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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 Film Review: The Chronology of Water 水的編年史 (2025) - USA / France / UK / Latvia Reviewed at the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2026 Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7/10 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 scene about halfway through Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water” where Imogen Poots, playing the memoirist Lidia Yuknavitch, stands in a swimming pool at night. The water is black. The...

Film Review: Greenland 2: Migration 末世綠洲2：絕地遷徙 (2026) - USA / UK Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7/10 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 Bone-Chilling Descent into the Long Aftermath - “Greenland 2: Migration" understands something crucial that eludes most disaster sequels: sometimes, the true terror begins after the apocalypse. American Director Ric Roman Waugh wisely jettisons the bigger, louder, flashier mandate, trading the first film's frantic, globe-trotting escape for a grim,...

Film Review: Shelter 天眼浩劫 (2026) - USA / UK Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 6/10 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 scene early in "Shelter" where Jason Statham, playing a man named Michael Mason, stands in a downpour outside a remote Scottish croft, looking at something in the middle distance. He is wearing a thick cable-knit sweater. His face, which appears to have been chiseled from the same granite as...