The Brown Note Movie Review

Writer director Coralie Fargeat announces herself in manner akin to Quentin Tarantino, with her second film. Being both unbelievably don't give a f*ck bold and hugely literate in the history of cinema, wearing a dazzling array of influences across this amazingly wild schlock horror. Margaret Qualley and an awards-likely Demi Moore are fearless accomplices. One of the years best, most controversial and talked about films.

 

 

 

Like its predecessor - Live Drugs - I'm left with the same feeling that I wish half the song choices were different, as at its best, the opening a closing salvos, it's fantastic and a fine representation of one of alt-rocks great bands but much of the middle run is a bit too flat an samey. Def one for fans only. Though Under the Pressure is one of the finest 10 mins of music this year.

Although it wont stand on quality as being one of the esteemed Dan Snaith's finest, as either Caribou or his other alt Daphne, Honey will go down as one of the most important and challenging albums of this era. The use of AI in music is already a hugely controversial topic and one Snaith hits head on by using AI to turn his own voice into a variety of female singers.

My infrequent series on albums, movies or bands that were either denied classic status on release or have been forgotten about since. I've gone on at painful length about my anger at The House of Love - the first exciting and original British indie guitar band since The Smiths - never being included in conversations about either Shoegaze or Britpop, despite being more foundational and sooner for bands like RIDE and Slowdive than My Bloody Valentine themselves. The fact is, that with most of their best material being recorded before the 90's waves even began, they were too soon to a party they helped create. Here a look back at their debut album and the releases either side, that show them as one of the best British bands of the whole show.

A quick shout out of total respect to the Internets busiest music nerd, The Needle Drop, AKA Anthony Fantano. His recent posts on Macklemore and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, have been amazing in a world where so many journalists and socially conscious artists avoid the genocide in Gaza like the plague. Link below

https://youtu.be/oInyT46gNHE?si=VvN9SJfON9Y6_6n8

Outstanding meta commentary, charisma between the leads, humor. Actual film and story - quite slight.

It's been a while between drinks (Madame Web I think) but we're back and firing with a BIG FAT ZERO out of ten for this well loved and warmly received remake of the overrated but hugely influential original. Here, FKA Twigs (with apparently BOTOX in both her face AND emotions), plays a talentless aspiring musician, with model looks, who hangs around in rich people's apartments >cough< whilst Machine Gun Kelly falls in love with her. If you can imagine how insufferable spending time with these two is, as they discuss their moon tattoos, you can imagine the awful first 40 minutes of The Crow being some of the hardest cinema I have watched this side of Salo or Come and See.

Nepo baby and first time director, Zoe Kravitz, takes on what's becoming quite a trope lately - rich people on an island behaving badly, in one of 2024's IT horror movies. Despite some strong ideas thematically, compared to the likes of Infinity Pool or The Menu or even Knives Out 2, it's nearer the back of the pack.

The honorable Sam Shepherd returns with his raviest Floating Points album yet, and probably the years best electronic release.

Auteur of the moment, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos shuns his recent foray into Hollywood royalty (The Favorite/Poor Things) with a return to the punishing uncomfortable art-house of The Killing of the Sacred Deer. For nearly three uncompromising hours, across three deliberately bleak and obtuse stories. It feels like either an attack or a challenge on the viewer but Jessie Plemons is a career best twice.