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The Brown Note Movie Review
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Movie reviews from The Brown Note radio show presented by Julian Brown, recorded unscripted, unedited and live. https://www.mixcloud.com/julian-brown/
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) Film Review
I'm pretty much the hardest sell for this movie. I don't like Spider-man as a character, or particularly the films, especially the zany comic stylings and whiny teen angst of the Tom Holland era, I've found all three of his previous movies poor. And once again the Spidey-bros are out in force...
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The Strokes - Reality Awaits (2026) Album Review
After the amazing best in years come-back that was The New Abnormal, their wildest and most aggravating album yet. Their are many fine, fleet-footed, classic sounding Strokes songs here, that just about rescues things. But it's never dull. The elephant in the room however is the far too liberal…
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Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend (2026) Album Review
Phoebe Bridgers sits at the epicenter of the modern music critics happy place, so it's not surprising to see universal acclaim for what is basically cat nip form them. Lost Weekend is a perfectly fine album but screaming album of the year at it is crazy. It's often too woolly, to samey, too...
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It Ends (2026) Film Review
The latest zero budget "IT" horror, is really neither the horror or comedy it's tagged as. Rather this four friends on a road trip to hell movie is an existential meditation on the search for meaning to life, along the extended metaphor of an endless road. It's closer to something like Jorge Luis...
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Mutiny (2026) Movie Review
The latest Jason Statham actioner is a welcome straight forward 1980's Jean Claude Van Damme action flick. Sadly it doesn't embellish or develop that premise in any direction.
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Supergirl (2026) Film Review
Oh dear God... I thought the toxic fanboys had got to this one and it was probably decent. I was so wrong, as is almost every decision, in every direction, they took in making this Rebel Moon standard Guardians of the Galaxy knock-off. A big fat zero out of ten.
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The End of Oak Street (2026) Movie Review
Despite solid reviews and a very starry lead pair - Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor - this dino-sci-fi is too limited to be anything other than an amiable once through you'd likely never watch or think about again.
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The Odyssey (2026) Film Review
I posted that Christopher Nolan's monumental version of Homer's The Odyssey was in danger of being a six out of ten failure, due to a poor script, bad acting and a hokey tone. Boy was I wrong.
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Gone But Forgotten: RIDE - The 5 Ep's
My feature on things that were denied classic status on release or have been forgotten about since. The first 5 Ep's by Shoegaze legends, RIDE, have not been forgotten but the band is often painted by their first two albums alone. Another two albums worth of classic material was released across...
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Obsession (2026) Film Review
Finally, after Longlegs, Sinners, Weapons, the monkey one, an "IT" horror movie that finally lives up to the hype and illustrious predecessors like Hereditary. Writer-directory Curry Barker gives a masterclass debut, examining the truth about the relationships between men and women, before…
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Lee "Scratch" Perry & Mouse on Mars - Spatial, No Problem. (2026) Album Review
This unexpectedly brilliant final chapter in the dub reggae icon's story was recorded in 2019, a few years before his death. You didn't realise how much you needed an 80 year old Bob Marley fronting a 1982 post-punk, new-wave, dub-reggae, krautrock album.
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) Film Review
The logical heir to Everything, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Though not as moving, consistent or imaginative, there's still plenty of grist for sci-fi fans and intermittent spells of brilliance.
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Iceage - For Love of Grace & the Hereafter (2026) Album Review
The Danish titans are one of the best and most consistently great rock acts over the last fifteen years, but their sixth album feels more like a late period Strokes album, with less vitality or potency than previous releases.
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Citizen Vigilante (2026) Film Review
The most controversial film in the world I tells you! And is legendary gozno-indie film maker, Uwe Boll trolling Elon Musk here? Getting him to promote a film about an evil, sociopathic billionaire landlord? Boll's anti-immigrant spree certainly gives the viewer a big work out.
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Modest Mouse - An Eraser and a Maze (2026) Album Review
The latest from the alt-rock legends may not quite be a good as their excellent (and ignored) previous album but it's still got enough to suggest fuel remains in Isaac Brock's tank - I've upgraded to an 8/10 as it's a grower.
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Boards of Canada - Inferno (2026) Album Review
Sadly this long awaited comeback album from the Scottish electronic Titans, lacks the imagination, emotion and strangeness of their heyday.
