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Film Review: The Sun Rises on Us All 日掛中天 (2025) - China 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 kind of quiet devastation in Cai Shangjun’s The Sun Rises on Us All. It does not arrive with grand declarations or swelling music. It settles in slowly, like humidity in a southern Chinese summer, until you realize you have been breathing it the whole...

Film Review: Left-Handed Girl 左撇子女孩 (2025) - Taiwan Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 9/10 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 moment early in Left-Handed Girl when a little girl is told, quite calmly, that her left hand belongs to the devil. The words are spoken without theatrical malice, almost as a piece of inherited household wisdom. And yet they land with the force of a curse. From that point...

Film Review: The Crucifixion 999誰是兇手 (1994) - 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 A stray dog walks into a police station. Not metaphorically. The animal simply appears, refuses to leave, and eventually leads two detectives into the hills, where they find a man nailed to a wooden cross. That opening image is so blunt and strange that it immediately announces The Crucifixion as something slightly...

Film Review: The Prodigal Son 敗家仔 (1981) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 9/10 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 are films that teach you how to fight, and there are films that teach you why you must. Sammo Hung’s The Prodigal Son belongs firmly in the second category. Yuen Biao plays Leung Chang, the pampered only son of a wealthy Foshan merchant. His father has bought him...

Film Review: I Wanna Be Your Man!!! 神探磨轆 (1994) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 There is something stubbornly likable about a movie that refuses to be neat. I Wanna Be Your Man!!!(1994) is a messy little Hong Kong comedy-drama that keeps changing its mind about what kind of film it wants to be, and somehow that restlessness becomes part of its charm....