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Film Review: The Grandmaster 一代宗師 (2013) - Hong Kong / China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 A Masterpiece of Time, Loss, and Motion - There are films you watch, and films that watch you back. Wong Kar-wai’s “The Grandmaster” is the latter. Upon its initial release, it was often framed—and marketed—as a biographical action film about Ip Man, the martial arts master who taught...

Film Review: Unexpected Family 過家家 (2026) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 Jackie Chan has spent sixty years risking his neck for our amusement. He has jumped from moving trains, dangled from helicopter skids, and rolled down mountainsides encased in a bamboo cage. He is, without question, one of the most physically gifted performers in the history of cinema. But at 72, he...

Film Review: My Date with a Vampire 驅魔龍族馬小玲 (2025) - Hong Kong / China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 4/10 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 undead walk among us once more, but this time, they shuffle with the weary gait of contractual obligation. “My Date with a Vampire (2025)”, a reboot of the beloved, gloriously messy 1998 ATV supernatural soap opera, arrives draped in the heavy velvet of nostalgia, only to reveal...

Film Review: Fox Hunt 獵狐行動 (2025) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7/10 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 A Superb Game Played on a Slightly Worn Board - After years languishing in the shadows of anticipation,”Fox Hunt" finally springs onto the screen, a sleek, international thriller showcasing two of contemporary cinema’s most formidable actors locked in a continental game of cat and mouse. Directed with glossy efficiency by Zhang Lijia, it delivers precisely the high-stakes...

Film Review: Crocodile Island 巨鱷島(2020) - China Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 03/365 https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Buy me a coffee ☕️ or two to support our Asian cinema film reviews since 2004! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog     Guilty popcorn pleasure is what you can best describe the Hong Kong star Gallen Lo led giant monster disaster film “Crocodile Island”. Replicating the success of Hollywood similar genre films with “The Rock” or Jason Statham (think “The Meg”), this low budget highest grossing Chinese made web-release contains all the...