The Brown Note Movie 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 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.

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.

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.

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.