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Film Review: Shogun and Little Kitchen 伙頭福星 (1992) - 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 are films that arrive like fireworks and films that arrive like a home-cooked meal. Shogun and Little Kitchen is the second kind. It does not try to dazzle you with spectacle or lecture you with importance. It simply invites you in, pulls out a chair, and asks...

Film Review: Home at Hong Kong 家在香港 (1983) - 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 particular ache that belongs only to young people who believe the city will reward them if they just want it badly enough. Home at Hong Kong understands that ache completely. Andy Lau, still boyish and hungry in 1983, plays Alan Wong, a cosmetics salesman who fails...

Film Review: Knockabout 雜家小子 (1979) - 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 are films that simply move, and then there are films that dance. Knockabout belongs to the latter. It is a pure, kinetic expression of bodies in joyful, violent motion — a martial arts comedy that understands the difference between punching and performing. Yuen Biao, given his first true leading role...

Film Review: Thunderbolt 霹靂火 (1995) - 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 There is a particular kind of pleasure that comes from watching Jackie Chan throw himself into a machine. Not the graceful, almost balletic fights of earlier years, but the raw, industrial kind—where flesh meets steel and the camera refuses to look away. Thunderbolt is that kind of film. It is not his...

Film Review: Iceman Cometh 急凍奇俠 (1989) - Hong Kong 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 are films that arrive like polite guests and films that kick the door in wearing period costumes, brandishing swords, and demanding to know what a television is. The Iceman Cometh (1989) belongs firmly to the second category. Directed by Clarence Fok with the kinetic fury of the Yuen clan behind...