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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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11:22

The Decline And Fall Of Pitchfork Magazine: Or How...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2024/01/21

Pitchfork music magazine has apparently been executed, the century's most important music bible being folded into GQ magazine by its evil corporate overlord Conde Nast. As a devout consumer of Pitchfork since the turn of the century, I've been predicting this for the last five years - the post Fetch the Bolt Cutters years, but really the five years that editor in chief Puja Patel has been in charge, and until I hear otherwise, misguidedly shaped the direction of Pitchfork into oblivion. Conde Nast

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12:17

The Marvels (2023) Movie Review

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2024/01/21

I walked in expecting a fairly decent 6/10 movie that had been review bombed into the dust by bro-tastic Brie Larson haters, I got literally the worst MCU film yet and kick off the year with a big fat zero out of ten. Even the terrible Thor 4 and Antman 3 have so many more things going for it than this abysmal travesty of film-making.

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08:56

Napoleon (2023) Film Review

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2024/01/21

Director Ridley Scott is having a grand old time of it his later years, putting out some of his wildest films. The Last Duel was a totally underrated true life historical movie, yet actually it's House of Gucci that Napoleon is far closer to. It fails its main job of delivering a convincing biopic of its titular character but succeeds in being entertaining - if draining - due to how completely crazy it is.

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07:58

Ricky Gervais: Armageddon (2024) Stand Up Review

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2024/01/13

Since I recorded this, Gervais' latest special won a Golden Globe, remarkable in a few ways. I almost gave up on Ricky's stand ups after the very tepid, Humanity, but this one, though not perfect, has a lot more fire and reason to be.

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07:38

Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer (2024) Stand Up Review

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2024/01/13

Sadly the weakest of the probably six Chappelle specials I've reviewed. Certainly with the least amount of top tier material and reason to exist.

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15:18

Saltburn (2023) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2024/01/09

Emerald Fennell's follow up to the outstanding debut, A Promising Young Woman, isn't as vital or brilliant, but certainly has plenty to recommend. Mainly it's pairing of Barry Keoghan and a stellar Rosamund Pike. It's an often great, if superficial and fairly meaningless collision between Brideshead Revisited and The Talented Mr. Ripley.

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14:43

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2024/01/09

Hearing this was a young adult romance and musical, there was no way I was going near this with a fifty foot pole, but being desperate I did. After nearly cringing myself to death during the opening half hour, a surprising good story developed. Although it doesn't really dove-tail into the most iconic YA film series of all, I've nothing but respect for a director with this much narrative NOT splitting it into two films (I see you Zack Snyder). Overall a surprisingly good and intelligent watch.

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18:14

Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire (2023) Movie...

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2024/01/09

Zack Snyder came out of the DC Extended Universe something of a cult hero, neutered from his vision by an uncaring world and leaving the unexpectedly superb Snyder Cut of Justice League as a goodbye. Next to James Cameron and Christopher Nolan, he also has one of the most annoying online fan-bases of any director, just without the great movies. The aggravatingly titled and critically mauled Rebel Moon, earns its atrocious reviews. It is nearly so bad it's good and there is some fun to be had playing

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01:02:30

The Best And Worst Films Of 2023

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/12/19

In a banner year for big, great and terrible movies, my best and worst films of 2023.Emperor's New Clothes award going to, Killers of the Flower Moon, sadly.

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26:40

Top 25 Albums Of 2023

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2023/12/10

My yearly list of the best albums, in a pretty decent but not great year in music, in a particularly poor era for music journalism. Movies to follow. Emperors New Clothes award for most inexplicably, universally praised album of the year - Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You Full show with music - https://www.mixcloud.com/julian-brown/top-25-albums-of-2023/

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09:35

The Grey (2011) Film Review

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2023/11/25

Every single time I watch this Liam Neeson "actioner" my appreciation for it as a modern classic grows. For me it is the greatest film to examine the difference between toxic masculinity and positive masculinity, as a group of near awful or at least deeply broken men, all become better versions of themselves through adversity. The pack of wolves hunting them representing a beautiful tone poem on inescapable mortality and how you greet that.

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09:21

The Killer (2023) Film Review

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2023/11/25

I fully expected director, David Fincher's new film to be a stone cold Day of The Jackal look into the mind of an assassin. It isn't, its a far more rote and overdone revenge story, yet at the same time, the level of class every single aspect of its making possesses, the awards worthy performance of a long absent Michael Fassbender and the fact it leans fully into black comedy, makes it feel new and incredibly watchable.

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12:06

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/11/20

If the undoubted cinematic success story of the year was Barbenheimer, it's undoubted biggest victim was Mission: Impossible 7. Coming off the back of Tom Cruise's most warmly received mega hit, Top Gun Maverick and with stellar reviews, the movie hit the immovable force that 76% of movie goers were watching either Barbie or Oppenheimer in its second week of release. Often analogous with The Fast and Furious franchise, there were a couple of weak-spots compared to the previous three high water

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09:09

The Kill Room (2023) Movie Review

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2023/11/20

This underappreciated low key gem gives us the best Uma Thurman lead of the modern era - seriously why is this woman not used more? And if it isn't her wondrous basket case of an art gallery owner/modern art guru wannabe on screen, its Samuel L Jackson - what more do you want? It may be a tad obvious and predictable but its 100% worth the (short) ride for Uma alone.

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05:57

Tomu DJ - Crazy Trip (2023) EP Review

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2023/11/05

A short, flowing and classy sequel to one of last years finest electronic full lengths - Half Moon Bay.

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10:32

Slowdive - Everything Is Alive (2023) Album Review

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2023/11/05

Part of the UK's holy trinity of Shoegaze, along with RIDE and MBV, all of whom made strong comebacks after twenty-years absences, with new albums and tours. Sadly this second comeback album is nowhere near the perfection of the self-titled 2017 effort and is sadly too slight in almost every direction.

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09:01

Sparklehorse - Bird Machine (2023) Album Review

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2023/11/05

The late Mark Linkous' esteemed band receives a totally unexpected final album, the one he was working on at the time of his suicide in 2010, and completed by his family members. And it's wonderful.

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08:48

The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/11/05

The tenth album by the UK stalwarts is, for me, arguably their finest since the high point of Surrender in '99. Tracks like Live Again and the Beck featuring, Skipping Like a Stone amongst the years finest.

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07:20

Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/11/01

This Is England, director, Shane Meadows first masterpiece, retains immense power as a treatise on small town brutality and toxic masculinity, especially with the never better performance of Paddy Consadine.

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11:20

Beau Is Afraid (2023) Film Review

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2023/11/01

Director Ari Aster has had quite a wild ride. His debut, Hereditary, was one of the defining films of both horror and A24 in a decade defined by both, the followup Midsommar was derivative trite trash, with a bizarre fan-base. So seeing the tepid reviews of his most ambitious film yet, I gave 'Beau no hope - and ended up with possibly my film of the year.

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