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Film Review: Zootopia 2 動物方城市2 (2025) - 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 A Worthy, If Familiar, Follow-up - Nearly a decade after the original charmed audiences with its clever allegory and buddy-cop verve, “Zootopia 2” returns to the mammalian metropolis. The result is a sequel that feels both comfortably familiar and impressively polished—a sleek, high-speed train of a film that follows its predecessor’s tracks...

Film Review: Little Red Sweet 紅豆 (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 A Taste of Memory, A Slice of Home - “Little Red Sweet” is a film of gentle hands. Hands that sort red beans with a lifelong patience. Hands that stir a simmering pot in a rhythm passed down through generations. And hands that reluctantly, inevitably, must let go. In his...

Film Review: A Gilded Game 獵金·遊戲 (2025) - Hong Kong / China 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 Herman Yau, a Hong Kong director who has built his name on bullet casings and bluster, turns his camera toward a more insidious kind of warfare in “A Gilded Game”. Here, the artillery is algorithmic, the trenches are trading floors, and the bloodshed is purely financial. While it...

Film Review: Smashing Frank 搗破法蘭克 (2025) - 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 “Smashing Frank” is the kind of film that feels urgently of its moment—a pixelated scream into the Hong Kong night, fueled by righteous anger and the adrenaline of a generation told to sit down and shut up. Hong Kong Director Trevor Choi has crafted a neon-splashed, anarchic heist flick that is less...

Film Review: The Dumpling Queen 水饺皇后(2025) - Hong Kong / 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 Hong Kong Director Andrew Lau’s “The Dumpling Queen” is the kind of big-hearted, earnest biopic that feels both utterly familiar and undeniably effective. It chronicles the corporate ascent of Zang Jianhe, founder of the Wanchai Ferry dumpling empire, transforming her story into a soaring ode to maternal grit and...