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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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06:34

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant (2023) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/06/18

Surely the dumbest name for a movie ever, given this unexpectedly superb step out of his comfort zone for Mr Ritchie, can only be hamstrung by wedding itself to his signature style. Both leads Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim are excellent, but the shock is Ritchie getting the tone so right for a serious post Gulf war film, sonically and visually - it's closer to Lone Survivor than anything in his filmography. I once derided him but the last four films are his best run.

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05:35

Boygenius - The Record (2023) Album Review

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2023/06/18

The female indie super-group of Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers is definitely one of the music stories of the year, and the outstanding performance at godforsaken Coachella made me believe more - but I feel the album, though often great, is a little weighed down by a few inconsequential tracks. Little doubt how much of a star Phoebe Bridgers is though.

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17:30

John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) Film Review

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2023/06/18

God bless Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski for the greatest vanity project in modern cinema - barely a foot wrong in four films. JW 4 is arguably the pinnacle, sonically and visually it's the most beautiful action film this side of Fury Road. It also boast the best side characters in the series, a screenplay that easily handles a near three-hour run time and a performance from Keanu that is like an old man reclining into a chesterfield. A wort of art.

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09:50

Ocean’s Eleven (2001) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/05/03

Another 4K retro review and a real eyeopener. Perhaps my idea of this film had been sullied by subsequent sequels but it is far less goofy or zany than I remembered, and far more thoughtful and, often beautiful. It also hews far closer to the original of these films, the classic Out of Sight. With as charismatic a cast as modern films get, an iconic soundtrack from David Holmes, a surprisingly brilliant script, and more style than is even fair, it rivals The Sting as the greatest heist movie ever

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11:35

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/05/03

I swear these films are getting worse. Removing anything remotely charming or funny about the first two films and with a main cast that appears tonally to be acting in different movies, this is an objectively worse film than the awful Shazam 2, but a brilliant Jonathan Majors villain, Kang, and some pretty pictures, save it from a big fat zero out of ten.

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17:46

Coachella 2023 - Full Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/04/20

An overview of the iconic, yet somehow awful festival - including the elephant in the room (that isn't Frank Ocean). Consider this - on the biggest night of the biggest music festival in America, the four biggest acts on the biggest stage - in a row - did not feature one single musician playing an instrument. Half the acts sing over the top of backing tracks and some even mimed their entire sets. This is a disgrace and for the biggest live music festival in the USA, there's disturbingly little live

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07:22

Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) Movie Review

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2023/04/20

I swear the comic-book/super-hero movies are getting worse, in what maybe their long downward spiral. Amazingly this universe-connected film is even worse than Black Adam - by miles. Incredibly unambitious story, mid-to-bottom tier characters, barely passable acting and the most monumental air of will this do yet. Awful on every level.

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06:39

65 (2023) Movie Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/04/20

The Adam Driver/Young Gomora(!!!) starring sci-fi got royally trashed by critics, but due to a great premise and some nice production design, just about limps over the line for a once through.

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13:17

Unforgiven (1992) 4K Film Review

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2023/04/11

A perfect 10/10 for the greatest Western of the last forty years, with a special emphasis on the career best - and Breaking Bad relatable - performance from director Clint Eastwood's finest hour.

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15:51

Casino (1995) 4K Movie Review

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2023/04/11

After acquiring a big TV, continuing my journey back through widescreen classics. Here Martin Scorcese's luxurious follow up to the greatest gangster film of all time, Goodfellas. Another classic no doubt but the main takeaway from this review is that it isn't better than that film, as I and many others have often claimed.

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17:03

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) Movie Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/04/04

Finally! a review of one of the biggest movies of all time and also one of the most inexplicable successes. Once I watched it, I realized why - it's solely aimed at 12 year old boys, and no one is talking about how sexualised the blue girls are. It's basically a $400 million dollar blue alien fantasy for 12 year old boys. It also is visually like a gaudy Saturday morning CGI kids tv show, with 90's slang, flat acting, awful writing, next to no story and its acclaimed visuals representing a high

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11:05

Gladiator (2000) Film Review

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2023/04/04

A slightly odd story about being TV shamed, has led me to the world of giant 4K TV's and subsequently, re-watching widescreen classics. Here Ridley Scott's genre re-birthing sword and sandals epic stands up well for it's great, dynamic, propulsive screenplay and a superb central cast of characters and performances. It's also probably more relevant to modern politics and populism than ever.

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05:05

JPEGMafia And Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes (2023)...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/04/03

The two beloved stalwarts of underground weird rap are a logical combination - and a possible next level Run The Jewels (which is literally a track name here). It's wild, imaginative fun, swerving minute to minute - but the mixing on the vocals can be off. Still probably the best rap album so far this year and a blast.

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05:45

Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does...

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2023/04/03

Their fifth album has a great sound stage and strong moments but a lot of the songs are under developed and it can get sonically quite repetitive. Not as flat out brilliant as the last two.

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23:12

Lana Del Rey - Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/04/02

Our lady saint Lana del Rey returns with her massive ninth album, and after the seismic breakthrough of NFR! was followed by two slightly lesser works, a record that stands nearly as high. Her most personal and confident description of who she is garners my highest score for a while.

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06:34

Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My (2023) Album Review

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2023/04/02

The 73 year old outsider artist has pivoted towards music in later life, with the opening of his bio on Wikipedia reading, "He was born the 7th of 27 children during the Jim Crow era and claims to have been traded for a bottle of whiskey when he was four". This though is highly accessible and in no way off-puting music, that at its best draws a link from 1800's slavery to modern variants.

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07:27

Missing (2023) Movie Review

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2023/03/28

This fabulous little film has double what it needs to get over the line story wise. Completely undemanding, quite thrilling and for older people, deeply distressing - kids don't even clean up after parties anymore, they just google it!

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12:09

Infinity Pool (2023) Film Review

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2023/03/28

Brandon Cronenberg's psych/body horror sadly lacks the X factor and substance his esteemed father brings to the table, but is still well worth it for fans of depraved, explicit, transgressive JG Ballard-esque societal horror. But none of that matters. We are but peasants for the goddess Mia Goth, the new Bridget Bardot - and a far better actor.

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06:43

Cocaine Bear (2023) Movie Review

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2023/03/28

It's a bear. On Cocaine. Can you believe this hype machine cost near twice as much to make as Everything, Everywhere all at Once?!?!? It looks like it was shot on a 90s cam-corder. As with any film like this, you will ask yourself if it had enough to justify sitting through it, the answer is not quite.

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07:03

100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs (2023) Album Review

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2023/03/26

The music of 100 Gecs is not a crime against humanity, but against all living species on earth. I was fooled into believing this new album was a development in their sound - that, was a lie. I advise only professional music critics with support networks, subject themselves to hearing this. You may develop some form of cancer from hearing it.

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