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Film Review: Crossing a Dawn 今晚正好 (2026) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 There is a particular hour of the night in a big city when the neon still glows but the crowds have thinned, and two people who met only hours earlier can suddenly feel as if they have known each other for years. Zhao Badou’s *Crossing a Dawn* understands that hour. It is...

Film Review: Be Yourself 錯過了，遺憾嗎？ (2026) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ ½ 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 There is a particular kind of quiet that settles in after a clean break. Not the dramatic silence of a slammed door, but the smaller one that arrives when someone simply stops answering. In “Be Yourself”, Wu Xiaobei (Zhuang Dafei) is living inside that silence. Fresh out of university, she has been...

Film Review: Just 1 Day 給我1天 (2022) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 There is a particular kind of Hong Kong romance that knows exactly what it is and refuses to apologize for it. Just 1 Day belongs to that lineage. It is gentle, a little sentimental, and deeply attached to the city it moves through — the kind of film that trusts...

Film Review: The Jade Pendant 唐人街1871 (2017) - USA / Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 There is a circular green jade pendant that Peony wears against her skin, a gift from her grandmother meant to bring luck and protection. In The Jade Pendant, that small piece of stone becomes the quiet center of a larger, more turbulent story — one about Chinese immigrants...

Film Review: Dear You 給阿嬤的情書 (2026) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 10/10 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 I have always believed that the movies are at their best when they show us ordinary people doing something quietly extraordinary. Not saving the world. Not delivering a speech. Just deciding, day after day, to keep a promise no one will ever thank them for. Dear You is that kind of...