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Film Review: Vital Signs 送院途中 (2025) - 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 The Pulse of a City in the Back of an Ambulance - Forget the high-octane rescue fantasies the marketing might hint at. “Vital Signs” is something far more resonant, far more human. Hong Kong Director Vincci Cheuk offers not a thrill ride, but a quiet, often melancholic character study, using the...

Film Review: Good Game 觸電 (2025) - 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 A Pixelated Heart Finds Its Beat - There's a certain charm to a film that knows its limitations and plays within them with infectious enthusiasm. "Good Game" (觸電) is precisely that – a scrappy, low-budget Hong Kong sports dramedy set in the neon-lit world of competitive gaming. It doesn't rewrite the...

Film Review: 2046 (2004) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 Twenty-two years later, Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 no longer feels like a sequel; it feels like a haunting. To call it a follow-up to In the Mood for Love is technically correct, but emotionally insufficient. If that film was the ache of a secret kept—the exquisite torture of a love too pure to...

Film Review: The Grandmaster 一代宗師 (2013) - Hong Kong / China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 A Masterpiece of Time, Loss, and Motion - There are films you watch, and films that watch you back. Wong Kar-wai’s “The Grandmaster” is the latter. Upon its initial release, it was often framed—and marketed—as a biographical action film about Ip Man, the martial arts master who taught...

Film Review: Unexpected Family 過家家 (2026) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 Jackie Chan has spent sixty years risking his neck for our amusement. He has jumped from moving trains, dangled from helicopter skids, and rolled down mountainsides encased in a bamboo cage. He is, without question, one of the most physically gifted performers in the history of cinema. But at 72, he...