{"id":2335672,"date":"2026-03-18T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2335672"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:24:07","slug":"he-bled-neon-review-joe-cole-and-rita-ora-trudge-through-a-cliched-poseur-crime-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/he-bled-neon-review-joe-cole-and-rita-ora-trudge-through-a-cliched-poseur-crime-story\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He Bled Neon\u2019 Review: Joe Cole and Rita Ora Trudge Through a Clich\u00e9d, Poseur Crime Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5804770\/\">Drew Kirsch<\/a> got his start in music videos, perhaps most notably as the mastermind (or, something mind) behind <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2357847\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s celebrity-filled \u201cYou Need to Calm Down\u201d video. But like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000399\/\">David Fincher<\/a> and plenty of others before him, Kirsch had his sights on leaving the short-form, for-hire market and making a feature film of his own. He\u2019s done just that with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32125009\/\">He Bled Neon<\/a>, which premiered at SXSW.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsch is to be commended for making a leap that few ever do. And his debut feature certainly has a lot of tailoring, with its propulsive music, saturated color, and picturesquely grimy locations \u2014 New Mexico stands in for the seedier corners of Las Vegas sprawl. Kirsch is also smart enough to maintain a modest scale: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32125009\/\">He Bled Neon<\/a> is a small revenge movie, economical in its reach. This isn\u2019t an auteur project; Kirsch directs a script by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5596147\/\">Tim Cairo<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5595774\/\">Jake Gibson<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director Drew Kirsch got his start in music videos, perhaps most notably as the mastermind (or, something mind) behind Taylor Swift\u2019s celebrity-filled \u201cYou Need to Calm Down\u201d video. But like David Fincher and plenty of others before him, Kirsch had his sights on leaving the short-form, for-hire market and making a feature film of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2335673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2335672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018He-Bled-Neon-Review-Joe-Cole-and-Rita-Ora-Trudge.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335674,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335672\/revisions\/2335674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2335673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}