The Brown Note Movie 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.

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.

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.

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. 

This fascinating noise-electronic-thrash-avant collective from the UK/France make a fabulous and abrasive second album with a smorgasbord of influences.

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.

James Blake always sounds like he's trying to make the perfect James Blake album, and this is one of his closest efforts.

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.

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 After Another and just about as good. Ari is one of the greatest out there right now as is his lead actor Joaquin Phoenix, in one of his finest and most unknowable roles.

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 as a result.