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Film Review: Finch & Midland 今天應該很高興 (2025) - Hong Kong / Canada 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 quiet power in stories that refuse to shout. Timothy Yeung’s debut feature Finch & Midlanddoes not offer easy catharsis or triumphant Hollywood arcs. Instead, it sits with its characters in the modest apartments and strip-mall corners of Scarborough’s Finch and Midland intersection—the beating heart of...

Film Review: Lan Kwai Fong 喜愛夜蒲 (2011) - 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 Lan Kwai Fong isn’t just a street in Hong Kong; it’s a state of mind — neon-drenched, bass-thumping, and alive with the restless energy of youth chasing connection in the small hours. Wilson Chin’s 2011 film Lan Kwai Fong (or LKF) dives headfirst into that world with the giddy enthusiasm...

Film Review: High K 街女 (2000) - 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 In the raw, neon-soaked underbelly of late-90s Hong Kong, where the old ways of family and duty collide with the chaotic pull of the streets, comes High K—a film that pulses with the familiar energy of Category III-edged drama while anchoring itself in something deeper: the fractured bond between a father...

Film Review: Once Upon a Time in China 黃飛鴻 (Wong Fei Hung) (1991) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 There are films that entertain, films that dazzle, and then there are films that feel like a thunderclap from the past, reminding us why we fell in love with cinema in the first place. Tsui Hark’s Once Upon a Time in China (1991) is...

Film Review: Gimme Gimme 愛上我吧 (2001) - 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 ache that belongs to youth, the kind that arrives when friendship and desire collide in the same crowded room. Lawrence Ah Mon’s Gimme Gimme understands that ache intimately, and for long stretches it captures it with honesty and tenderness rare in teen romances. This is not the...