Neon Camera Reviews

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...

Peaky Blinders (Season 6, Episode 1) By Emily Hubbard  Birmingham’s finest export begins its’ final season in an explosive, yet emotional way. 4/5 Cameras 🎥🎥🎥🎥 Directed by: Anthony Byrne  Starring: Cillian Murphy, Finn Cole, Anya Taylor-Joy, et al  Where to find it: BBC iPlayer  No Copyright Infringement Intended  Cast your mind back to September 2019. Stormzy has just performed a stellar headline set at Glastonbury, the world was yet to hear the word ‘Covid-19’, and season 5 of one of the BBC’s most popular shows, Peaky Blinders, had just aired its final episode. Fast forward 888 days and the world is a completely different (and far scarier) place. After what has felt like a never-ending onslaught of horrible news, it will come as a relief that Birmingham’s finest current export is able to provide a much-needed familiarity with its long-awaited season 6 premiere. With previous seasons of the show involving a range of storylines, ranging from the Italian M...

Last Night in Soho By Calum Whitfield  Edgar Wright’s foray into thrillers is a vintage delight, blending a 60s style with a 70s tone in one tight modern package. 4/5 Cameras 🎥🎥🎥🎥 Directed by: Edgar Wright  Starring: Thomasin Mackenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg, and Terrence Smith  Where to find it: Buy or Rent on Amazon Prime No Copyright Infringement Intended Edgar Wright is one of my favourite directors. Known for quirky comedy which he masterfully blends with other genres to create brilliant, fast-paced, kinetic movies in my opinion he hasn’t put a foot wrong so far in his film career. Last Night in Soho marks him moving into new, darker territory; does his winning streak continue? Last Night in Soho follows Eloise (Thomasin Mackenzie), a girl with a particular interest in 60’s music and culture from a small town in Cornwall where she lives with her Grandmother following her mother’s suicide when Eloise was young, who moves to London to pursue her ...

The New Mutants (2020)   By Emily Hubbard The last of the 20 th Century Studios X-Men franchise is perhaps the most disappointing of them all  1/5 Cameras 🎥 Directed by: Josh Boone Starring: Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Blu Hunt  Where to find it: Sky Cinema/ Now TV  No Copyright Infringement Intended In the film industry, when a movie’s release date gets moved back multiple times it’s usually not a good sign (unless it’s because of a global pandemic). After being delayed no less than 5 times, you’d have been forgiven for forgetting The New Mutants exists, and you’d be better off for it. Originally set for release on April 13 th 2018, this superhero ‘horror’, and the last X-Men film to be released by 20 th Century Studios before the company was bought by Disney, focuses on five teenage mutants being held in an eerie secret institution, run by Dr. Reyes (Alice Braga), that will supposedly train them to join the likes of Wolverine and Cyclops. All is not...