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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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09:44

Morbius (2022) Movie Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2022/05/28

It's Morbin time! fellow kids. Despite awful reviews, I didn't have a problem with this 300% on Rotten Tomatoes smash fail. I haven't been a fan of Jared Leto's jarring cameos in recent movie history, but he fares much better as a lead here, and both he and Matt Smith have, I think well developed and well acted characters, in a story with strong motivations. I've certainly seen worse from the Marvel stable and - shock horror - enjoyed it slightly more than The Batman.

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10:27

Firestarter (2022) Film Review

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2022/05/28

As we continue to trawl the depths of remake and reboot - the unasked for return to a lesser Steven King novel and its even lesser film version, has been panned by critics. A whopping 11% Rotten Tomatoes. HOWEVER if you like the modern era's low key, low budget, homage to cult 70's/80's horror or Sci-fi movies with awesome soundtracks - by the very king of this himself, John Carpenter (if only he'd directed too!) I actually liked this, especially its off the leash final third.

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15:21

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)...

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2022/05/28

The once universally loved wizarding world arrived at the third installment of this prequel to the Harry Potter franchise in much darker waters. The replacement of Johnny Depp and the equally large controversy surrounding JK Rowling. Both far more compelling than this unnecessary franchise (or lead character) has ever been. Despite the gay love story adding unexpected depth, there's little here to do than ponder what the purpose of any of this was.

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12:41

Arcade Fire - WE (2022) Album Review

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2022/05/28

Canada's indie royalty, Arcade Fire, have struggled this last decade to sustain the immortal high of their first three albums, their latest, WE, seems to want to hark back to that golden era. It almost does so successfully - at times. The first half less so, than a near faultless second, and Butler's lyrics are occasionally hello kids cringe, but there's a raft of compelling and soaring new songs here.

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08:16

Uncharted (2022) Film Review

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2022/05/25

Video game adaptions are a historic basket case for no real reason either, just hire some one to write a decent script and screenplay and the rest is already in place. This Mark Wahlberg/Tom Holland'er has neither and is possibly shallower than the games themselves but despite almost nothing to recommend it, I couldn't bring myself to hate it - mainly because it has a climactic battle of Spanish galleons jousting beneath giant helicopters.

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14:39

Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (2022)...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2022/05/23

Definitely the toughest gig for reviewers in the modern era, given his peerless history and the uncompromising difficultly of the double album offered here. Plenty that is amazing and also a fair bit that is not. Still a wildly impressive and artistic fulmination to the five chapter story arc began with Section.80. I'd go 8.5/9.5/9.5/7/7.5

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10:01

Bad Bunny - Un Verano Sin Ti (2022) Album Review

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2022/05/23

The Puerto Rican superstar is probably the MVP of Latin music right now and at a time it has become the only ever serious rival to English language pop in history. Could well prove the Alpha to Rosalia's art house Omega - Motomami this year and is already the second ever non-English language number one Billboard album after... his last album. An often great double, showcasing a raft of styles that is definitely better in its second half.

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09:00

The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention (2022)...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2022/05/23

Managing to occupy an incredibly narrow strip between Radiohead front man Thom Yorke's solo albums and the main band, whilst featuring fellow band alumni, Johnny Greenwood, wasn't an exciting prospect for me and pretty much Radiohead tbh. However, this was a much more thrilling and dynamic offering than expected. Offering some of the finest white funk this side of the immortal Krautrock legends Can and some of Yorke's most beautiful singing. Even if the dystopian lyrics were a bit slogany and the

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13:08

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)...

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2022/05/18

Even though the rabid fan boys will never admit it, Endgame should've been the perfect ending is was and the quality has dropped off a cliff since. But apparently the Marvel Comic Universe will never stop until its stopped by force. This is one of the slightest and most pointless Marvel films yet, it doesn't even look that good, the only possible reason for coming is a superb Elizabeth Olsen - if only she'd played it like that in the main films - absolutely every thing else here is an instantly

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07:10

The Lost City (2022) Movie Review

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2022/05/18

Crucially closer to Romancing The Stone than Raiders of the Lost Ark, this is an un-challenging balm for troubled times. Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum have the charisma and comic chops to carry the movie, even if the frequent flat spots stop it shy of greatness. It should be criminal, however, not to have had Brad Pitt in two thirds of the movie in arguably the cameo of the year (spin off!!!) and has Daniel Radcliff finally found his groove playing evil billionaires?!

