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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

tv & film film reviews

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07:05

Parannoul - After The Magic (2023) Album Review

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2023/03/26

The still anonymous, South Korean shoe-gaze/emo independent artist expands on their breakout, To See the Next Part of the Dream album, in every way - for a massive and intensely melodic slow burn and of the best albums of the year.

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06:53

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023) Movie Review

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2023/03/21

Guy Ritchie's latest still isn't doubling down on the career high of The Gentlemen, but whilst the luminescent Aubrey Plaza or an irascible Hugh Grant are on screen, this appallingly rote spy-flick is elevated.

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14:14

Tár (2023) Film Review

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2023/03/21

One of this years major Oscar contenders is a total tour de force, with an already well celebrated lead actor. It is also an unexpected foray into the world of post #MeToo and cancel culture.

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08:02

Fever Ray - Radical Romantics (2023) Album Review

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2023/03/21

Sweden's The Knife alumni turns in by far their most compelling solo album (out of three) and the best new album I've heard this year.

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07:18

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You...

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2023/03/21

Probably this years most acclaimed album so far, is, for me decidedly mid, lackluster, dated and often boring, oh dear.

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11:11

The Last Of Us: Episode 9 - Look For The Light (2023)...

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2023/03/14

Perhaps an ironic title for this crushingly bleak finale to probably the TV event of the year - and a fitting strong episode that is centered on a massive moral question - would you sacrifice the person you love the most to save everyone else in the world.

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06:58

All Quiet On The Western Front (2022) Film Review

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2023/03/14

I suspect that Ukraine played a big part in the awards success of this German anti-war film, which even the Germans called "Shallow, cynical and horny for Oscars", because other than the awards-worthy cinematography, sound and score - everything else is decidedly mid-tier. Almost as basic and trite as a modern war film could be without being directed by Steven Spielberg.

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07:46

The Oscars 2023 Round-up

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2023/03/14

Exactly what it says on the tin, my yearly round-up of the Oscars.

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11:24

Orbital - Optical Delusion (2023) Album Review

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2023/03/10

After a righteous victory lap with last years 30 Something celebrations, where would one of the all time greatest and most important electronic music acts go? For me they've successfully welded their past and modern electronic music into a highly political album that hits a surprisingly sweet spot.

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09:28

The Last Of Us: Episode 8 - When We Are In Need...

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2023/03/07

After the middling episode 7 the series roars back into life, with one of the most powerhouse and satisfying episodes (perhaps alongside Ep 5) and also the darkest and most brutal. Bella Ramsey has her finest hour as Ellie and an excellent Scott Shepherd as preacher David, is the lowest humanity has sunk so far. Great stuff.

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08:16

John Cale - Mercy (2023) Album Review

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2023/03/07

The Velvet Underground legend's fine seventeenth solo album makes the unexpected detour into Yacht-rock/pop and electronica with a raft of contemporary artists. I wouldn't mind a bit of trimming over its occasionally duller first half but it's and album that grows through its duration and also repeated listens.

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09:42

Little Simz - NO THANK YOU Album Review (2022) Album...

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2023/03/06

Gradually getting back into newer album releases, with this surprise-around-christmas victory-lap release from the recent Mercury Music Prize winner and correct speller of little. Another consistent and solid album from the UK rap star and her in house producer, the already legendary Sault alumni, Inflo - if the least impressive of her golden run.

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08:43

The Last Of Us: Episode 7 - Left Behind (2023) TV Review

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2023/02/28

Oh dear, after the hugely successful Ep3 pulled the same stunt, stopping the forward momentum built up from Ep's 4-6 dead for another (gay) love story (a really tiny bit) falls a bit flatter this time. We get the necessary back story of Ellie (Bella Ramsey), her past at the military academy and her relationship with her room-mate and love, Riley. It's good but the weakest episode, quite repetitive, a slog, feels like low stakes filler and curiously like an episode of Stranger Things. Ellie only

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10:53

Gone But Forgotten: The Football Factory (2004) Film...

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2023/02/28

The English Trainspotting. I've decided to include movies in "Gone But Forgotten" where I focus on something either denied classic status on release or ignored today or both in the case of this Nick Love adaption of epic writer, John Kings novel about football hooliganism. It's impeccably cast, moves like a rocket, has surprisingly great cinematography, awesome dialogue and a soundtrack that aces even Trainspotting itself. It also tells a few unknowable truths about working-class Britain.

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08:33

A Knock At The Cabin (2023) Movie Review

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2023/02/28

Old M. Night Shyamalan has been on one wild ride these last fifteen years, a run of some of the worst films this century, followed by a couple of the worst films of all time - the ship seems to be righting though. Mainly his last few Unbreakable films and this book adaption have fared far better. He is still his own films worst enemy though, going PG or Spielberg when he should be going R-rated or confrontational, even reversing two major elements from the award winning novel to make them

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29:10

Gone But Forgotten: Simple Minds/New Gold Dream 79-82

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2023/02/27

Even Scottish band, Simple Minds, rote story is all but forgotten - that they were purveyors of bombastic stadium rock alongside the peers U2, throughout the mid eighties, draping themselves in worthy social issues. This completely misses the even more hidden truth - in the four years between 1979 and 1982, the band released six albums in what was one of the most progressive and brilliant runs by any band, including The Beatles and Can. A look through that period - so deserving of reappraisal - and

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16:24

Perfect 10’s: David Bowie - ”Heroes” (1977) - Album...

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2023/02/27

Released as UK Punk raged, for me the greatest album by David Bowie artistically. A near remake of the also 10/10 Low from not even a year before - Low may get more plaudits for being first, but, that minimalist album is just shaded by its maximalist followup as far as outright satisfaction goes.

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11:40

Pearl (2022) Film Review

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2023/02/24

After watching director, Ti West's first Pearl movie "X", which alongside Pearl was regarded as 2022's high points in horror, I didn't really get it, but I wasn't prepared for the gulf in class between that good-but-rote standard horror and the masterpiece that is Pearl. Mia Goth is, I think, alongside Anya Taylor Joy, Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, one of the four hottest properties in acting right now. Here she gives a performance for the ages in one of the most complete portrayals of a psychopath

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11:45

Plane (2023) Movie Review

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2023/02/24

As a double PHD in both Liam Neeson action movies post Taken, and pre-Fast Jason Statham action movies, I feel Gerard Butler may well send me back to university. I'm really liking where he's at now and after the fabulous Greenland, we get this almost puritan throw back to 80s Jean Claude Van Dam era actioners, just with way better acting and directing. But please stop under-using the wonderful Daniella Pineda. Utilitarian film-making at its finest.

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18:38

The Last Of Us: Episodes 1-6 (2023) TV Review

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2023/02/22

Although I rarely watch new TV series, I have been swept up in the hype of this acclaimed video game adaption, and was presented with a very classy yet not mind-blowing show. It has, however grown to become enthralling and undoubtedly the TV event of the year. Ironically I have reviewed EVERY series of Narcos, so am one of the people viewing Pedro Pascal's assent to God status with a "yes, we told you this ten years ago". For all it's achievements in technical and writing areas, there's no doubt

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