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Film Review: Iceman Cometh 急凍奇俠 (1989) - 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 are films that arrive like polite guests and films that kick the door in wearing period costumes, brandishing swords, and demanding to know what a television is. The Iceman Cometh (1989) belongs firmly to the second category. Directed by Clarence Fok with the kinetic fury of the Yuen clan behind...

Film Review: Tian Di 天與地 (Chinese Untouchables) (1994) - 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 kind of sadness that only Hong Kong cinema of the early 1990s could deliver with such clean, unflinching precision. Tian Di is not a film that asks you to feel good. It asks you to watch a decent man try to do the right thing...

Film Review: Changing Partner 夜夜伴肥嬌 (1992) - 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 appealing about watching two people who can’t stand each other get locked in a room together until the universe forces them to notice the other person has a pulse. Changing Partner knows this formula cold and plays it with the cheerful confidence of a film that has...

Film Review: Cause We Are Young 求戀期(1997) - 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 In Cause We Are Young (《求戀期》, 1997), director Vincent Kok Tak-chiu captures that fleeting, electric moment when youth collides with the bewildering maze of modern romance. Like a Cantonese cousin to those early-90s ensemble comedies that balanced screwball energy with genuine heart, this film doesn’t pretend to reinvent the wheel...

Film Review: Midnight Girls 午夜麗人 (1986) - 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 certain neon-soaked poetry in the way 1980s Hong Kong cinema captured the restless pulse of a city in transition—the glittering promise of wealth brushing against the grit of survival, where dreams are as fragile as the sequins on a nightclub dress. David Lai’s Midnight Girls (also known as...