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Film Review: Eat Drink Man Woman 飲食男女 (1994) - Taiwan Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 10/10 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 early in Ang Lee’s Eat Drink Man Woman when the master chef Chu stands alone in his kitchen before dawn, testing the temperature of oil with a single drop of water. It sizzles perfectly. He nods once, almost imperceptibly, and begins. That small, private gesture...

Film Review: Organ Child 器子 (2025) - Taiwan Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 There is a particular kind of grief that does not heal. It calcifies. It waits. And when the prison gates finally open after nearly two decades, it walks out wearing the face of a man who once coached children how to swing a bat and now only knows how to swing something...

Film Review: Left-Handed Girl 左撇子女孩 (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 is a moment early in Left-Handed Girl when a little girl is told, quite calmly, that her left hand belongs to the devil. The words are spoken without theatrical malice, almost as a piece of inherited household wisdom. And yet they land with the force of a curse. From that point...

Film Review: Girl 女孩 (2025) - Taiwan Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics 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 are films that merely tell stories, and then there are those that feel like quiet confessions whispered across generations. Shu Qi’s directorial debut 《女孩》 (Girl) belongs firmly in the latter category—an aching, semi-autobiographical portrait of girlhood shadowed by domestic storms, yet illuminated by fleeting rays of tenderness and self-discovery. In the smoke-dusted...

Film Review: Penguin Girl 命中註定那頭鵝 (2025) - 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.com In the delightful Taiwanese romantic comedy Penguin Girl, love is not merely a matter of chance or choice—it arrives dressed in a penguin costume, performing an awkward courtship dance that somehow feels both ridiculous and profoundly right. Director Yuyu Yang’s feature debut (expanded from her acclaimed short) earns a warm heart from...