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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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15:28

Poor Things (2023) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2024/03/23

Yorgos Lanthimos is well established as at the very top of directors internationally and one of the best cross-overs from foreign art-hours to English language "big pictures", with artistry and acclaim only increasing, a rare feat. Poor Things, probably the second most successful film at this years Oscars is worthy of the acclaim and one of the most imaginative films of the era. If I want to nit pick, the middle act is far too long and repetitive and the characters a little superficial.

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13:05

Madame Web (2024) Movie Review

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2024/03/23

Well it's back-to-back BIG FAT ZEROS out of ten for the last two MCU films. It's even worse than The Marvels but sadly never so bad it's good, it's far too boring to ever be entertaining. But it is interesting to watch the actors actually become totally disinterested in even being there. No one cared at all about any aspect of this film, which supplants its predecessor as the worst post Iron Man comic book super hero film yet

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11:25

The Social Network (2010) Film Review

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2024/03/17

Having watched David Fincher's finest film (bar none) for the umpteenth time recently, my appreciation for it has only grown. The across the board class in direction, score, cinematography, casting, acting and writing and the fact there's not one wasted scene or moment that drags. It's also become far less about Mark Zuckerbeg and Facebook and far more about the terrifying years since.

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10:10

The Zone Of Interest (2023) Film Review

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2024/03/17

A stellar review for Jonathan Glazer's latest art piece, a full decade after the equally impressive, Under the Skin, though this is his undoubted masterpiece - and a slightly better 2023 film than Oppenheimer. This hugely unusual and very disquieting take on the Holocaust, has arguably the best use of sound in cinema history.

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09:11

The Oscars 2024 Round-Up

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2024/03/17

Exactly what it says on the tin.

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17:50

Liam Gallagher John Squire - Liam Gallagher John...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2024/03/10

The Britpop/Madchester legends come together for arguably the finest album in the history of Liam Gallagher and John Squire albums, warning contains frequent swearing and quotation of John Squires lyrics.

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12:01

Can - Live in Paris 1973 (2024) Album Review

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2024/03/10

The most stunning of the recent four live album releases by Krautrock titans, Can, features two caveats not present on the previous releases. Actually featuring previously recorded songs, and major ones, and also vocals, by the recently deceased Damo Sazuki. It's immediately their most essential and thrilling live release and perfectly timed.

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08:44

Land Of Bad (2024) Movie Review

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2024/02/25

This Rambo 2-esque actioner may have one of the worst titles in modern history, and very little story, but director William Eubank is proving to be so competent technically, fans of high tech, Delta Force shoot-outs in the jungle will have plenty salivate over.

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30:09

A Tribute To Damo Suzuki (RIP) And Can

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2024/02/18

With the recent passing of legendary singer, Damo Suzuki (16 January 1950 – 9 February 2024), from Krautrock legends, Can, a walk through one of the finest runs in music, a discography I would keep over the peak album periods of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd and possibly my favorite band in history.

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11:33

Evil Under The Sun (1982) Film Review

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2024/02/17

Turning an Agatha Christie story in a broad, comedic, European farce, sounds fatal on paper. But with its acidic, modernist Noel Coward script, a cast from heaven to deliver it (Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Jane Birkin...) all sound-tracked by Cole Porter, as a film, it maybe the finest Christie adaption of all.

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06:54

The Bricklayer (2024) Movie Review

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2024/02/17

Hollywood's relentless imagination and originality never fails to amaze. After last weeks review of The Beekeeper, where an ex hot shot intelligence agent, enjoying anonymity in retirement as a humble beekeeper, is dragged back into action, now The Bricklayer, where an ex hot shot intelligence agent, enjoying anonymity in retirement as a humble bricklayer, is dragged back into action.

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12:32

The Beekeeper (2024) Movie Review

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2024/02/10

A welcome throwback to the days Jason Statham action films weren't The Fast and the Furious related, though director David Ayer misses an opportunity to lean fully into what's great about it and create a classic of the genre.

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15:25

Perfect 10’s: Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2024/02/04

After Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, my second favorite album of all time, regards drug addiction and obsessive love as the same thing as religion, in a 1997 album actually superior to OK Computer.

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10:48

Burial - Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above (2024) EP Review

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2024/02/04

Arguably the most important British electronic music artist this side of the Aphex Twin, returns, not with ambient whale noises, but two absolute bangers. Can it be true!? Oh Happy Day!

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13:20

Gone But Forgotten: Walter Wegmüller – Tarot (1973)...

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2024/02/04

My intermittent series on albums denied classic status at the time or forgotten from the conversation since. Here the outlier to Krautrock's astonishing Cosmic Joker releases, where some of the finest mainland Europe musicians to ever play 'rock' music, wound up being in a band they didn't even know about, but did release two proper collaborative works. One with LSD guru Timothy Leary (7UP) and this vastly superior double album, by mystic, artist and Tarot card reader, Walter Wegmüller. Featuring

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07:55

The Oscar Nominations 2024

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2024/01/28

A few thoughts on one of the more controversial Oscar noms lists.

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07:12

Maestro (2023) Film Review

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2024/01/28

Boasting career best performances from Carey Mulligan and Bradley Cooper, and a massive step up for the latter as a director, a very high class entry into the best picture Oscar race with the Leonard Bernstein biopic.

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06:43

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) Movie Review

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2024/01/28

The much delayed sequel has an atrocious daggy single dad start, where they manage to lose both sides of the Amber Heard argument, but given my low expectations, ends up one of the better post Endgame, comic-book super-hero watches. Unlike The Marvels, it actually looks like they spent MORE than $200 million on the spectacular visual design.

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09:12

The Smile - Wall Of Eyes (2024) Album Review

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2024/01/28

The second from the frankly pointless Radiohead side project, that may as well just be Radiohead, is slightly better than their excellent debut, A Light For Attracting Attention. A more cohesive whole a the years first great album. Straight white indie boys can get best new music from Pitchfork. If your name is Thom Yorke.

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14:15

Perfect 10’s: Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The...

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2024/01/28

My irregular feature on outstanding masterpieces touches down (after another pinnacle year for Stevens with his latest high-water mark album, Javelin) with the album that made his name, still one of the most ambitious and successful album length projects this century.

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