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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...

Film Review: A Man and a Woman 一个男人和一个女人 (2026) - China / 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 In the spring of 2021, when the world felt suspended in amber, two ordinary travelers found themselves adrift in Hong Kong. Their flights had brought them this far, but the quarantine rules pinned them in place: side-by-side hotel rooms, thin walls, and 21 days of enforced...

Film Review: After Typhoon 下一个台风 (2025) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 specific kind of quiet that exists after a disaster. Not the quiet of peace, but the quiet of shock. Li Yu’s After Typhoon understands this. It understands that the worst storms aren’t the ones that knock down your house, but the ones that take up residence inside you. This...

Film Review: Panda Plan 2: The Magical Tribe 熊猫计划之部落奇遇 (2026) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 There is a moment in “Panda Plan 2: The Magical Tribe” when Jackie Chan, seventy-two years young and still game as ever, dangles from a vine that glows with the earnest overkill of mid-tier CGI while a digitally rendered giant panda named Hu Hu pulls a face that suggests...

Film Review: Wish You Well 非传统浪漫关系 (2026) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 A bracingly honest anti-rom-com that knows love is a mess and likes it anyway. There’s a moment about forty minutes into Liang Wenzhe’s “Wish You Well” where Zhu Yanmanzi’s character, relationship blogger Zhu Junhao, catches herself actually feeling something real amid the chaos of her post-divorce experiment. The camera holds on...