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Film Review: Blades of the Guardians 鏢人：風起大漠 (2026) - Hong Kong / China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 There are moments in the cinema when the screen ceases to be a rectangle of light and becomes a portal to another world — windswept deserts, flashing blades, and the weight of destiny pressing down on mortal shoulders. Yuen Woo-ping’s Blades of the Guardians is one such...

Film Review: Double Happiness 雙囍 (2026) - Taiwan Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 8.5/10 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.comIn the realm of wedding comedies, where chaos is usually confined to drunken toasts and missing rings, Joseph Chen-Chieh Hsu’s “Double Happiness” (雙囍) dares something more ambitious and humane. It takes the familiar farce of a big day gone wrong and layers it with the deeper fractures of divorce, parental ego, childhood wounds,...

Film Review: Finch & Midland 今天應該很高興 (2025) - Hong Kong / Canada Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 There is a quiet power in stories that refuse to shout. Timothy Yeung’s debut feature Finch & Midlanddoes not offer easy catharsis or triumphant Hollywood arcs. Instead, it sits with its characters in the modest apartments and strip-mall corners of Scarborough’s Finch and Midland intersection—the beating heart of...

Film Review: Lan Kwai Fong 喜愛夜蒲 (2011) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 Lan Kwai Fong isn’t just a street in Hong Kong; it’s a state of mind — neon-drenched, bass-thumping, and alive with the restless energy of youth chasing connection in the small hours. Wilson Chin’s 2011 film Lan Kwai Fong (or LKF) dives headfirst into that world with the giddy enthusiasm...

Film Review: High K 街女 (2000) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 In the raw, neon-soaked underbelly of late-90s Hong Kong, where the old ways of family and duty collide with the chaotic pull of the streets, comes High K—a film that pulses with the familiar energy of Category III-edged drama while anchoring itself in something deeper: the fractured bond between a father...