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Film Review: Back to the Past 尋秦記 (2025) - 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 Some movies aren't really movies. They are time capsules, thrown into the sea twenty-four years ago, now washing back up on shore covered in barnacles and memories. "Back to the Past," the feature-film continuation of the beloved 2001 TVB series, is exactly that. It is less a piece of...

Film Review: Still Standing (2022) - Hong Kong / Italy / UK 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 The Sindhi Story, a Ghost That Refuses to Fade - There is a particular kind of sadness that comes from looking at a map and realizing the country you were born in no longer exists. For the Sindhi people, that map isn't just outdated; it's torn in half,...

Film Review: Obedience (十方之地) (2025) - 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.com A Stark Portrait of Hong Kong's Margins, Beautifully Seen Yet Distantly Felt - Hong Kong Director Wong Siu-pong's "Obedience" (十方之地) is a film that sees. It sees the cracked pavement and overflowing bins of Hong Kong's Hung Hom district. It sees the slow, deliberate labor of the elderly, bent like ancient trees, pushing...

Book Review: More Sex, Better Zen, Faster Bullets: The Encyclopedia of Hong Kong Film (2020) - by Mike Wilkins and Stefan Hammond Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 You hold in your hands not a book, but a stunt. A literary high-fall, performed without a net, landing in a crash of bullet casings, ghostly talismans, and shattered mahjong tiles. If the glorious, chaotic cinema of Hong...

Film Review: My Date with a Vampire 驅魔龍族馬小玲 (2025) - Hong Kong / China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 4/10 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 The undead walk among us once more, but this time, they shuffle with the weary gait of contractual obligation. “My Date with a Vampire (2025)”, a reboot of the beloved, gloriously messy 1998 ATV supernatural soap opera, arrives draped in the heavy velvet of nostalgia, only to reveal...