) - USA Rating: ★★★☆☆ (7/10) Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia)   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 “Ballerina" is a film of two halves, a student who hasn't quite mastered her teacher's lessons but still puts on a show worthy of a passing, if not quite honor-roll, grade. It exists, as the marketing relentlessly reminds us, "From the World of John Wick," and that is both its greatest asset and its most crippling burden....

Film Review: Together 長相黐守 (2025) - USA / Australia Rating: ★★★★☆ (8/10) Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) 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 Tagline:  What is it about romantic entanglement that makes such fertile, terrifying ground for horror? Cinema keeps reminding us: love can be the ultimate nightmare. Michael Shanks’ sharp, startling debut feature “Together" understands this primal fear intimately. It asks a question that chills the bone: What if the secure relationship you fought for becomes the very...

Film Review: Final Destination Bloodlines 死神來了：血脈 (2025) - USA Tagline: A Gruesome, Witty Dance with the Reaper Rating: ★★★★☆ (8/10) Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) https://neofilmshop.com/blogs/news/film-review-final-destination-bloodlines-2025-usa     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 Death takes a vacation? Hardly. After a decade's silence, the Grim Reaper returns to the multiplex with “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” and it’s a surprisingly robust, bloody, and darkly funny resurrection. Co-directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, this sixth entry doesn't reinvent the death trap,...

Film Review: Nobody 2 殺神2 (2025) - USA Rating: ★★★★☆ (8/10) Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia)   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 Tagline: Odenkirk's Beleaguered Berserker Returns, Bigger and Bloodier (But Still Farmisht) There’s no stopping the violently raging dad, not in life and certainly not at the multiplex. He’s a familiar type, a late-career steroid shot for certain actors (Liam Neeson built a franchise on it), capable of skewing hellish or heroic, often both. His violence can be...