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Film Review: The Kung Fu Scholar 倫文敘老點柳先開 (1994) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 There is a particular pleasure in watching two young stars, still carrying the glow of their early fame, bounce off each other inside a period school comedy that never quite takes itself seriously. The Kung Fu Scholar is not a great film, but it is a cheerfully serviceable one...

Film Review: The Crucifixion 999誰是兇手 (1994) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 A stray dog walks into a police station. Not metaphorically. The animal simply appears, refuses to leave, and eventually leads two detectives into the hills, where they find a man nailed to a wooden cross. That opening image is so blunt and strange that it immediately announces The Crucifixion as something slightly...

Film Review: The Prodigal Son 敗家仔 (1981) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 There are films that teach you how to fight, and there are films that teach you why you must. Sammo Hung’s The Prodigal Son belongs firmly in the second category. Yuen Biao plays Leung Chang, the pampered only son of a wealthy Foshan merchant. His father has bought him...

Film Review: I Wanna Be Your Man!!! 神探磨轆 (1994) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 stubbornly likable about a movie that refuses to be neat. I Wanna Be Your Man!!!(1994) is a messy little Hong Kong comedy-drama that keeps changing its mind about what kind of film it wants to be, and somehow that restlessness becomes part of its charm....

Film Review: Kiss Me Goodbye 戀愛季節 (1986) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 particular kind of Hong Kong film from the mid-1980s that feels like it was shot between breaths—light on its feet, slightly melancholy, and completely uninterested in the usual melodrama of young love. Kiss Me Goodbye is one of those films. Calvin Poon Yuen-leung’s directorial debut is a...