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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...

Film Review: The Grandmaster 一代宗師 (2013) - Hong Kong / China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 10/10 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 A Masterpiece of Time, Loss, and Motion - There are films you watch, and films that watch you back. Wong Kar-wai’s “The Grandmaster” is the latter. Upon its initial release, it was often framed—and marketed—as a biographical action film about Ip Man, the martial arts master who taught...

Film Review: Unexpected Family 過家家 (2026) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 9/10 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 Jackie Chan has spent sixty years risking his neck for our amusement. He has jumped from moving trains, dangled from helicopter skids, and rolled down mountainsides encased in a bamboo cage. He is, without question, one of the most physically gifted performers in the history of cinema. But at 72, he...

Film Review: Hong Boxing 百家拳之洪拳(2020) - China 🇨🇳 Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 09/365 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews   Director Li Lian Jun is another Chinese filmmaker heavily influenced by Hong Kong 90s martial arts cinema. In “Hong Boxing”, Li recreates the Wong Fei Hung universe with a back story focused on his famed pork butcher student - “Lam Sai Wing”. Many Hong Kong cinema fans will recall Sammo Hung’s “Magnificent Butcher”, but this film is far from that level, it is simply a...