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Film Review: The Prodigal Son 敗家仔 (1981) - 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 There are films that teach you how to fight, and there are films that teach you why you must. Sammo Hung’s The Prodigal Son belongs firmly in the second category. Yuen Biao plays Leung Chang, the pampered only son of a wealthy Foshan merchant. His father has bought him...

Film Review: I Wanna Be Your Man!!! 神探磨轆 (1994) - 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 likable about a movie that refuses to be neat. I Wanna Be Your Man!!!(1994) is a messy little Hong Kong comedy-drama that keeps changing its mind about what kind of film it wants to be, and somehow that restlessness becomes part of its charm....

Film Review: Kiss Me Goodbye 戀愛季節 (1986) - 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 particular kind of Hong Kong film from the mid-1980s that feels like it was shot between breaths—light on its feet, slightly melancholy, and completely uninterested in the usual melodrama of young love. Kiss Me Goodbye is one of those films. Calvin Poon Yuen-leung’s directorial debut is a...

Film Review: Shogun and Little Kitchen 伙頭福星 (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 There are films that arrive like fireworks and films that arrive like a home-cooked meal. Shogun and Little Kitchen is the second kind. It does not try to dazzle you with spectacle or lecture you with importance. It simply invites you in, pulls out a chair, and asks...

Film Review: Home at Hong Kong 家在香港 (1983) - 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 There is a particular ache that belongs only to young people who believe the city will reward them if they just want it badly enough. Home at Hong Kong understands that ache completely. Andy Lau, still boyish and hungry in 1983, plays Alan Wong, a cosmetics salesman who fails...