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Film Review: Love: Amoeba Style 愛情Amoeba (1997) - 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 In the flickering neon glow of mid-90s Hong Kong, where the city itself pulses like a restless heart between towering ambition and quiet longing, Love: Amoeba Style arrives as a tender, unassuming gem. Shu Kei’s ensemble comedy does not shout; it murmurs truths about friendship, desire, and the slippery shapes...

Film Review: Girlfriends 女孩不平凡 (2025) - Hong Kong / Macau / Taiwan 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 In Tracy Choi’s tender triptych Girlfriends, time folds like memory itself—unspooling backward through a woman’s life, revealing the quiet revolutions of love, identity, and self-discovery across Macau, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. This is not a film that shouts its ambitions; it whispers them with the intimacy of a...

Film Review: A Man and a Woman 一个男人和一个女人 (2026) - China / 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 In the spring of 2021, when the world felt suspended in amber, two ordinary travelers found themselves adrift in Hong Kong. Their flights had brought them this far, but the quarantine rules pinned them in place: side-by-side hotel rooms, thin walls, and 21 days of enforced...

Film Review: Blades of the Guardians 鏢人：風起大漠 (2026) - Hong Kong / China 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 are moments in the cinema when the screen ceases to be a rectangle of light and becomes a portal to another world — windswept deserts, flashing blades, and the weight of destiny pressing down on mortal shoulders. Yuen Woo-ping’s Blades of the Guardians is one such...

Film Review: Finch & Midland 今天應該很高興 (2025) - Hong Kong / Canada 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 quiet power in stories that refuse to shout. Timothy Yeung’s debut feature Finch & Midlanddoes not offer easy catharsis or triumphant Hollywood arcs. Instead, it sits with its characters in the modest apartments and strip-mall corners of Scarborough’s Finch and Midland intersection—the beating heart of...