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Film Review: Minari 미나리 (2020) - USA Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 06/365 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Buy me a coffee ☕️ or two to support our Asian cinema film reviews since 2004!  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog   There is a lot of beauty and natural touching moments in acclaimed Korean-American director Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari”. It is as much about an American Dream as it is about human characters, family situations and a personal immigration story told in the softest of lens along with...

Film Review: Boss Level (2020) - USA Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 05/365 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Buy me a coffee ☕️ or two to support our Asian cinema film reviews since 2004!  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog   If there is one exhilarating and non-stop action and stunts film, “Boss Level” manages to be right up there in terms of entertainment value and action packed fun. Director Joe Carnahan whose previous resume include Hollywood action blockbuster  “The A-Team”, “Narc” and “The Grey” brings his A-game...

Film Review: Force of Nature (2020) - USA Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 04/365 https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Buy me a coffee ☕️ or two to support our Asian cinema film reviews since 2004! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog   “Force of Nature” was a tough one to sit through, despite tagging along Hollywood A-list Mel Gibson, Kate Bosworth and Emile Hirsch in leading roles. The film directed by Michael Polish suffers from poor pacing, editing and an nonexistent storyline that fails to be as intensifying as the hurricane itself....

Film Review: Crocodile Island 巨鱷島(2020) - China Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 03/365 https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Buy me a coffee ☕️ or two to support our Asian cinema film reviews since 2004! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog     Guilty popcorn pleasure is what you can best describe the Hong Kong star Gallen Lo led giant monster disaster film “Crocodile Island”. Replicating the success of Hollywood similar genre films with “The Rock” or Jason Statham (think “The Meg”), this low budget highest grossing Chinese made web-release contains all the...

Film Review: Greenland 末世綠洲 (2020) - USA Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 02/365 https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Buy me a coffee ☕️ or two to support our Asian cinema film reviews since 2004! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog   As with most disaster epic pictures, there is always an element of the inevitability of what’s going to happen. “Greenland” manages to entertain by focusing on the key characters and their livelihood situations making it a well rounded survival experience with an end of the world scenario playing out in front of...