The Brown Note Movie 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 claiming it to be the Citizen Kane of MCU. So why is it actually great?! And it actually replaces Guardians OTG 3 as the best post Endgame project.

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 use of auto-tune, that completely ruins several tracks and should be shot into the sun. Especially as Casablancas sounds great when it's switched off.

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 homogenized in mood, tone, instrumentation and the songwriting is occasionally great but often fairly listless and the lyrics often a bit, well, trite and obvious. 

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 Borges short story, The Library of Babel.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 that same brief period.

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 letting the horror loose.