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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: 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...

Film Review: Kung Fu Soccer 功夫女足 (2026) - China / 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 Stephen Chow has returned, and for two hours he makes the world feel young again. Kung Fu Soccer is not a perfect film. The digital effects sometimes look like they were rendered on a machine that still remembers the year 2004. Certain gags announce themselves with...

Film Review: The Sun Rises on Us All 日掛中天 (2025) - China 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 quiet devastation in Cai Shangjun’s The Sun Rises on Us All. It does not arrive with grand declarations or swelling music. It settles in slowly, like humidity in a southern Chinese summer, until you realize you have been breathing it the whole...