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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...

Fong Sai Yuk: The Beginning (新方世玉前传侠者无畏) (2020) - China As part of the ongoing Film Critics - Martial Arts series - “Discovering the world of Martial Arts cinema” Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. With big boots to fill, the latest reboot of folk legend hero “Fong Sai Yuk”, made famous by Jet Li and Vincent Zhao in the 90s, it’s probably timely that the Chinese streaming giant takes an interest. Casting the fairly uncharismatic Narisu Bai in the title...

Review: Eternal Wave 密战 (2017) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. Aaron Kwok headlines the 1930s Shanghai fight between the Communist party and the Japanese pending invasion in “Eternal Wave”. Like many of these similar themed movies, the story is similar only this time, we are talking about the importance of radio waves transmission as the only means of communication for the fight of the Communist party members. The film lack strong characters for the audience to relate...