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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is a 6/10 Failure
The greatest truism in movies - trailers never lie. However truncated the format, trailers give a great indication as to the quality of the dialogue, acting and overall tone of a film. My fear was the casting, no not THAT casting. My excitement around such an exciting project was dampened every...
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Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Movie Review
The goofily named latest from the James Wan/Jason Blum horror universes is a totally different take on The Mummy story than the Tom Cruise or Brendon Fraser era films. This is a straight horror more in the vein of The Conjuring series through with the harder edge of something like Sinister. It's...
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Apex (2026) Movie Review
Maybe only Tom Cruise himself goes as far in earning a paycheck as an outstanding and, no doubt, severely bruised Chalize Theron does in this near great genre thriller. Think the hunting humans as sport genre via Cliffhanger via Wolf Creek.
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Angine de Poitrine - Vol. II (2026) Album Review
This years break out floppy-nosed, Aztec-Jewsih folk song prog metal cartoon virtuoso duo have taken the world by storm and loopers have never been so happy.
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Robyn - Sexistential (2026) Album Review
Abba themselves would be proud of the path fellow Swede Robyn has blazed through melancholic-euphoric pop(TM) this century, but this is more an EP than one of her defining albums.
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Mitski - Nothing's About to Happen to Me (2026) Album Review
The eighth album from the anointed queen of sad girl indie feels like a half-a$$ed stop gap, with non of the compositional brilliance of Be The Cowboy and even the poise of her voice feels distant.
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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2026) Movie Review
The legend that is James Cameron, hasn't made a decent film in thirty-years, instead obsessing over the minutiae of the dead-on-arrival universe of Avatar: Smurfs In Space(Balls). At least this punishingly unending third installment is a fraction better than the last film.
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Mandy, Indiana - Urgh (2026) Album Review
This fascinating noise-electronic-thrash-avant collective from the UK/France make a fabulous and abrasive second album with a smorgasbord of influences.
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Project Hail Mary (2026) Film Review
The "IT" SciFi of the year so far is made of other film's parts but reverently and is surprisingly epic (and overlong) but thoughtful and intelligent.
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James Blake - Trying Times (2026) Album Review
James Blake always sounds like he's trying to make the perfect James Blake album, and this is one of his closest efforts.
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Bill Callahan - My Days of 58 (2026) Album Review
If you have ever wanted to jump on the beloved troubadour Bill Callahan's train, now is the time. Always great but this time more so in every direction. Already a contender for my album of the year.
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Eddington (2025) Film Review
After the impossible high of director, Ari Aster's debut, Hereditary, for me the follow-up Midsommar was a complete miss. Since then he's posted two take no prisoners art-house triumphs, Beau is Afraid and this equally wild but very different meta-western. The most analogous film to One Battle...
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Mercy (2026) Movie Review
This much maligned entry into the Chris Pratt is everywhere genre, just about limps over the line to watchable - thanks mostly to its star. Despite an intriguing - if obvious - AI premise it's a better film the more it hews towards standard whodunit fare but consequently less and less interesting...
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Perfect 10's: Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People (2002) Album Review
My internittent series on albums that have over (usually) a long period of time continued to be outstanding. Canada's fabulous Broken Social Scene's second album is a fair contender for greatest indie guitar album in history, certainly in North America.
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Marty Supreme (2025) Film Review
Finally a review of the Table Tennis movie. The two things that stand out, this is one Safdie brother going solo on this film after the mighty one-two of Good Times and Uncut Gems, and I've not been kind to the "Marlon Brando" of our age, Timothy "Baby-Cham" Chamalet. He does actually give a very...
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Gone But Forgotten: Salem - King Night (2010)
My now fairly frequent series on (usually) albums that were either denied classic status on release or have been forgotten about since. Witch House pioneers Salem near qualify for both, back in 2010 their debut album caused a lot of fuss but only mild praise, unlike me giving it album of the…
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Film Review
The Danny Boyle/Alex Garland Zombie train keeps running and in pretty fine style. Wildly over-violent at times but with great work from a demonic Jack O'Connell and a soulful Ralph Fiennes. At its best when expanding both the human and zombie world's and with a truly gonzo final third.
