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Movie and Music reviews from The Brown Note radio show presented by Julian Brown, recorded unscripted, unedited and live. Also on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggKb5ezgKFT5M27z75jVcQ
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Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
A slightly odd story about being TV shamed, has led me to the world of giant 4K TV's and subsequently, re-watching widescreen classics. Here Ridley Scott's genre re-birthing sword and sandals epic stands up well for it's great, dynamic, propulsive screenplay and a superb central cast of characters and performances. It's also probably more relevant to modern politics and populism than ever.
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
The two beloved stalwarts of underground weird rap are a logical combination - and a possible next level Run The Jewels (which is literally a track name here). It's wild, imaginative fun, swerving minute to minute - but the mixing on the vocals can be off. Still probably the best rap album so far this year and a blast.
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Their fifth album has a great sound stage and strong moments but a lot of the songs are under developed and it can get sonically quite repetitive. Not as flat out brilliant as the last two.
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Our lady saint Lana del Rey returns with her massive ninth album, and after the seismic breakthrough of NFR! was followed by two slightly lesser works, a record that stands nearly as high. Her most personal and confident description of who she is garners my highest score for a while.
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
The 73 year old outsider artist has pivoted towards music in later life, with the opening of his bio on Wikipedia reading, "He was born the 7th of 27 children during the Jim Crow era and claims to have been traded for a bottle of whiskey when he was four". This though is highly accessible and in no way off-puting music, that at its best draws a link from 1800's slavery to modern variants.
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
This fabulous little film has double what it needs to get over the line story wise. Completely undemanding, quite thrilling and for older people, deeply distressing - kids don't even clean up after parties anymore, they just google it!
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Brandon Cronenberg's psych/body horror sadly lacks the X factor and substance his esteemed father brings to the table, but is still well worth it for fans of depraved, explicit, transgressive JG Ballard-esque societal horror. But none of that matters. We are but peasants for the goddess Mia Goth, the new Bridget Bardot - and a far better actor.
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
It's a bear. On Cocaine. Can you believe this hype machine cost near twice as much to make as Everything, Everywhere all at Once?!?!? It looks like it was shot on a 90s cam-corder. As with any film like this, you will ask yourself if it had enough to justify sitting through it, the answer is not quite.
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
The music of 100 Gecs is not a crime against humanity, but against all living species on earth. I was fooled into believing this new album was a development in their sound - that, was a lie. I advise only professional music critics with support networks, subject themselves to hearing this. You may develop some form of cancer from hearing it.
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
The still anonymous, South Korean shoe-gaze/emo independent artist expands on their breakout, To See the Next Part of the Dream album, in every way - for a massive and intensely melodic slow burn and of the best albums of the year.