News — Hong Kong Film

Film Review: Tian Di 天與地 (Chinese Untouchables) (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 kind of sadness that only Hong Kong cinema of the early 1990s could deliver with such clean, unflinching precision. Tian Di is not a film that asks you to feel good. It asks you to watch a decent man try to do the right thing...

Film Review: Changing Partner 夜夜伴肥嬌 (1992) - 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 appealing about watching two people who can’t stand each other get locked in a room together until the universe forces them to notice the other person has a pulse. Changing Partner knows this formula cold and plays it with the cheerful confidence of a film that has...

Film Review: Cause We Are Young 求戀期(1997) - 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 In Cause We Are Young (《求戀期》, 1997), director Vincent Kok Tak-chiu captures that fleeting, electric moment when youth collides with the bewildering maze of modern romance. Like a Cantonese cousin to those early-90s ensemble comedies that balanced screwball energy with genuine heart, this film doesn’t pretend to reinvent the wheel...

Film Review: Midnight Girls 午夜麗人 (1986) - 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 certain neon-soaked poetry in the way 1980s Hong Kong cinema captured the restless pulse of a city in transition—the glittering promise of wealth brushing against the grit of survival, where dreams are as fragile as the sequins on a nightclub dress. David Lai’s Midnight Girls (also known as...

Film Review: Once Upon a Time in China III 黃飛鴻之三獅王爭霸 (1992) - 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 In the grand tradition of Hong Kong cinema’s golden age, where history and myth collide in balletic fury, Tsui Hark delivers another thunderous chapter in the Wong Fei-hung saga with Once Upon a Time in China III. If the first two films were bold declarations...