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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...

Film Review: Crime 101 犯罪101 (2026) - USA 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 shot early in Bart Layton’s “Crime 101” where the camera lingers on the Pacific Coast Highway not as a backdrop, but as a living artery. The sun is bleeding into the ocean, and the traffic is moving with a kind of hypnotic, collective purpose. It is beautiful, and it...

HKIFF Film Review: We Are All Strangers 我們不是陌生人 (2026) - Singapore Reviewed at the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2026 Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic 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 It is not the job of a film to give us answers. That is for sermons and self-help books. The job of a film is to ask the right questions, and then to sit with us in the...

Film Review: Scream 7 奪命狂呼7 (2026) - USA 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 A Nostalgic Safety Net - There’s a moment about halfway through “Scream 7” where Sidney Prescott looks at a Ghostface mask, sighs, and says, “You’d think after thirty years, they’d come up with a new hobby.” It got a laugh from the audience. It also got me thinking: at what point does self-awareness...

Film Review: Shanghai Wonton 菜肉馄饨 (2025) - China 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 Soulful Bowl of Memory and Mismatched Hearts - There is a scene in Chinese Director Wu Tiange's "Shanghai Wonton" where the protagonist, Lao Wang, meticulously folds a tiny square of dough around a lump of seasoned pork. His gnarled, aging fingers move with a precision that his fading mind can no...