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Film Review: Golden Boy 金童 (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's a moment in “Golden Boy" when Cheung Lek—Louis Cheung's washed-up, newly paroled boxer—looks at his ten-year-old son across a book launch. The kid doesn't know who he is. Cheung doesn't know what to say. And for a beat, the movie stops being a sports drama and becomes something rawer: two...

Film Review: Once We Were Us 만약에 우리 後來的我們 (2025) - South Korea Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 Two People Who Can't Find the Same Page - I have always said that movies are empathy machines. Kim Do-young's "Once We Were Us" works that machine overtime, grinding gears against each other until you feel every spark and every stall. This Korean remake of Rene Liu’s...

Film Review: Michael 米高積遜 (2026) - USA 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 You want to know what it’s like to watch Michael Jackson spin, kick, and grab his crotch on the big screen? It’s like mainlining pure pop euphoria. Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael” has sequences—the Thriller breakdown, the Smooth Criminal lean—that are so electrically alive they remind you why concert films were invented. But then the...

Film Review: Happy Din Don 歡樂叮噹 (1986) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 6/10 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 Transplant That Takes, But Doesn’t Quite Root — There’s a moment about halfway through Michael Hui’s (許冠文) “Happy Din Don” when our hero—sweating under a wig, wobbling on heels, trying to keep his voice from cracking into a baritone—exchanges a look with the camera that says, “Yes, I know exactly...

Film Review: City of Glass 玻璃之城 (1998) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 moment in Mabel Cheung's "City of Glass" that stopped me cold. Shu Qi, playing Vivien across two decades of Hong Kong's most turbulent history, stands before a rain-streaked window. She doesn't speak. She doesn't weep. She simply touches the glass, and in that single gesture, Cheung captures...