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Film Review: Hong Boxing 百家拳之洪拳(2020) - China 🇨🇳 Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 09/365 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews   Director Li Lian Jun is another Chinese filmmaker heavily influenced by Hong Kong 90s martial arts cinema. In “Hong Boxing”, Li recreates the Wong Fei Hung universe with a back story focused on his famed pork butcher student - “Lam Sai Wing”. Many Hong Kong cinema fans will recall Sammo Hung’s “Magnificent Butcher”, but this film is far from that level, it is simply a...

Film Review: Ip Man: Crisis Time 少年葉問之危機時刻 (2020) 🇨🇳 Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 08/365 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews       After the previous solid attempt with quality fight scenes “Ip Man: Kung Fu Master”, director Li Li Ming, obviously inspired by Hong Kong action films go back to Ip Man’s roots with “Ip Man: Crisis Time”. Starring promising martial arts star (who was discovered by master Chen Kaige in “Sacrifice” as a teen), Zhao Wen Hao. There are plenty of famed Hong...

Film Review: Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP 미스터 주: 사라진 (2020) - South Korea 🇰🇷 Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 07/365 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Speaking of mindless entertainment, writer and director Kim Tae-yoon, manages just that with the action comedy “Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP”. Filled with cheesy CGI, talking animals and the VIP panda in obvious human costumes, it is the exactly the kind of senseless fun best enjoyed over a couple of Korean beers. It helps that the film stars...

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...