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Bangkok Love Stories: Plead (TV-2019) - Thailand   Netflix Season 1 - 13 episodes (40 minutes each) Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)   Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. Simple yet emotionally driven love stories are hard to come by and this Thai TV series supported by Netflix - “Bangkok Love Stories: Plead” is brilliant at what it wants to achieve and keeps the audience interested all the way till its finale. What I enjoyed about this series is the simplicity of human conditions and...

Pegasus 飞驰人生 (2019) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)   Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. The best parts of this inspiring sport drama is the likability of the characters that blends in 90s Hong Kong movies with Hollywood “Rocky” comeback charm to complete a rounded display of suitable emotions. Superstar blogger, car rally driver and filmmaker Han Han makes his third film and probably his most commercial yet. In turn we get a film that does not challenge conventions, but nor does it slip...

Murder Mystery (2019) - USA Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)   Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. Adam Sandler have been an overall Netflix venture disappointment and with an underwhelming expectation of the latest Netflix original - “Murder Mystery”, it’s a refreshing surprise. Matching up with Jennifer Aniston, the duo plays off each other in the best of old fashioned Hollywood comedy style. It works because both Sandler and Aniston have excellent chemistry and they are never overly indulgent on their respective self. Directed by...

Jo Pil-Ho: The Dawning Rage (2019) - South Korea   Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)   Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. One of my biggest concern with Lee Jeong-beom’s “Jo Pil-Ho: The Dawning Rage” is the allusion to a much greater tragedy namely the Sewol disaster that took the lives of 250 students from Danwon High School. The fact that Lee never focused on this tragedy, but instead made it a cameo backdrop to introduce a dead friend, speaks volume about the film and...

The Perfection (2019) - USA   Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)   Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. Inspired by Korean directors and most notably Park Chan Wook’s “Handmaiden”, director Richard Shepard combines these elements into a genre horror psychological thriller, dealing with child assault and abuse whilst blending in the essence of classical music and torture. The film goes through a number of phrases, namely a drama-like beginning that resembles “Black Swan” then takes a dramatic horror and gore twist in the fun of...