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Film Review: Someone Like Me 像我這樣的愛情 (2025) - Hong Kong 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 Here is a film that dares to ask a question most movies won't even whisper: What does desire look like when your body has been declared off-limits by a world that claims to care about you? Tam Wai-ching's "Someone Like Me" is not the weepy, uplift-for-the-able-bodied exercise its premise might...

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 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....

HKIFF Film Review: The Dating Menu 廚師發辦 (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 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 A Multi-Course Meal for the Soul - Here is a film about hunger—the kind that rumbles in your stomach and the kind that keeps you awake at 2 a.m. scrolling through faces that all start to blur together. Amos...