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Film Review: Busted Water Pipes 爆水管 (2026) - ChinaReviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 A Refreshing Splash that Eventually Springs a Leak. No good movie is too long, and no bad movie is short enough. “Busted Water Pipes” is neither great nor terrible, yet at a bloated 132 minutes, it overstays its welcome by roughly a reel, drowning in one too many mistaken-identity routines that go from...

Film Review: Pass and Goal 逆轉上半場 (2025) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 a moment in “Pass and Goal” when Fong Hay-man (Gigi Leung), once a high-flying financial consultant, now crammed into a Sham Shui Po walk-up after a crypto-related crash, watches a pack of neighborhood kids kicking a worn ball against a chain-link fence. She is not yet their coach....

Film Review: Private Life (aka Miss Hong Kong) 香港小姐寫真 (1987) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 intoxicating about the glossy, overheated melodramas that poured out of Hong Kong in the 1980s, and Private Life is a prime specimen. It understands that its audience wants beauty, romance, betrayal, and a dash of legal fireworks, all wrapped in that particular Cantonese...

Film Review: Angry Ranger 火爆浪子 (1991) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 In the bustling, neon-soaked underbelly of early 1990s Hong Kong cinema, where heroes kicked first and asked questions later, Angry Ranger arrives like a well-timed roundhouse to the ribs—brutal, efficient, and strangely satisfying. Directed by Johnny Wang Lung-Wei, the Shaw Brothers veteran whose on-screen villainy once made audiences hiss with delight,...

Film Review: War of the Underworld洪興仔 之 江湖大風暴 (1996) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 In the roaring mid-1990s, Hong Kong cinema discovered that nothing sells quite like young men in sharp suits wielding machetes and nursing broken codes of honor. Herman Yau’s War of the Underworld (original title Hung Hing Zai Ji Jiang Hu Da Feng Bao) arrives as a lean, furious...