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Film Review: She’s Got No Name (Part 1) 园弄·悬案（上） (2025) - China / Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7/10 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 Hong Kong Veteran Director Peter Chan’s “She’s Got No Name (Part 1)” is the kind of film that arrives with serious intentions and a heavyweight cast, then spends two hours earnestly trying to earn its own running time. It mostly succeeds, but not without some...

Film Review: Every Dog Has Its Day 马腾你别走 (2026) - China 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 Most experienced viewers would have recognized a kindred spirit in Yue Yang's "Every Dog Has Its Day" — a film that understands the movies don't always need to shout to be heard. Here is a quiet Chinese drama about two men who have nothing in common except the quiet...

Film Review: Shaolin vs. Evil Dead: Ultimate Power 少林僵尸天极 (2006) - Hong Kong  Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 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 about the final moments into "Shaolin vs. Evil Dead: Ultimate Power" when Gordon Liu, one of the great living legends of martial arts cinema, kicks a hopping vampire so hard that the vampire actually pauses, looks down at its own chest, and seems to...

Film Review: Someone Like Me 像我這樣的愛情 (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 Here is a film that dares to ask a question most movies won't even whisper: What does desire look like when your body has been declared off-limits by a world that claims to care about you? Tam Wai-ching's "Someone Like Me" is not the weepy, uplift-for-the-able-bodied exercise its premise might...

HKIFF Film Review: Cyclone 超風 (2026) - Hong Kong Reviewed at the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2026 Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 8.5/10 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 There is a moment in Philip Yung's "Cyclone" when the title character, played with astonishing grace by Liu Yuqiao, looks into a mirror. She is alone. She touches her face—not with vanity, but with the careful deliberation of someone assembling a...