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Film Review: Mr. Zheng (Special Friend) 我最特别的朋友 (2025) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7/10 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 Finds a Melancholy Poetry in the Desert of Digital Fame - The most memorable shots in “Mr. Zheng” are not of its sweeping Gobi Desert vistas, but of its protagonist’s face in close-up. Zhang Songwen, an actor who can convey tectonic shifts of feeling with the slightest tremor of his...

Film Review: Nobody (金刚不坏) (2025) - 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 Chinese Director Li Wei’s “Nobody” is the kind of film that makes you wonder what might have been. It positions itself as a gritty, street-level fable of redemption, tinged with the vinegar of black comedy, but it cannot decide what it wants to be. The result is a curiously inert experience—a film that gestures...

Film Review: Fish Bone 鱼刺 (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 The Silent Sting of Growing Up - It is a rare and quiet agony, the kind “Fish Bone” so masterfully documents. This is not a film of grand gestures or sweeping melodrama, but of humid, cramped rooms and meals eaten in suffocating silence. Chinese Director Zhang Xuyu has crafted a piercingly intimate...

Film Review: A Gilded Game 獵金·遊戲 (2025) - Hong Kong / China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7/10 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 Herman Yau, a Hong Kong director who has built his name on bullet casings and bluster, turns his camera toward a more insidious kind of warfare in “A Gilded Game”. Here, the artillery is algorithmic, the trenches are trading floors, and the bloodshed is purely financial. While it...

Film Review: The Dumpling Queen 水饺皇后(2025) - Hong Kong / 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 Hong Kong Director Andrew Lau’s “The Dumpling Queen” is the kind of big-hearted, earnest biopic that feels both utterly familiar and undeniably effective. It chronicles the corporate ascent of Zang Jianhe, founder of the Wanchai Ferry dumpling empire, transforming her story into a soaring ode to maternal grit and...