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The Storm Riders 風雲雄霸天下 (1998) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below.   Fresh off the gangster cult following of the commercially successful “Young and Dangerous” series, Andrew Lau teams up with Ekin Cheng and the rest of the cast to film the comic book inspired “The Storm Riders”. The film will go on to be a major box office hit, aided by two big stars in Aaron Kwok and Sonny Chiba. Watching “The Storm Riders” again, after...

The Driver (2019) - USA / Thailand Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. Hot on the heels of Mark Dacascos rise to fame in “John Wick 3”, came a low budget zombie action drama “The Driver”, starring Dacascos, his real life wife (played by Julie Condra and his daughter (played by Noelani Dacascos). Unfortunately for his fans, there is very little actual martial arts on display and adding to the fact that it is directed by Wych Kaosayananda whose resume...

Heroes (Fearless) 大俠霍元甲 (2020) - TV Series - China Season 1 - 45 episodes (45 minutes each)   Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. Vincent Zhao returns as famed legendary martial arts legend at the turn of the century as Master Fok Yuen Gaap (aka Huo Yuan Jia) in one of the best martial arts TV series produced for a long time. Zhao produces a career defining performance that will most likely elevate him to closer status of fame as...

One Night in Bangkok (2020) - USA Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. We all enjoyed Mark Dacascos’s best performance in his career in “John Wick 3” and in the action revenge thriller “One Night in Bangkok” gets to play an older man out for vengeance on the back of the death of her daughter family in Bangkok. Director Wych Kaosayananda whose action packed resume included “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever”, most often voted as the worst film of the decade,...

#Alive 살아있다 Saraitda (2020) - South Korea [Netflix] Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. Let’s just say that “Alive” should have been the “Train to Busan” sequel rather than the boring “Peninsula”. Although that’s not saying much when compared to the critically dud, this Netflix’s attempt to rehash the Korean zombie genre is insanely exciting, fun, engaging and even tense to watch. Director Cho Il-hyung manages to craft the film in three excellent act, the first to set the tone...