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Gone But Forgotten: The Stone Roses - Second Coming
My intermittent feature on (usually) albums that were either denied classic status on release or have been forgotten about since. I'm not sure the long delayed, much maligned second and final album by The Stone Roses quite qualifies but it's far, far better than the car crash disaster it's...
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The Oscar Nominations 2026
Where the industry led push for Timothy "Baby-cham" Chamalet to win continues and a good but not great film breaks the record for most nominations ever in a pretty average year for movies.
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The Final End of Pitchfork Magazine
There's no doubt Pitchfork is the most important music criticism magazine this century, once the epicenter of the music world. The last decade or more has seen them slide further away from both their implied mission statement and success. Now a pay wall has gone up and that will likely be the end...
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Best and Worst Films of 2025
In the worst year of movies I've actually watched since I started doing these reviews. The year in which mediocrity reigned supreme. Featuring Superman, One Battle After Another, Warcraft, Sinners, Weapons and many more.
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The Brown Note Top 20 Albums of 2025
Exactly what it says it is, in a terrific year for album length releases.
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Weapons (2025) Film Review
Director Zach Cregger, follows his (overrated) "IT" horror, Barbarian, with a film that is better in near every way than its messy predecessor. Though good rather than great and far more cohesive film-making, its still guilty of throwing ideas up in the air without delving any deeper.
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F1 (2025) Movie Review
This old school sports movie - a near remake of the classic Robert Redford baseball movie, The Natural - is built entirely out of cliches and hokum, and I kinda love it. Brad is ace, they don't rely on a wall of CGI and everything radiates good looking, exciting fun. They don't make em like this...
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) - Movie Review
I felt bad for the last film in this venerable (near 30 year!) franchise. It not only got Barbenheimered at the box office but it was also the first real step backwards in quality. Sadly I would say that's the case once again, as pretty much everything was better even in Dead Reckoning. It's…
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Burial - Comafields / Imaginary Festival (2025) EP Review
The esteemed Mr William Bevin's latest isn't quite his ambient side nor his beat-heavy side, though it does feel like listening to a club way in the distance. Classy stuff but I would've liked a bit more.
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Sofia Kourtesis - Volver (2025) EP Review
Following on from the outstanding debut album, Madres, a lesser EP from the Berlin based Peruvian DJ. Two fantastic tracks but also a bit of filler.
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Superman (2025) Movie Review
After an interminable half year of being spammed by this over-promoted battle between, directors Zack Snyder, of the previous DC comic book movies and his replacement, James Gunn, the movie itself is not actually any good. Just as goofy as the pre-release shots proclaimed it to be and too...
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Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) (2025) Album Review
This timely second live album from Radiohead, is of their most overtly political album, at a time when the band's impenetrable force-field has been broken by politics over Israel. Many tracks outstrip their studio counterparts in a pretty thrilling document of the band in their best live era.
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28 Years Later (2025) Film Review
Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, return to their iconic zombie franchise. While it probably wont satiate fans of the first two films in the same way, it does have its own unexpected successes. It looks pretty amazing for a movie filmed on iPhones and has a far deeper soul than...
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Freddie Gibbs - Alfredo 2 (2025) Album Review
Arguably the MVP of solo rap these last ten years, and particularly for his single producer albums with Madlib and (this album's returning) The Alchemist. It's a fine album but in the context of those other albums, not a stand out. The immaculate luxurious lounge-soul back drop, can get…
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Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Movie Review
I'm not entirely sure where the rebirth happens in the 7th movie of the financially indestructible franchise, given it's basically a remake of Jurassic Park 3. But it is viciously hamstrung by terrible dialogue and acting, more befitting a low budget horror movie. Instantly the worst of the lot…
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Jim Legxacy - black british music (2025) Album Review
The modern music critic is the biggest coward going. If it ticks the right boxes, they worship it out of fear. That's the only reason for the insane level of universal acclaim this album from the very talented Londoner has got. I found it difficult to get through, bland, almost Beiber-esque…
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Ballerina (2025) Movie Review
This John Wick spin off suffers most for an unforgivably trite story. I feel like I've seen this 'young girl that loses her parents and grows up to be an assassin' story a hundred times already. It also fails to make good use of its luminous star. Outside of that, it looks fantastic, is made with...
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