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The Brown Note Movie Review

Movie and Music reviews from The Brown Note radio show presented by Julian Brown, recorded unscripted, unedited and live. Also on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggKb5ezgKFT5M27z75jVcQ

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07:33

Actress - Statik (2024) Album Review

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2024/07/07

Although I've been fonder of the more intense and dense albums by the UK's Darren J. Cunningham, unlike the recent Four Tet release, this at least goes on a cohesive journey and ends up being more than the sum of its parts.

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06:22

Abigail (2024) Film Review

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2024/06/29

With a show-stopping performance from Alisha Weir as a young kidnapped rich girl (>cough<), an uneven yet ultimately welcome entry into a golden era for horror films, this deliberately at the schlockier end of the spectrum.

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07:44

The Fall Guy (2024) Movie Review

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2024/06/29

Despite having everything on paper - including strong reviews - this amiable farce is only half the film it could be, or needs to be. A waste of the talent and budget on display. It's too slight and surface level and the story too weak to be anything more than a forgettable once through. And I'm docking it another point for that godforsakenly awful cover of The Unknown Stuntman.

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11:31

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) Movie...

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2024/06/22

The hugely surprising second act in the once terrible, now pretty great, director Guy Ritchie's career continues. Ironically Henry Cavill gets to play the guy that inspired James Bond, in this wild re-telling of a genuine WW2 story. Superficial to a fault but hugely entertaining. Someone help him with his movie titles though.

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09:00

The First Omen (2024) Film Review

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2024/06/22

This excellent and surprisingly art-house prequel to the original (and superb) Omen movie, is also very bizarrely close to the recent Immaculate.

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09:17

How to Dress Well - I am Toward You (2024) Album Review

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2024/06/15

I was a huge fan of Tom Krell's early work How to Dress Well, though faded when it became a more ordinary RnB proposition. This wildly artistic and conceptual 6th album is criminally underrated and one of the years unsung gems.

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13:39

Chief Keef - Almighty So 2 (2024) Album Review

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2024/06/15

Being very much down with my fellow kids, I am a big fan of the last decades king of outsider rap, particular in the middle of a terrible era for mainstream rap music. Keef's wildly prolific period of endless album length projects on whatever the hell he felt like, has given way to much stronger and more focused releases in recent year, culminating with the rap album I will probably play the most this year.

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07:12

Amen Dunes - Death Jokes (2024) Album Review

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2024/06/15

Damon McMahon, AKA Amen Dunes' last album, 2018's Freedom, is one of the great singer-songwriter albums of the last few years and the first to make, sounds a bit like David Gray into a compliment. However, his far more experimental follow up has nowhere near the memorable songs of its predecessor.

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22:01

Perfect 10’s: The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin...

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2024/06/15

My irregular series on albums that are perfect 10/10s - here celebrating the 25th anniversary of the album that put the underground alt stars on the same level as Radiohead, and with Yoshimi, one of the great one-two's in alternative music. Much credit has always gone to the incredible "Indie Pet Sounds" music, but Wayne Coyne's singing and in particular, lyrics are criminally underappreciated. It's one of the greatest alternative albums thematically - and its themes of angst filled superheroes,

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09:52

Civil War (2024) Film Review

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2024/06/08

What should be the year's most important film, is its biggest let down. Director-writer Alex Garland, refuses point blank, to engage with anything at all happening in America today, and instead delivers yet another war correspondent film, and not a good one, that could have been filmed in any country, about any conflict in the last 50 years.

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10:48

Monkey Man (2024) Film Review

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2024/06/08

Actor Dev Patel has had a wild ride of a career so far, back to back the world conquering high of Slumdog Millionaire followed by the atomic crash of The Last Airbender. In recent years he has grown back fully into stature, peaking with his directoral debut - correctly dubbed the Indian John Wick.

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09:52

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) Movie Review

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2024/05/25

Much like it's unexpectedly entertaining precessor, I enjoyed it more than most critics. Though it misses the faux-Spielberg 80s magic of Afterlife, once it clicks into gear, the second half is the superior.

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11:41

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) Movie Review

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2024/05/25

I've been a big fan of the American iteration of the Godzilla franchise, though after the high water mark of the previous outing, this is arguably the least essential of the lot. Still enjoyable hokum but undeniably shown up by its proximity to the awesome Godzilla Minus One. A much lower stakes and for some reason lower scale outing.

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07:45

Late Night with the Devil (2024) Film Review

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2024/05/18

Wildly imaginative and original and actually thrilling, plus a great showcase of a so far unsung actor, that crops up over and over again in hugely memorable bit parts (from Nolan's Batman to Villeneuve's Prisoners) David Dastmalchian. Writer/Director/Editors Colin and Cameron Cairne's 70s chat show horror is NOT a satire but definitely is a horror.

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10:21

Godzilla Minus One (2023) Movie Review

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2024/05/18

Only being available to watch on Paramount Plus streaming in Japan, I took a flight to the country and ordered one months subscription, to be able to bring you this review. Is it worth the hype? It certainly is. The writing and development of the human characters wipes the floor with the (often excellent) modern American Godzilla franchise, the cinematography, effects and score are magnificent and the story packs a real wallop.

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06:56

Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch (2024) Album Review

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2024/05/15

The California singer songwriter broadens the setting of her voice on her lovely new album, sounding less idiosyncratic than in the past, though more of that instrumentation would've been welcome.

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15:37

Orbital (1991 - The Green Album Reissue 2024) Album...

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2024/05/15

The first album by the legendary Hartnoll brothers is bizarrely a group in flux even on their debut. Much more a collection of tracks compared to the immortal run of albums that would follow and a more dated sound. Yet it's still often fascinating and when the material peaks across tracks like Chime and Belfast, they were already a cut above. This 5 CD reissue benefits from remastered sound quality, though is really for completists who want everything from an era nowhere near as interesting as what

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13:19

Gone But Forgotten: Basic Instinct (1992) Film Review

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2024/05/11

In my infrequent series on art denied classic status on release or forgotten from the conversation since. Like almost no one since Sergio Leone, director Paul Verhoeven's work was been critically derided on release, hugely successful with the public and gone through countless upward critical revision since. Whereas Robocop and Total Recall have remained permanently in the public consciousness, Starship Troopers has undergone endless re-appraisal and even Showgirls has become a cult classic, his most

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08:26

In The Land Of Saints And Sinners (2024)

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2024/05/11

As one of the world's most renowned PHD experts on Liam Neeson action movies, the modern era has been a truly testing time, with virtually nothing that hasn't been terrible. So with great exhalations I am thrilled to announce, by miles the best Liam actioner since the golden era of The Grey, Cold Pursuit and Run All Night. Imagine The Banshees of Inisherin but gangsters and terrorists and you're virtually there.

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16:35

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Fu##in' Up (2024) Album...

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2024/05/06

I don't even know who this man is.

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