(directed by Yan Fei 闫非 and Peng Damo 彭大魔) This film, from the directors who made Goodbye Mr Loser 夏洛特烦恼, is a broad comedy about a hopeless goalkeeper who will inherit a fortune only if he can spend a large sum within a month (it’s based on the novel/film Brewster’s Millions). It stars Shen Teng 沈腾 and Vivian Sung 宋芸桦. Entertainingly silly, and did very well at the Chinese box office. ★★★☆☆

(directed by Lin Chun-Yang 林君陽) This ten-part TV drama examines social, legal, and media attitudes towards mental illness in Taiwan. It won a number of prizes at Taiwan’s Golden Bell Awards, and definitely has a better script than most Chinese dramas, even if it does heavily rely on melodramatic coincidence for the first few episodes. The story was inspired by the 2016 killing of a child by a schizophrenic man in Taipei. Mostly in Mandarin, with some other Chinese languages. The Taiwanese blu-ray set has traditional Chinese and English subtitles. ★★★☆☆

(directed by Jill Culton and Todd Wilderman) It’s a Dreamworks animated film, but was co-produced by Pearl Studio 东方梦工厂 in Shanghai (they had previously done work on Kung Fu Panda 3). Beautiful versions of modern Chinese cities and south-west Chinese landscapes, even including a trip to the Leshan Buddha 乐山大佛. Well worth a watch with younger children. There are versions in mainland and Taiwanese Mandarin, and in Cantonese. The film caused some controversy across south-east Asia because the heroine’s map includes the nine-dash line 九段线 (actually the ten-dash variant, if you freeze-frame the film). ★★★☆☆

(dir. Tian Xiaopeng 田晓鹏) A 3D animated film made in China, this used to be on Netflix with an English dub. I have a Hong Kong-produced DVD (with both Mandarin and Cantonese audio, and simplified, traditional, and English subtitles) from yesasia.com. I hope the Japanese blu-ray that’s also available uses a different source, as the DVD picture quality is atrocious. But anyway, this is suitable for 11+ viewers, and has Monkey King teaming up with a trainee monk to defeat a demon king. The child-eating demons make it a bit nastier than you’d expect from this kind of film. Not a masterpiece of storytelling, but will provide plenty of entertainment and some Chinese language input. ★★★☆☆