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Film Review: Once Upon a Time in China 黃飛鴻 (Wong Fei Hung) (1991) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 10/10 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 films that entertain, films that dazzle, and then there are films that feel like a thunderclap from the past, reminding us why we fell in love with cinema in the first place. Tsui Hark’s Once Upon a Time in China (1991) is...

Film Review: Gimme Gimme 愛上我吧 (2001) - 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 There is a particular ache that belongs to youth, the kind that arrives when friendship and desire collide in the same crowded room. Lawrence Ah Mon’s Gimme Gimme understands that ache intimately, and for long stretches it captures it with honesty and tenderness rare in teen romances. This is not the...

Film Review: Lai Shi, China’s Last Eunuch (Last Eunuch in China) 中國最後一個太監 (1988) - 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 There is a quiet tragedy at the heart of “Lai Shi, China’s Last Eunuch,” a 1988 Hong Kong film that understands how history can render a man’s greatest sacrifice meaningless. Young Lai Shi (Max Mok), born into rural poverty in the dying days of...

Film Review: Operation Scorpio 蠍子戰士 (1992) - Hong Kong 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.com In the bustling, neon-soaked chaos of early 1990s Hong Kong cinema, where wire-fu was reaching new poetic heights and martial arts films danced between comedy and carnage, Operation Scorpio (also known as The Scorpion King in the west) emerges as a delightful underdog tale that punches well above its weight. Director...

Film Review: Sleazy Dizzy 小偷阿星 (1990) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 6.5/10 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.com There is a peculiar charm to early pre-superstar Stephen Chow vehicles like Sleazy Dizzy, a film that feels caught between the stylish crime pictures of the ‘80s and the full-blown mo lei tau absurdity that would later make Chow a Hong Kong superstar. Directed by the veteran Chor Yuen, whose career spanned...