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Film Review: Headlines 頭號人物 (2001) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 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 The newsroom in Headlines is never still. Cameras swing, phones ring, editors bark, and three reporters scramble toward stories that will not wait. Leo Heung’s 2001 film is not a sleek media satire and it is not a crusading exposé. It is something quieter and more local: a modest Hong Kong drama...

Film Review: Righting Wrongs 執法先 (1986) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 9/10 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 moment early in Righting Wrongs when Yuen Biao, playing a prosecutor who still believes the law is a kind of church, watches the system fail in front of him. A witness is supposed to be protected. The witness is not protected. The family is not protected. The...

Film Review: Ong-Bak (Muay Thai Warrior) องค์บาก (拳霸) (2003) - Thailand Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 9/10 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 are movies that tell a story, and there are movies that put a body on the screen and dare you to look away. Ong-Bak is the second kind. It has a plot the way a boxing ring has ropes: necessary, obvious, and not why you came. Ting...

Film Review: Psycho Killer 魔殺手 (2026) - USA Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 5/10 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 I went in knowing two things: the writer of Se7en had been sitting on this script since the mid-2000s, and almost nobody who saw it in February had a kind word. That combination usually produces either a buried masterpiece or a film that explains why it stayed in a drawer. Psycho Killer is...

Film Review: Unexpected Courage 我們意外的勇氣 (2025) - Taiwan 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 The room has no window. That is the first fact the movie asks you to accept, and it never really lets you forget it. Light does not arrive. Time does not pass in the usual way. What arrives instead is a heartbeat you cannot see, and two people who have been dating...