News — Julian Cheung

All's Well, End's Well 2020 家有囍事2020 (2020) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)   Help me reach one review per day in 2021.  https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Buy me a coffee ☕️ or two to support our Asian cinema film reviews since 2004! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog   ews since 2004!   One of the most enjoyable aspect of Raymond Wong revisiting his most successful franchise, is the sheer mindless entertainment factor into the whole film experience. It is a formula that tried and true and served Wong extremely well over the past decades. In fact, the evergreen veteran takes in the...

L Storm L風暴 (2018) - Hong Kong / China   Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)     It is probably as generic as it gets in terms of the latest “Storm” series and ICAC promotional cinematic piece. Director David Lam whose only notable films in the past decades are “Z Storm” and “S Storm”, continues this tradition with a tag on patriotic ending that is in line with the Chinese government stance on anti corruption. Ignoring this aspect, the film is quite solid if never spectacular from the direction to film editing to the casts. Once...

The Leakers 洩密者們 (2018) - Hong Kong     Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)   Prolific director Herman Yau starts his 2018 with action investigative thriller in “The Leakers”. Largely filmed in Malaysia, the film is an interesting and though provoking that challenges the big pharmaceutical companies and comments on the wiki leaks in similar fashion. We get a similar trio cast from “Line Walker” with Julian Cheung, Francis Ng and Charmaine Sheh playing key roles. It goes to show how important an interesting and entertaining plot is as it’s light years ahead of their previous...