The Brown Note Movie Review

It was with supreme irony for a film about how inspired maverick geniuses are held back by corporate interference as that's exactly what it felt like held back this film from greatness.

After putting Jesse through hell for most of the final season of Breaking Bad, finally some closure in this nerve jangling stand alone piece.

Part of a two movie David Hemmings retrospective (along with Blow Up) another classic - Dario Argento's masterpiece is superior to Suspiria.

As part of a two film retrospective on actor David Hemmings (along with Deep Red) - a first watch of the Michelangelo Antonioni's counter culture classic didn't let me down.

I'm no fan of director Sam Mendes at all - he stank up the Bond universe and few films got old quicker than American Beauty. Here he tried the time honored graft of releasing a film based on a gimmick just before the Oscars to hoodwink everyone for a month until they realise it wasn't very good after all - and if it wasn't for those pesky kids...

Our liberal democracies are being stolen from us in broad daylight and it's only getting worse and a polarised political scene is doing nothing to stop it. One of the most important documentaries of the modern era - the story of Cambridge Analytica using weapons of war against the public get right wing agendas elected.

Retrospectively uploading these reviews as podcasts, I've sometimes disputed my initial review - nothing comes close to this, inexplicably given 7.5/10. It's genuinely atrocious, a pointless and stupid film that takes the over-used trope of going to a major city and blowing up famous landmarks and makes an entire film out of it. A 3/10 awful nadir in the Marvel universe.

Just like the Hateful 8 (which I also loved) it polarised audiences but I thought the latest Tarrantino effort was his most impressive and mature directoral effort yet - had I not been preoccupied with end of decade best of lists, it would've beaten Parasite as my best film of 2019.

With several of the best fight sequences of the modern era, a breathtaking, flawless first hour and the best use of the mythos yet - the finest of the three Keanu Reeves genre films.

In retrospect a minor classic for me. The human side is still dire but it's evocation of Japanese monster aesthetics through stunning modern effects has never been done better.