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The Private Life (2018) - 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. What makes director Tamara Jenkins’s “The Private Life” different from most genre films on IVF is her ability to capture the real struggles, difficulties and toil on relationships and those around them. Capturing the film mostly centred on two struggling couple (played naturally by Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti in the midst of New York provides an excellent backdrop for an unsatisfying yet satisfying experience. Having...

Triple Threat (2019) - USA / 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. What is so exciting about “Triple Threat” is the “wow” factor of having the equivalent dream cast of “Asian Expendables” in Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Tiger Chen, Celina Jade and add on that with B-List Hollywood action stars Michael Jai White and Scott Adkins. With Chinese investment, Director Jesse Johnson gets his biggest budget to date to blow out some real action scenes. The story is...

HKIFF43 Festival Report 2019 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. (Our resident Chief Film Critic represents the Film Critics Circle of Australia at the opening of 43HKIFF) Day 1 - 18 March 2019   Opening Ceremony (Image courtesy of HKIFF) The 43rd edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival kicks off with much fanfare as Hong Kong superstar and film festival ambassador Aaron Kwok and youth ambassadors Jennifer Yu and Neo Yau leads the carpet with the director Renny Harlin...

Dear Ex 誰先愛上他的 (2018) - Taiwan   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. Netflix’ original “Dear Ex” is a deeply affecting tale of how one reacts and adapt to the death of their once loved ones. What complicated the matter is that the late father, the husband and gay partner is the same person (played by  in true stoic form by Spark Chen). In return we get an intriguing look into how different people deals with grief, anger, understanding and...

Vice 為副不仁 (2018) - 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. After depicting the 2008 financial crisis in “The Big Short”, Director Adam McKay takes on a bigger fish in the form of the most powerful Vice President in US political history - Dick Cheney. “Vice” is the kind of political drama that is also one that is concentrated on human morality, human condition and survival of the fittest. Christian Bale is absolutely spot on as the quiet yet...