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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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13:07

Babylon (2022) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/02/22

I cannot get a line on writer-director Damien Chazelle at all. His films Whiplash and First Man were brilliant but in totally different ways. His films La La Land and Babylon are terrible but in totally different ways. I definitely didn't expect this to be this bad and I sat through three-hours and ten-minutes of it so you don't have to. I thought I'd get a wildly flawed, art-house triumph, instead I got the Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, only even more superficial and empty. Car crash

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15:25

Gone But Forgotten: Sugar - Copper Blue (1992) Album...

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2023/01/28

"Gone but forgotten" is an album (sometimes an artist) that was either denied classic status on release or has fallen completely out of the conversation. Alongside The Pixies and Sonic Youth, Bob Mould's 80's act, Hüsker Dü were one of the holy trinity that formed American alternative rock music and especially grunge - his follow up three piece, Sugar, had a fair crack of making some of Grunge's best music. They were certainly acclaimed at the time, but now revisionism of the era tends to bring in

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10:16

X (2022) Film Review

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2023/01/28

This Mia Goth led slasher has a lot to recommend it, mainly it's cast and direction - but the least interesting thing about it is probably the horror movie it becomes.

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13:17

Gone But Forgotten: The Cardigans - Gran Turismo...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/01/25

A new feature on this channel - on the radio show I have "Gone but forgotten" which is an album (sometimes an artist) that was either denied classic status on release or has fallen completely out of the conversation.

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08:08

The Pale Blue Eye (2022) Movie Review

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2023/01/25

Being an enormous fan of the underrated outing by this films director (Scott Cooper) and star (Christian Bale), Out of the Furnace - which also received tepid reviews - I was sure this Edgar Allan Poe featuring murder mystery was a lock. I was wrong, I've no idea what went wrong here but this is actually atrocious and some great actors give their worst ever performances (not Bale btw)

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12:45

The Menu (2022) Film Review

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2023/01/25

Has eating the rich ever been more literal? Yes as they aren't actually eaten (unlike The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) but this class/foodie warfare tale is even better than I'd been led to believe and slightly superior to the analogous Glass Onion.

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17:03

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) Film Review

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2023/01/10

An unexpectedly timely rumination on male relationships and depression, as well the most welcome cinematic reuniting of a director and cast since Another Year. Probably Oscar winning writer/director, Martin McDonagh's most complete film, as well as star, Colin Farrell's most complete performance. With its focus on existential crisis, despair, depression and suicidal idealisation, the oddest companion piece with Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, possible.

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16:37

Glass Onion (2022) Film Review

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2023/01/10

No matter the critics consensus, the sequel to the breakout modernist take on Agatha Christie, Knives Out, isn't quite the film its predecessor was. This time both the characters (a rogues gallery of internet famous people) and the murder mystery itself, are both less interesting. This is still top quality entertainment though, and feels like a million dollars, even when it's slapping itself on the back. We wont tire of Benoit Blanc any time soon, as long as the quality is at least this high.

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20:39

Blonde (2022) Film Review

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2023/01/10

Bizarrely, in the same year another, very different Australian director thought it was time for a biopic of Elvis, auteur Andrew Dominik finally realised a decade long goal of bringing another icon back to the silver screen, Marilyn Monroe. Dominik has only released four films this century and this is his most art-house and dangerous project. Sadly, despite the luminous and brilliant Ana de Armas, some outstanding visuals and music (courtesy of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis) it's hampered by bad

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12:31

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Movie Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/01/03

The sequel The Woman King apparently. But seriously not good.

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08:39

The Woman King (2022) Movie Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2023/01/03

Not, apparently, Black Panther 2 Electric Boogalaoo but a different film entirely. And a lot more fun.

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10:14

Black Adam (2022) Movie Review

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2023/01/03

The Rock makes The Eternals but funnier and faster, at times, which is something I guess.

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37:02

The Brown Note Top 25 Albums Of 2022

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2022/12/31

Which indeed it is, featuring underappreciated efforts from Suns Signature, Indio Sparke, Chief Keef, Spiritualised, Tomu DJ, Just Mustard and The Afghan Whigs.

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01:03:22

The Best And Worst Films Of 2022

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2022/12/26

Exactly what it says on the tin. Plus lambasting ever redundant critics year end lists of films no one has seen.

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17:45

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - World Record (2022) Album...

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2022/12/13

Ahhh, Neil, my old friend - you get the last album review of the year and what an intriguing one it is, amongst the EIGHT Neil Young albums to come out in 2022. Compared to the good if not outstanding, Barn, released at the start of the year (also with Crazy Horse) what stands this out most from a serviceable recent run of new albums, is a ton of personality. It's all done with such wild abandon, with zero concessions to anyone, it almost feels related to something like, Tonight's The Night.

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11:18

Indigo Sparke - Hysteria (2022) Album Review

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2022/12/13

The second album, after the spectral wonder of her first, Echo, has been damned with faint praise but for me is continually elevated by the sheer number of immediate choruses and melodies, outweighing it not being experimental or varied enough. Here the astonishing voice, married to a raft of really big tunes makes it one of the albums of the year for me.

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13:34

Amsterdam (2022) Film Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2022/12/13

The most misunderstood film of the year. David O. Russell certainly had a massive critical comedown - after the likes of Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle - with this star studded, borderline historical farce. Everything about this film is slightly off kilter and I can appreciate why it bombed, but after a while of thinking it was indeed terrible, kinda adjusting to its hyper-weird language. It's one of the most bizarre films to have come out of a major studio and almost everything about

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05:43

Lucrecia Dalt - ¡Ay! (2022) Album Review

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2022/12/11

The Colombia-via-Berlin artists latest certain recalls NIcholas Jaar's Space Is Only Noise period and unsurprisingly as they've released on his label - but more so of a connection with Rosalia. It's like the alpha to Rosalia's much more art-house, MOTOMAI, omega.

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08:09

Daphni - Cherry (2022) Album Review

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2022/12/11

Canada's Dan Snaith hits his most prominent album that isn't under the name Caribou, with this DJ mixtape in fell, collection of more up tempo, club-oriented tracks, akin to Nicholas Jaar doing his AAL project. Catnip (for me) references, early 90s techno, Orbital, UK garage, Four Tet, filter disco, and on... for a nearly (but not 100%) perfectly curated set.

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07:51

Day Shift (2022) Movie Review

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2022/12/08

Jamie Foxx is good value in a colorful but only intermittently entertaining or funny vampire romp, that feels more like a zombie flick and is very surface level, but just about gets over the line.

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