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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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08:40

Panda Bear/Sonic Boom - Reset (2022) Album Review

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2022/08/28

A musical collision between the Spaceman 3 legend, Sonic Boom, aka Peter Kember (getting everywhere of late) and his close friend and Animal Collective MVP, Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox, would seem the years most tantilising collaboration. However this could not be further from a marriage between Lennox's, Person Pitch and the totally under appreciated recent Kember album, All Things Being Equal if it tried. In fact it maybe the most inconsequential album either artist has been associated with.

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08:15

Chat Pile - God’s Country (2022) Album Review

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2022/08/28

Normally one noise or hardcore act will breakthrough the walls of their genre each year, but with Soul Glo and now this Oklahoma based sludge metal band, dropping two of the years most exiting debuts, that looks like being two. This time keeping the politicised nature of the former band's music but in an even more direct an honest form on the anti-homelessness tirade, Why? A terrific, noisy and timely scream into the void.

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09:37

Prey (2022) Movie Review

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2022/08/17

I'm latently a big believer that the Predator series is one of the most underappreciated of franchises, but Prey recognises a complete rebirth (after the undervalued Shane Black attempt recently). Instantly the paradigm of dumping the predator in different periods of history has proven a winning move. I had looked up who the spectacularly named Amber Midthunder was in three previous low rent (ish) films, so was not surprised by her winning turn here, I was surprised by this turning into Predator vs

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12:07

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) Movie Reveiw

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2022/08/17

The most baffling Marvel universe film yet and a massive signifier of just how badly the wheels have fallen off after Endgame. Now way in the past would the first half of this film have ever been allowed, and the light seems to have slightly dimmed on wonder director, Taika Waititi, after the roaring success of Thor Ragnorak. It's like there is no quality control at all anymore and no one is at the helm. The first half maybe the worst of any Marvel film, its grating, Benny Hill like comedic tone

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11:48

Black Midi - Hellfire (2022) Album Review

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2022/08/14

Arguably the king pins of the golden rebirth of British indie guitar music, alongside the likes of Black Country, New Road, Squid and Working Men's Club, return for a third album, and again seem like a group who play tennis upside down because they were bored kids not being challenged. Despite initial misgivings about them being too noisy or too frenetic here - there are plenty of oasis of calm, and it maybe their best yet.

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08:58

Working Men’s Club - Fear Fear (2022) Album Review

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2022/08/13

The northern English band, one of the guiding light of the golden new wave of British indie, return with a second album. Though still a fine and cohesive record, it perhaps doesn't reach the thrilling, lofty, dynamic heights of either their debut or recent records by their peers.

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10:05

Sun’s Signature - Sun’s Signature (2022) Album Review

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2022/08/13

Elizabeth Fraser is the greatest British indie singer of all time and the most beautifully expressive British female vocalist this side of Kate Bush, in fact she's in a tiny peer group with Bush and Bjork. She has chosen now, at this darkest of hours to return to grace us with her totally undimmed golden voice. With her partner Damon Reece, they've sculpted a small album of infinite beauty and star spun wonder. Like Galadriel returned from the West to save us. And it really makes you talk that

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12:28

The Grey Man (2022) Movie Review

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2022/08/13

Once the home of some of the best and most artistic films each year, Netflix has sunk firmly into an annoying paradigm - throw 100-200 million dollars at a cool action project but give it a terrible screenplay and poor director. Here at least the presence of the Russo brothers would appear to allay the latter but to no effect on the former.

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10:49

James Franco: Should An Actor Only Play Who They Are?

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2022/08/13

No, absolutely not. I have a lot of problems with modern activism and its focus on small things but the rally to only have an actor play a role to which they are assigned is simply upside down, wrong head and self destructive. Equality is not only a trans, gay, disabled or ethnic minority being able to play those roles, its trans, gay, disabled or ethnic minority actors having equal opportunity to play any role.