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11:23

Pusha T - It’s Almost Dry (2022) Album Review

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2022/05/09

Still pushing the line that his previous brotherly duo, Clipse's Hell Hath No Fury album is the centuries best rap record, the decade solo Pusha continues one of Hip-hops hot streaks, after the instant classic Daytona. Reuniting with both that record's producer Kanye West and that previous masterpieces producer, Pharrell Williams, for another thrilling ride of apex coke-rap.

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08:30

Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful (2022) Album...

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2022/05/09

Jason Pierce's longstanding coda to his previous band, Spacemen 3, have been ploughing the maximalist space rock field for decades now, and their high point, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, is my second favorite album of all time. After the excellent and very underappreciated, And Nothing Hurt in 2018, Pierce has now opted for a full-on Phil Spector wall of sound assault, touching on most parts of the bands history, to mainly great effect.

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06:58

Sault - Air (2022) Album Review

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2022/05/09

Arguably the world's most important band, after the still largely anonymous London collective have now put out six near fantastic albums in only three years. But this one is a shocker, after five albums steeped in "black" music, whether that be retro, contemporary or future - they decided a classical album was the way to go. Even more surprising is how white it is - as least in its wholehearted embrace of a very European classical tradition of choral, brass and orchestral traditions. Beautiful

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13:17

All the Old Knives (2022) Movie Review

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2022/05/04

Released to zero fanfare and tepid reviews - my most undervalued film so far this year, it's wonderful. Perhaps it is an ordinary spy thriller but that's just a framing device (like the beautifully shot and helmed dinner sequence) for what the film really is, a tragic love story. Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton are sublime, subsumed with passion and regret, it's beautifully shot, sound-tracked and story-boarded - so the delicate pace drip feeds a continually changing and compelling world. The

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09:09

Ambulance (2022) Movie Review

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2022/05/04

I honestly try to give Michael Bay the benefit of the doubt every time. I figure the further we get from the Transformers era, the more we will get films like Pain and Gain, 13 Hours or even the better half of 6 Underground but alas, despite some of best reviews of his later career, Ambulance is a steaming pile of crap and the worst film I've seen so far this year. All his worst is on continual display - the world's most annoying headache inducing over-editing, the nausea inducing camera that cant

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10:17

Bringing Out the Dead (1999) Movie Review

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2022/04/29

We are living in the AGE OF CAGE and finally the world is waking up, surely we are close to a Keanufication of this living deity. This one is a real treat - arguably the most un-watched Martin Scorcese film since Goodfellas, his last with writer Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver/Raging Bull) and a link to the later man's recent First Reformed. It's also the only post 1980's art film Scorcese has made. Plus this heartbreaking look at the people who look after us, barely holding it together feels even more

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16:01

The Batman (2022) Movie Review

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2022/04/29

The relentless recasting and rebooting of this character continues unabated, now completely ignoring the failed DCU universe - though it's serious and dark tone (a high point) make it more relatable to the Snyder Cut and The Joker than those films. In fact it rivals the Snyder Cut of Justice League as one of the best looking superhero films ever - without Christopher Nolan's reliance on massive scope, the cinematography is unexpectedly art-house, even recalling hyper-stylized films like Mandy at

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09:15

Pig (2021) - Movie Review

The Brown Note Movie Review ·

2022/04/25

I have been promoting the AGE OF CAGE for some years now and am pleased the Keanu-fication of the deity Nick Cage is nearly complete. Adding to his raft of actually great performances in actually great indie fair, is one of the most surprising films of recent years. Better to watch it thinking you are getting a John Wick rip off with a pig, than read up on just how far wrong that assertion is. Wonderful, in the truest sense of the word.

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11:59

Wet Leg - Wet Leg (2022) - Album Review

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2022/04/25

I love that the UK music press has remembered it's past and has unrealistically amped up this duo to second coming of Christ levels. Despite the ear catching singles, the albums is a very patchy affair, and patches are almost all second hand, despite a fine and charismatic lead from Rhian Teasdale, a whiff of emperors new clothes permeates like moth balls.

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11:01

Digga D - Noughty By Nature (2022)- Album Review

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2022/04/25

UK Drill is the most zeitgeist rap genre in the world right now and originator Digga D's third 'album' the current epicenter of it, despite the best efforts of the 1984 like London Metropolitan police. It's an album that had to be given to them to vet, shockingly on every level. It's also an album of two halves, a consistently good, if slightly staid ordinary album offset by the seven incendiary extra tracks of the extended version.

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