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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...

Film Review: She’s Got No Name (Part 1) 园弄·悬案（上） (2025) - China / Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong Veteran Director Peter Chan’s “She’s Got No Name (Part 1)” is the kind of film that arrives with serious intentions and a heavyweight cast, then spends two hours earnestly trying to earn its own running time. It mostly succeeds, but not without some...

Film Review: Every Dog Has Its Day 马腾你别走 (2026) - 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 Most experienced viewers would have recognized a kindred spirit in Yue Yang's "Every Dog Has Its Day" — a film that understands the movies don't always need to shout to be heard. Here is a quiet Chinese drama about two men who have nothing in common except the quiet...