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Chief of Staff (TV-2019) - South Korea   Season 1 - 10 episodes (1 hour 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. This is one of the best political drama to come out of Korea in recent years and like “House of Cards”, we see the rise of a well-meaning nobody to the climbing of a political ladder that often means disregarding all principles and means to achieve an end. The moral dilemma is what makes the series interesting...

Bangkok Love Stories: Plead (TV-2019) - Thailand   Netflix Season 1 - 13 episodes (40 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. Simple yet emotionally driven love stories are hard to come by and this Thai TV series supported by Netflix - “Bangkok Love Stories: Plead” is brilliant at what it wants to achieve and keeps the audience interested all the way till its finale. What I enjoyed about this series is the simplicity of human conditions and...

Shaft (2019) - 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. Samuel L Jackson (the 2000’s remake “Shaft”) and Richard Roundtree (the original 1970s “Shaft”) makes a welcome presence in the latest Netflix reboot of the Blaxploitation classic that created the first black action hero in the form of Roundtree. Directed by Tim Story, “Shaft” plays within its own trapping, it’s own characters and ultimately their own material. It is a hit and miss kind of film as some moments...

Welcome to Marven (2018) - 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. Director Robert Zemeckis of “Forest Gump” and “The Walk” takes on the real life event of “Marvencol”, a tale of how man suffers from post trauma disorder after a brutal attack leaving him almost at the death bed. In turn, Marven created a world called Marvencol” blurring the boundaries of reality and fiction. What I enjoyed about the film is enjoyable understated performance of Steve Carrell and...

The Great Battle (2018) - South Korea 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. It’s South Korean cinema’s turn to go epic with the “The Great Battle”, directed by Kim Kwong-shik, the film revoked memories of the great battles scenes in John Woo’s “Red Cliff” and Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings”. The film is loosely based on the Year 600s period when the three Korean kingdoms are at war and the Chinese Tang’s Emperor Taizong took advantage of this...