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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...

Film Review: The Owl vs Bombo 貓頭鷹與小飛象 (1984) - Hong Kong Reviewed 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 ramshackle charmer that never quite finds its rhythm. There is a moment in “The Owl vs Bombo” when Sammo Hung, that human fireplug of Cantonese cinema, finds himself leading a tap-dance routine with Deanie Ip. It lasts perhaps ninety seconds. He wears a goofy grin. His feet move with...

Film Review: The Lord of Hangzhou 杭州王爺 (1998) - 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 quiet moment midway through The Lord of Hangzhou when Tse Kwan-Ho, playing the once-wealthy Mi Qi, sits on a riverbank beneath the moonlight with nothing left but a straw hat and the weight of his own folly. For just a breath, the film lowers its voice and...

Film Review: Panda Plan 2: The Magical Tribe 熊猫计划之部落奇遇 (2026) - China 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 in “Panda Plan 2: The Magical Tribe” when Jackie Chan, seventy-two years young and still game as ever, dangles from a vine that glows with the earnest overkill of mid-tier CGI while a digitally rendered giant panda named Hu Hu pulls a face that suggests...