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Film Review: Sleazy Dizzy 小偷阿星 (1990) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 6.5/10 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 peculiar charm to early pre-superstar Stephen Chow vehicles like Sleazy Dizzy, a film that feels caught between the stylish crime pictures of the ‘80s and the full-blown mo lei tau absurdity that would later make Chow a Hong Kong superstar. Directed by the veteran Chor Yuen, whose career spanned...

Film Review: Psychedelic Cop 狂野臥底 (2002) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 6/10 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 movies that fail grandly, with ambition outstripping their grasp, and then there are movies like Psychedelic Cop, which arrive with the modest swagger of a straight-to-video Hong Kong B-picture that somehow wandered into theaters for a single, lonely week. It earned a paltry HK$330 at the box office — a...

Film Review: Reunion 手足情深 (2002) - 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.comThere are films that entertain us, and then there are films that reach into the chest and squeeze the heart until the tears come whether we want them or not. Chung Shu-kai’s Reunion belongs firmly in the second category — a sincere, old-fashioned melodrama about family, loss, and the stubborn endurance of...

Film Review: 100 Ways to Murder Your Wife 殺妻二人組 (1986) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 6.5/10 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 movies that feel like they were made in a fever dream after too many drinks at the pub, and then there’s “100 Ways to Murder Your Wife,” a cheerfully demented Hong Kong comedy that takes the Hitchcock premise of “Strangers on a Train” and drags it...

Film Review: The Nobles 單身貴族 (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 is something disarmingly honest about a romantic comedy that doesn’t pretend its characters have life all figured out. “The Nobles,” a buoyant 1989 Hong Kong film directed by Norman Chan (also known as Chan Hok-yan), understands that the real comedy—and the real drama—of modern urban life lies in the gap between what...