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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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07:32

Talk To Me (2023) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/10/25

The YouTube powerhouse duo release one of the IT horror movies of the year but though really good its not great. It's certainly never the level of originality, impact or quality of an A24 top tier entry. Perhaps an equal to the likes of last years Smile.

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06:10

Blue Beetle (2023) Movie Review

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2023/10/25

Fitting perfectly in with the post Endgame malaise of terrible failures of comic book superhero movies but with a Latino twist! Amazingly rote and unambitious stuff at this stage.

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09:52

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Movie...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/09/18

I thought the worst that could happen was a 6/10 and it couldn't physically be possible to make a worse Indi film than the Crystal Skull. I was wrong. Not only is it just a stupid and bad, it's also far more boring. For an unforgivable lack of imagination, a dullness beyond belief, the worst ever on screen use of Mad Mikkelsen, an awful Phoebe Waller-Bridge character and nearly no sequence that either sticks in the memory or justifies it being one of the most expensive films of all time - a BIG FAT

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09:08

Meg 2: The Trench (2023) Movie Review

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2023/09/18

What in tarnation is one time enfant terrible Ben Wheatley doing directing this!? (seriously, watch The Kill List or Sightseers). Happily, nearly everything is done better here than the lackluster first film, including a magnificent final third.

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04:39

Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/09/11

An entirely listenable but also slight release from the greatest electronic musician of all time.

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04:38

Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination (2023) Album Review

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2023/09/11

I've featured all four of the Canadian electronic chanteuses albums on my radio show and love her style, this is another fine entry, but I definitely prefer the more upbeat, percussive tracks to the slow burn FKA Twigs adjacent/quiet storm material.

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19:41

Perfect 10’s: Love - Forever Changes (1967) Album Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/09/09

Recent reviews of the new album by acoustic-led psych folk band The Clientele and the paranoid existential post Vietnam fever dream film Jacob's Ladder, both led me back to one of my favorite albums of all time. Impossibly predicting the fall out of and come down from the summer of love, whilst in the middle of it in 1967, the LA band Love created a twitching, dread-fueled, schizophrenic masterpiece of incredible songwriting, mind-blowing arrangements, incredible lyrics and existential dread.

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13:44

The Clientele- I Am Not There Any More (2023) Album...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/09/09

The longstanding UK psych-folk-indie band break out of their confines, with a hugely welcome tilt towards more experimental fare and one of the best albums of the year.

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11:39

The Omen (1976) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/09/09

The fascinatingly diverse late director, Richard Donner, certainly created an archetype that has proven potent to this day, with his iconic first big hit. The modern wave of horror from Hereditary to Insidious to Sinister all crib from the mounting family dread over a possessed child, that admittedly is also post The Exorcist. What is often hokum wins here by playing it with a straight face, having zero fat on the screenplay and a titan like Gregory Peck at the helm. It still packs a lean

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13:02

Jacob’s Ladder (1990) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/08/27

I sat down on a Friday night to watch what I thought from memory, was an agreeable mash up of Platoon and The Sixth Sense. I was wrong, and immediately regretted my choice. It was closer to a mash up of Requiem For a Dream and Uncut Gems. The film from my youth was far more unrelentingly intense, harrowing and depressing than I'd remembered. It was also far more profound, beautiful, moving and unusual than it's ever given credit for. Tim Robbins stars as a man driven to psychosis by his post Vietnam

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12:26

Heart Of Stone (2023) Movie Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/08/27

29% on Rotten Tomatoes for the new Netflix, Gal Gadot starring, Mission Impossible rip off, a right royal trashing. For the first half hour, I toyed with turning it off - the dialogue was so trite and the tech angle so grating. But after the film calmed itself down, it was a perfectly well plotted and performed hokey fun spy film, with plenty of action, that was less generic than I'd been led to believe, and not as bombastic as something like The Grey Man. Gal is great and the whole shebang is

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06:14

That Mexican OT - Lonestar Luchador (2023) Album Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/08/27

I know next to nothing about the rapper That Mexican Outta Texas but he sure sounds like fun, on this personality filled, eminently agreeable album.

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10:38

Squid - O Monolith (2023) Album Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/08/27

I've no idea why this second album from the new wave of British Indie Titans doesn't appear to have been more successful than the first. It's certainly more accessible and the yelping has been toned down, the melody increased and the songs shortened. With a great lyrical and musical cohesiveness - it's one of the years finest albums and a worthy answer to last years fantastic Black Midi album.

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11:41

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) Film Review

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2023/08/20

Oh dear, I'm not making any friends with this one (and for the record, I gave the original a great score). Along with GOTG3, one of only two MCU (or even comic-book/superhero movie) bright-spots post Endgame and the most loved with both critics and audiences in years. Thanks, I hated it. The story takes an hour and a half to even properly start, and then it's just "to be continued". WTF!? NOTHING HAPPENS. And the highly praised visuals are sometimes 10/10 inspired and sometimes gratingly jerky and

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06:06

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/08/16

A film about transformers, who are robots in disguise.

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11:35

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/08/16

The one true post Endgame MCU film that is valid, is of comparable quality and has a reason to be. It's also the most upsetting and extreme comic-book, super-hero film post Iron Man - conjuring up, not only horrific animal testing but the experiments on humans by the Nazi's and WW2 Japan. Somehow Rocket Racoon and his three compadres guileless optimism in the face of such horrors, makes it all far worse. How the hell did the extreme content here get a PG rating?!

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15:59

The Long Good Friday (1980) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/08/13

Alongside Get Carter and Performance, one of the greatest hard edged 70s British gangster films. Despite being hugely influential on more trite post Lock Stock fair, this is a hugely complicated screenplay, with massive, almost Shakespearean themes as a never better Bob Hoskings, goes through a proto-Uncut Gems nightmare. With deals he cant hang onto anymore than what he already has. Visions of a fading and rising Thatcherite UK merge into a fever dream - with a stunning soundtrack - as Hoskins and

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17:08

Gone But Forgotten: Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (2006)...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/08/13

My irregular series on usually albums either denied classic status on release or forgotten about since. I'm not sure this album has been (completely) forgotten, but with the immortal duo Clipse reforming, a time to look back at what I call the best rap album released this century.

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13:13

Neil Young - Chrome Dreams (1976/2023) Album Review

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2023/08/13

Perhaps the most valuable of the three unreleased pearls in Neil Young's archive series, this never released album features some of Young's most worshiped songs, and nearly all have ended up elsewhere, but it's a suit of songs of such quality that it would've been one of the best albums of the 70's.

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23:02

Oppenheimer (2023) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/08/12

Oh dear, I knew this would happen. Apparently I waffled for 22 minutes on my radio show about BarbenHeimer.

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