Neon Camera Reviews

Top Gun: Maverick By Emily Hubbard Tom Cruise stars in a sequel that soars higher than its predecessor  5/5 Cameras🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥 Starring: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer, et al.  Directed by: Joseph Kosinski Where to find it: In cinemas now  No Copyright Infringement Intended  Top Gun. A film widely considered a classic by many, and the film that made Tom Cruise a household name. With ground-breaking stunts and camerawork, Top Gun changed the way blockbusters were seen and made directors up their game with their future work. To this end, you would be forgiven for being anxious at the idea of a sequel, given the relatively poor quality of many Hollywood sequels. However, in an almost unbelievable turn of events, Top Gun: Maverick may have managed to outshine its’ predecessor. Picking up 36 years after the original film ended, Top Gun: Maverick sees Captain Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell (Tom Cruise) return to the infamous United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instr...

The Northman (2022)  By Calum Whitfield  A visceral, violent vignette of Viking vengeance that’s sure to entertain 4/5 Cameras 🎥🎥🎥🎥 Starring: Alexander Skarsgard, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicole Kidman, et al Directed by: Robert Eggers  Where to find it: In select cinemas now  No Copyright Infringement Intended  When I saw Robert Eggers’ was making a (relatively) big-budget Viking epic I was surprised; his track record to date consists of The Witch, a highly effective folk horror set in the time of the first pilgrims landing in the USA, and The Lighthouse, a tight and strange but thoroughly engaging story about two men going crazy in a lighthouse. To go from those brilliant, but small features to a film with the scale and ambition of this seemed crazy to me but needless to say I was intrigued. Loosely based on the story of Amleth, the tale that also inspired Hamlet, The Northman recently got its wide release, but is it worth the price of admission? The...