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18:11

Crimes Of The Future (2022) Film Review

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2022/08/04

Perhaps no-one deserves the moniker of post Kubrick auteur than Canadian director, David Cronenberg, who has plowed his own singular vision, without bending to any outside will, for decades. His entire body of work is surprisingly vast and full and his latest plays like a greatest hits riff on it all - as denoted by reusing a film title and re-writing a story he never completed, including his first return to the body horror that made him this century. Though not quite the equal of the films I

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08:14

Neil Young And Crazy Horse - Toast (2022) Album Review

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2022/07/30

In one of the most prolific archival releases from any artist in history, a genuine previously canned Neil Young and Crazy Horse album would appear to be one of the top tier items to have come out. This is tempered by the fact the album was virtually re-recorded with Booker T and the MG's as Are You Passionate, never an album I particularly liked. But the low key stakes are perhaps the album's greatest strength, nothing is a dud and tracks like Going Home and Boom Boom Boom are long form burn

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06:11

Westside Gunn - Peace ”Fly” God (2022) Album Review

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2022/07/30

Just clearing a couple of minor releases before a run on big albums. For me the Buffalo NY State Griselda records crew of Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher, Conway the Machine and (sort of) Mach Hommy is the most interesting thing happening in American rap in some fairly tepid recent years. This low stakes, 2 day recorded mixtape is entirely amiable in no bad way.

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11:03

Jurassic World Dominion (2022) Movie Review

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2022/07/18

After trashing this franchise as one of the worst in film history, where every subsequent cash in release was dire, it was no surprise to see this "middle trilogy (probably)" get the worst reviews of all, and even called one of the worst blockbusters of recent years, HOWEVER. Last time out I gave a near respectable pass to Fallen Kingdom - liking everything up to the volcano exploding, before it, yet again, descended into a predictable Velociraptor/T-Rex love in. But this, shockingly I actually

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13:29

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Film Review

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2022/07/10

The Marvel Universe-Tree of Life-Cloud Atlas-Ingmar Bergman-Being John Malkovich-Brazil crossover you never knew you needed, by the A24/Russo brothers collab the world needed. Second time directors, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert have created one of the century's most imaginative and wild films, that pretends to be a comedic superhero film but is a film about existential crisis - how to deal with the suicidal depressing realisation that life, no life, has any meaning at all. This is everything Dr

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04:20

Black Site (2022) Film Review

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2022/07/10

For fans of utterly generic CIA/Terror B-flicks, this is a far better movie than its paltry 29% on Rotten Tomatoes would suggest. I'm a huge fan of the incredible amount of "women over 40" being pushed as action hero's in recent years (there must've been four or five female ex-assassin films last year alone) and it's great to see Michelle Monaghan - so often used as the perfect wife or girlfriend for a male lead in similar flicks - take the lead role herself. Stand out though is undoubtedly Jason

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11:36

Just Mustard - Heart Under (2022) Album Review

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2022/07/04

The much heralded Irish "Shoe-gazers" second album proves it's the genre that will never die and after Black Country, New Road probably my second favorite "Indie" album of the year. Built on a nightmarish fever dream sound-stage of squalling guitars, Suicide/Joy Division throbbing bass, break-beat drumming and the dead eyed, wide mouthed realm of terror that is Katie Bell, one of the most exciting indie singers in years.

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12:22

Perfume Genius - Ugly Seaon (2022) Album Review

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2022/07/04

With already one of the most impeccable discographies over the last decade, Mike Hadreas' latest is a wild left turn into the avant-garde. Originally music for a modern dance piece, here assembled as an album, gone are the front and center vocals and melodies, replaced by in turns ambient, left field and industrial passages - that fair better on a compelling second half.

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10:28

Angel Olsen - Big Time (2022) Album Review

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2022/07/04

Already established as one of the modern era's great singer song writers, Olsen goes pretty much full (alt-ish) country on her sixth album, responding to a wild few years of coming out as queer and her parents passing. Another fine record but perhaps a little blander and a little less interesting on the musicality and universality of the first half, which snaps far more into focus on the more painful and personal later tracks.

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10:35

Sid And Nancy (1986) Film Review

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2022/06/29

A look back at esteemed film critic and director Alex Cox's most famous hour (after Repo Man perhaps) reveals a first half so camply wild and cartoonish it could be from Baz Luhrmann himself. A second half that leaves the Sex Pistols behind and focuses on punk's own Romeo and Juliet, is a more thoughtful, sad and tragic affair - that goes a long way to humanising a potentially obnoxious couple. Both an early Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb are outstanding in the titular roles. The cinematography of a mid

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11:34

The Northman (2022) Film Review

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2022/06/29

Did I like it? You bet I bloody did! My favorite film of the year so far, a whopping 9.5/10 and positions Roger Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) as arguably the greatest current director in the world. The tale of Amleth (Hamlet), the Danish prince, with a father murdered by his uncle is arguably the most famous Nordic tale of all, due to a certain British retelling of the story. But everything shines here, the cast, the direction, the screenplay, the music and the cinematography are all top notch

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