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Film Review: A Foggy Tale 大濛 (2025) - Taiwan Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 9/10 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 are films that shout their importance, and then there are those like Chen Yu-hsun’s A Foggy Tale(大濛), which arrive on quiet feet, wrapped in mist, and leave you changed in ways you don’t immediately notice. This is one of the finest Taiwanese films in recent memory — a work...

Film Review: Double Happiness 雙囍 (2026) - Taiwan Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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.comIn the realm of wedding comedies, where chaos is usually confined to drunken toasts and missing rings, Joseph Chen-Chieh Hsu’s “Double Happiness” (雙囍) dares something more ambitious and humane. It takes the familiar farce of a big day gone wrong and layers it with the deeper fractures of divorce, parental ego, childhood wounds,...

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...

Nina Wu 灼人秘密 (2019) - Taiwan / Myanmar / Malaysia Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. Premiering at Cannes, Director Midi Z manages to create an atmospheric psychological thriller about the cost of ones’ rise to fame. Partly written based on her own personal story by writer and lead actress Wu Ke-Xi, the film is loosely inspired by the #metoo movement. There are many challenging scenes in the film as the we are witnessing a film within a film as...

A Sun 陽光普照 (2019) - Taiwan  Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)  Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. In the 5th feature film from Taiwanese Director Chung Mong-Hong (“Parking” and “Godspeed”), “A Sun” is a difficult yet rewarding film to sit through with its epic 156 minutes running time. It’s one of those enduring journey filled with broken family dynamics, coming of age, growing up and dealing with relationships and work. It’s a mature outing from Chung as he slowly allows the audience to witness the...