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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...

Film Review: Reckoning Day 清算 (2025) - 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 Gritty, Gut-Punch Vengeance Tale Anchored by a Star-Making Turn - Leave your wuxia fantasies at the door. Chinese Director Chen Liyang’s “Reckoning Day” arrives not with the balletic grace of soaring swordsmen, but with the brutal thud of a brick to the temple and the sharp crack of bone on concrete....

Film Review: Love Is Hard 情圣3 (2025) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 6.5/10 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 Greasy Takeout for the Marriage-Weary Soul - Chinese Director Dong Xu’s "Love Is Hard" arrives not with the fanfare of a masterpiece, but with the clatter of dropped dishes and the weary sigh of a couple debating whose turn it is to take out the trash. It is, as advertised, a "grounded...

Film Review: Row To Win 浪浪人生 (2025) - 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 Finding Dignity in the Pull of the Oar. “Row To Win" arrives not with a roar, but with the quiet, persistent slap of water against wood. Director Ma Lin crafts a bittersweet family dramedy, Han Han’s signature dry wit sanding down the harsh edges of debt, illness, and faded dreams. It’s...