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Film Review: Troublesome Night 7 陰陽路柒撞到 (2000) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 certain charm to Hong Kong’s long-running Troublesome Night series, those scrappy little supernatural comedies that treat ghosts less like terrors from the grave and more like nosy neighbors who just won’t let the living get on with their MTV shoots. The seventh entry, Troublesome Night 7 (or Yin...

Film Review: Walk In 奪舍 (1997) - 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 In the gloriously chaotic world of mid-1990s Hong Kong cinema, where genres collide like cars in a freeway pileup, Herman Yau’s “Walk In” arrives as a supernatural body-swap comedy that never quite decides what it wants to be — and somehow that’s part of its scruffy charm. The premise is pure Category...

Film Review: Troublesome Night 6 陰陽路之兇周刊(1999) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 The Troublesome Night series has always been the cinematic equivalent of a late-night ghost story told over too many beers in a Hong Kong dai pai dong—sometimes silly, sometimes genuinely unnerving, and almost always uneven. By the time we reach the sixth installment (also known as Yin Yang Road: Murder Weekly), the...

Film Review: Breeze of July 七月好風 (2007) - 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 melancholy that clings to certain Hong Kong stories—the kind born not from grand tragedy, but from the quiet accumulation of small defeats, missed connections, and the long shadow of home. Stanley Tam’s debut feature Breeze of July captures this feeling with a gentle, unassuming sincerity that...

Film Review: Troublesome Night 5 陰陽路五之一見發財 (1999) - 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 something endearingly scrappy about the Troublesome Night series, those low-budget Hong Kong ghost stories that blend Cantonese slapstick, moral fables, and practical-effects scares the way a late-night street vendor mixes sweet and savory. “Troublesome Night 5”, the fifth entry in a franchise that would eventually stretch to 20 films,...