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Annabelle Comes Home (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. This is a creepy entry to the long lasting horror supernatural franchise. What made this film works better than other “Annabelle” is the fact that we get all the “evils” in one basement together to set the tone for a truly spooky atmosphere. First time Director Gary Dauberma (previously wrote the screenplay for the past two “Annabelle” and “The Nun”) excels in pacing the tense moments and...

Last Letter 你好，之华 (2018) - China / Japan   Director’s Cut version - 137 minutes 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. Directed by veteran Japanese filmmaker Shunji Iwai in his Chinese language debut comes a slow burner that revokes his film “Love Letter” whilst staying true to his usual themes of love, lost and the conflicts of adulthood and nativeness of youth. Produced by the evergreen hopeless romantic Hong Kong’s Peter Chan, “Last Letter” is every bit the melodrama framed to...

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (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. The ninth film in Quentin Tarantino’s chartered filmography comes a classic approach to film making in a homage to Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West”, all those Spaghetti Westerns and to the Manson’s murders. The 1960s and 70s remains a period of time that Tarantino clearly enjoyed and embraced as if he wanted to experience that unique era in Hollywood...

The White Storm 2 - Drug Lords 掃毒2天地對決 (2019) - Hong Kong / China   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. In terms of over the top and ridiculous entertainment fun, few can top Benny Chan’s “The White Storm”. The sequel directed by Herman Yau is equally bombastic, except it uses Hong Kong rather than Thailand for its most impactful action display in the midst of the business centre of Hong Kong’s key locations and transportation system. What I thoroughly...

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...