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The Lee Legacy: A Counterfactual Analysis of How the Survival of Bruce and Brandon Lee Could Have Accelerated Asian American Representation in Hollywood By Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia)Film Critic, Festival Director & Founder, Neo Film Blog Support my paper by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support my paper by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com 9 May 2026 Author Bio Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) is a Hong Kong-based film critic, festival director, and founder of Neo Film Blog. Deeply passionate about Hong Kong and Asian cinema, he champions the region’s rich...

Film Review: Wish You Well 非传统浪漫关系 (2026) - China 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 bracingly honest anti-rom-com that knows love is a mess and likes it anyway. There’s a moment about forty minutes into Liang Wenzhe’s “Wish You Well” where Zhu Yanmanzi’s character, relationship blogger Zhu Junhao, catches herself actually feeling something real amid the chaos of her post-divorce experiment. The camera holds on...

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...