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HKIFF Film Review: In-I In Motion 尋你我，覓自己 (2026) - France / UK Reviewed at the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2026 Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 Juliette Binoche’s “In-I In Motion” is a startlingly raw and physically electric directorial debut that proves she is as fearless behind the camera as she is in front of it. While so many actor-turned-director projects feel like polished...

HKIFF Film Review: The Chronology of Water 水的編年史 (2025) - USA / France / UK / Latvia Reviewed at the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2026 Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 a scene about halfway through Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water” where Imogen Poots, playing the memoirist Lidia Yuknavitch, stands in a swimming pool at night. The water is black. The...

HKIFF Film Review: Silent Friend 寂靜的朋友 (Stiller Freund) (2026) - Germany / France / Hungry Reviewed at the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2026 Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 is a moment in Ildikó Enyedi's "Silent Friend" when the camera simply rests on the gnarled bark of a centuries-old Ginkgo biloba, and something remarkable happens. You stop waiting for something to happen. That,...

TV Series Review: Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight (Astérix et Obélix : Le Combat des chefs) (2025) (Season 1) - France Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 It has been a long road back to Gaul. The comic-book exploits of Asterix and Obelix, once synonymous with joyous, clever, and distinctly European animation, have in recent years been subjected to the cruder alchemy of live-action, emerging as...