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Film Review: Reunion 手足情深 (2002) - 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.comThere are films that entertain us, and then there are films that reach into the chest and squeeze the heart until the tears come whether we want them or not. Chung Shu-kai’s Reunion belongs firmly in the second category — a sincere, old-fashioned melodrama about family, loss, and the stubborn endurance of...

Film Review: 100 Ways to Murder Your Wife 殺妻二人組 (1986) - 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 There are movies that feel like they were made in a fever dream after too many drinks at the pub, and then there’s “100 Ways to Murder Your Wife,” a cheerfully demented Hong Kong comedy that takes the Hitchcock premise of “Strangers on a Train” and drags it...

Film Review: The Nobles 單身貴族 (1989) - 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 There is something disarmingly honest about a romantic comedy that doesn’t pretend its characters have life all figured out. “The Nobles,” a buoyant 1989 Hong Kong film directed by Norman Chan (also known as Chan Hok-yan), understands that the real comedy—and the real drama—of modern urban life lies in the gap between what...

Film Review: Guns of Dragon 虎穴屠龍之轟天陷阱 (1993) - 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 something irresistibly alive about certain Hong Kong action pictures from the early ‘90s, those scrappy, high-octane B-movies that didn’t always have the budget of a John Woo epic but compensated with sheer audacity and streetwise energy. “Guns of Dragon” is one of those films. It doesn’t reinvent the...

Film Review: Return Engagement 再戰江湖 (1990) - 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 There is a moment late in “Return Engagement” when the camera lingers on Alan Tang’s weathered face as he steps out of prison after twenty years, the Vancouver sky gray and indifferent above him. In that single, unhurried beat, the film announces what it truly is: not just another bullet ballet...