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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...

Film Review: Vital Signs 送院途中 (2025) - 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 The Pulse of a City in the Back of an Ambulance - Forget the high-octane rescue fantasies the marketing might hint at. “Vital Signs” is something far more resonant, far more human. Hong Kong Director Vincci Cheuk offers not a thrill ride, but a quiet, often melancholic character study, using the...

Film Review: Good Game 觸電 (2025) - 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 A Pixelated Heart Finds Its Beat - There's a certain charm to a film that knows its limitations and plays within them with infectious enthusiasm. "Good Game" (觸電) is precisely that – a scrappy, low-budget Hong Kong sports dramedy set in the neon-lit world of competitive gaming. It doesn't rewrite the...

Film Review: Greenland 2: Migration 末世綠洲2：絕地遷徙 (2026) - USA / UK 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 A Bone-Chilling Descent into the Long Aftermath - “Greenland 2: Migration" understands something crucial that eludes most disaster sequels: sometimes, the true terror begins after the apocalypse. American Director Ric Roman Waugh wisely jettisons the bigger, louder, flashier mandate, trading the first film's frantic, globe-trotting escape for a grim,...