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HKIFF Film Review: Cyclone 超風 (2026) - Hong Kong Reviewed at the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2026 Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 8.5/10 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 Philip Yung's "Cyclone" when the title character, played with astonishing grace by Liu Yuqiao, looks into a mirror. She is alone. She touches her face—not with vanity, but with the careful deliberation of someone assembling a...

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: Queen at Sea 欲愛流離 (2026) - USA / 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 Lance Hammer’s “Queen at Sea” is a haunting, rigorously composed return to cinema that demands your undivided attention. After an eighteen-year absence following his stark 2008 debut “Ballast”, Hammer delivers a film that feels both startlingly modern and...

HKIFF Review: Palimpsest: The Story of a Name 隱蹟之書：重寫自我 (2025) - Hong Kong / France / Canada / Taiwan 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 A Family Album, Written in Ghostly Ironic Ink - There's a moment early in Mary Stephen's “Palimpsest: The Story of a Name” where you see an old home movie footage of...

HKIFF Film Review: Spare Queens 大分瓶 (2026) - Hong Kong 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’s a moment about halfway through In “Spare Queens” when Stephy Tang’s character, a bowling alley manager whose best years feel like a distant country, watches Chrissie Chau’s character—a former rival now forced to share her lane—execute a perfect strike....