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Film Review: Love Unto Waste 地下情 (1986) - Hong Kong [HKIFF45] Reviewed as part of 45th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2021 by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 14/365 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews   Coming out a year before the more acclaimed “Rouge”, director Stanley Kwan created a coming of age tragic romance in the highly underrated “Love Unto Waste”. Despite starring an now rated all-star cast in Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Irene Wan in leading roles, the film also is well supported by Chow Yun...

Guilt By Design 催眠·裁決 (2019) - Hong Kong 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. There is a lot to like and appreciate about the latest trio of directors’ (Lau Wing-Tai, Kenneth Lai and Paul Sze) efforts. Guilt By Design” is extremely well crafted psychological courtroom action thriller that engages you from start to the almost too sensationalised and over the top “Jackie Chan’s style” finale. Nick Cheung excels in the role of a professional hypnotist appointed to be a juror in...

Mad World (2016) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan Films about a people and unsung carers of mental health affected should be noted with bravery and an off hand compliment from the start. "Mad World" won most Hong Kong film awards and rightly deserved most of it. Largely realistically portrayed especially the mental health patients and the carers, debutant director Wong Chun managed to also fit in the social ills, cramped living places, high stressed work environment, selfishness of some religious people, the inapt public hospital system and how crazy the world of Hong Kong have become. These are...