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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...

Film Review: Girlfriends 女孩不平凡 (2025) - Hong Kong / Macau / 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 In Tracy Choi’s tender triptych Girlfriends, time folds like memory itself—unspooling backward through a woman’s life, revealing the quiet revolutions of love, identity, and self-discovery across Macau, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. This is not a film that shouts its ambitions; it whispers them with the intimacy of a...

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...