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Film Review: Troublesome Night 3 陰陽路之升棺發財 (1998) - 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 There is something endearingly chaotic about Hong Kong horror-comedy, a genre that refuses to choose between giggles and goosebumps. Troublesome Night 3 (1998), the third installment in the long-running Yin Yang Road series, dives headfirst into that delightful mess and emerges with more hits than misses. A solid thumbs up...

Film Review: Troublesome Night 2 陰陽路II之我在你左右 (1997) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 6/10 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.comThere is something endearingly chaotic about Hong Kong horror-comedy from the late 1990s. These films don’t chase prestige; they chase the midnight audience with a mix of ghost stories, slapstick, and moral lectures delivered at full volume. “Troublesome Night 2” (1997), the second installment in what would become a ridiculously long-running series,...

Film Review: Troublesome Night 陰陽路 (1997) - Hong Kong 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 In the bustling, neon-soaked streets of late-90s Hong Kong, where the living and the dead seem to share the same crowded sidewalks, comes Troublesome Night — a scrappy, spirited anthology that blends ghost stories with broad comedy in a way that feels utterly, unapologetically Cantonese. This is not prestige horror. You...

Film Review: Voyage 遊 (2013) - Hong Kong 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 There is a quiet courage in films that stare directly into the abyss of depression and suicide without flinching or offering easy comforts. “Voyage,” the 2013 feature from Hong Kong director Scud, possesses that courage in abundance. It is not always easy to watch, nor is it always successful in its ambitions, but...

Film Review: Love Actually… Sucks! 愛很爛 (2011) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 5.5/10 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 early in Scud’s “Love Actually… Sucks!” when a wedding celebration, brimming with the usual Hong Kong banquet excess, curdles into something far darker. It is the sort of tonal pivot that announces the film’s intentions: this will not be a cheerful valentine. Instead, it is an anti-romance,...