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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...

HKIFF Film Review: Silent Friend 寂靜的朋友 (Stiller Freund) (2026) - Germany / France / Hungry 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 is a moment in Ildikó Enyedi's "Silent Friend" when the camera simply rests on the gnarled bark of a centuries-old Ginkgo biloba, and something remarkable happens. You stop waiting for something to happen. That,...

Film Review: Send Help 腦細天劫 (2026) - USA Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ ½ 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 Sam Raimi’s ‘Send Help’ Is the ‘Evil Dead’ of Office Politics - There is a moment about forty-five minutes into Sam Raimi’s “Send Help” where Dylan O’Brien’s character—a tech-bro boss named Bradley so perfectly odious you half-expect him to ask a coconut for a synergy meeting—attempts to “disrupt” the coconut industry by...

HKIFF: After the Hunt 誣網之後 (2025) - USA / Italy 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 There is a moment about halfway through Luca Guadagnino's "After the Hunt" where Julia Roberts' character, Professor Alma Olsson, sits alone in her Yale office, a glass of cheap whiskey sweating in her hand, and stares at the spines of...

HKIFF Film Review: Blue Moon 詞聖的醉後一夜 (2025) - USA 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 is a moment in Richard Linklater's “Blue Moon” when Ethan Hawke's Lorenz Hart, three sheets to the wind at Sardi's, tries to explain why he stopped writing. He doesn't say he dried up. He says Broadway stopped being drunk enough...