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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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11:50

The Flash (2023) Movie Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/08/12

Yes that's what it is.

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11:16

Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman (2023)...

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2023/08/06

The 8th album from arguably the best (last?) rock band on on Earth, is still good but with less reason to be than their previous albums, other than adding another three or four great QOTSA tracks to their live set.

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05:49

Arthur Russell - Picture Of Bunny Rabbit (2023) Album...

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2023/08/06

The universal acclaim for this collection of outtakes from the esteemed New York music icon, is a perfect example of the emperors new clothes. A series of sketches, often so slight, you wonder if the artist would be furious they were even released. Definitely not worth having.

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07:19

Gone But Forgotten: Hamburger Hill (1987) Film Review

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2023/07/30

My series on mainly albums but also films, that were either denied classic status on release or have been forgotten about since - Hamburger Hill is both. Derided a little on release as a poor cousin of the defining Platoon and a lower rent Full Metal Jacket, this sometimes trite Vietnam film builds up to an incredible climax, redolent of the harrowing intensity of Come and See, far more than Saving Private Ryan.

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11:27

Barbie (2023) Film Review

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2023/07/30

You may have heard of it. BarbieOpp arrives at a unique crossroads in movie history - with regards to the hegemony of comic book super-hero franchises and people even going to the cinema at all - but it is a good film, and remarkably even handed in its view of the sexes. The best of it doesn't seem to celebrated enough - a hugely clever screenplay and a superb Margot Robbie. Its only flaws are being little flat and dragging here and there but overall a very good - if not great great - cinematic

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13:35

Sigur Rós - Átta (2023) Album Review

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2023/07/29

The last thing I wanted from the Icelandic post-rock titans was an orchestral album, but I was wrong. Alongside Suns Signature's release last year, one of the two most beautiful albums in recent years, an immersive, soothing balm for troubled times. Immaculately sequenced, constantly ebbing and flowing, one of the years finest albums and their best since 2007's Takk.

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05:29

King Krule Space Heavy (2023) Album Review

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2023/07/29

Another fine, though often very low key album in the indicative style, all of his own, from Archy Marshall. Though still yet to reach the incredible peak of 2017's The Ooz.

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11:51

Killer Mike - Michael (2023) Album

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2023/07/29

The Run The Jewels alumni delivers his first solo project since 2012's RTJ launching R.A.P. Music, which contained my track of the year Reagan. Having followed him ever since, this project lacks the widescreen dynamism and variety, lyrically and sonically of the RTJ albums, ironic, given this uses multiple producers and guest artists.

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10:04

Scream VI (2023) Movie Review

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2023/07/28

The latest Scream film has some massive problems. Like its predecessor, it's so heavy handed with the over done self-awareness it becomes extremely tiresome. Yet despite continually talking about slasher movie stereotypes, it also embodies the most stupid ones, in a manner I found grating.

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09:43

Extraction 2 (2023) Movie Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/07/28

I liked the first in this John Wick adjacent, also stunt-man directed, saga a great deal, but everything about the sequel seems slightly better, classier and more cohesive. The prison break is a long form action sequence for the ages.

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12:18

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) Movie Review

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2023/07/16

After avoiding this like the plague, I found myself enjoying it about three times more than I expected and about ten times more than Avatar 2 - in comparison with that other billion dollar success, also made for twelve-year old boys, the excited voice cast, brevity, fun and visuals, wipe the floor with Cameron's interminable nightmare of dullness. Perhaps the LEAST written film in history - yet this isn't a hindrance.

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14:12

Swans - The Beggar (2023) Album Review

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2023/07/16

Michael Gira's 37 year old Swans are moving into a post Seer/To Be Kind era, and if 2019's Leaving Meaning was an underappreciated collection of great songs, The Beggar is a more coherent (two hour long) album length statement as to what that looks like. Some of the most direct and powerful lyricism of his career, amongst what accounts to almost easy listening in this bands catalogue, with plenty of acoustic-led and pretty tracks, with deep existential lyrics. We'll still touch base with medieval

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15:22

Gone But Forgotten: Leftfield - Leftism (1995) Album...

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2023/07/16

My occasional series on (usually) an album that was either denied classic status on release or has been forgotten about since. Immediately I feel maybe I should've chosen the second Leftfield album for this - as has Leftism been forgotten that much? It was alongside Portishead's Dummy and Air's Moon Safari, in every CD library back then. Maybe it has a bit, due to their initial run only being two albums before largely disappearing, whilst contemporaries, The Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Underworld,

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11:43

Fast X (2023) Movie Review

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2023/07/09

With my PHD in the Fast and Furious franchise I have both pluses and minuses with episode ten. I prefer its leaner nature to the overwhelmingly messy previous two installments - though the heyday of 5,6&7 is long gone - but that said, the $340 million shooting budget isn't visible and the profit point of $850 million pure insanity. There are, however, a lot of down sides. Too many characters, meaning no one gets much meaningful screen time, exacerbated by splitting up that main cast - the best

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10:04

Air (2023) Movie Review

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2023/07/09

I'm a big fan of Ben Affleck and all his trials and tribulations, though I thought Argo, his massive Oscar winner, was his weakest film as a director and his debut, Gone Baby Gone his best. Air - the story of Michael Jordan and Nike - is a new bow for him, pure, flat out entertainment and one of the years most easily enjoyable films. Plus he gets to give best bud Matt Damon a great starring role. Possibly not that memorable but who cares.

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08:04

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (2023) Movie...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/07/08

A surprising delight, that works best when it trusts itself, by leaning fully into the comedy and chemistry of leads Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez, and illusions to the likes of The Princess Bride and even Shrek. Often hilarious, with plenty of expensive fantasy action and some fine support from Hugh Grant and Regé-Jean Page

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08:34

Sisu (2023) Film Review

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2023/07/08

Though rightly being called the Finnish John Wick, the stunningly barren landscape and WW2 Nazi setting make it wholly distinct, and the non-more grizzled star (Jorma Tommila) takes stoicism to painful new levels. It still has a strong sense of self-awareness, even though its better the straighter it plays things. Cat-nip for fans of ultra violence against Nazis.

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05:40

James Holden - Imagine This Is A High Dimensional...

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2023/07/08

The British organic-electronic wizz returns with another inventive, detailed, immersive album length concept which will as always end up as one of the finest 'electronic' albums of the year.

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05:16

The Pope’s Exorcist (2023) Movie Review

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2023/06/18

This criminally underappreciated gonzo blast is way more self aware and hilarious than it's been given credit for. I really hope Russell Crowe's moped riding, devil-bashing, rootin tootin priest (with an EXCELLENT ITALIAN ACCENT) is just staring his cinematic journey. Truly a thing of joyous wonder.

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06:08

Black Country, New Road - Live at Bush Hall (2023)...

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2023/06/18

I launched this channel with a 10/10 review for my joint album of the year (with Rosalia's Motomami) Ants From Up There, then immediately their totemic lead singer and lyricist, Isaac Wood quit then band for mental reasons. Where would this outstanding premier new wave of British indie act go from here? A near perfect answer is a live album of entirely new material, which is often fabulous and contains my song of the year so far, the aptly titled Up Song.

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