The Brown Note Movie Review

Wow, will you look at that, apparently Julia Roberts starred in a remake of Sleeping Beauty, I genuinely have no recollection of this ever exisiting.

I really feel for star Taylor Kitsch, who I always like and thinking is hugely underappreciated as a leading man but often wed to failing products. This glorious misfire is as amiable and enjoyable as he is, you can see why it famously and epicaly bombed but theres plenty of grand-scope Sci-Fi to enjoy here, with a strong story and likeable cast. Perfect fodder for home entertainment for people that like big tent fantasy across its occasionally ropey screenplay.

What an antidote to the icy new-Nordic thriller this magnificent twisted Norwegian beast is! Frequently crossing far over the line and blackly hilarious.

MMA star Gina Carano made such a good start here, you wonder how on earth she got relegated to Fast and the Furious bit parts. For an MMA star launch vehicle its ludicrous - director, Steven Soderbergh, cast including Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender and Channing Tatum. holy cow. Well worth checking out and even up against that top tier talent she acquits herself well.

Terrific hard edged genre rewards from a charismatic Mel Gibson, here on the slow road back to redemption. Sadly Gibson's pick of director, Adrian Grunberg would not follow up on this promise with the olympically awful Rambo: Last Blood his only follow up, suggesting Mr Gibson had an enormous hand in making this.

Wow! what a year that was, the top three films from this year ended up my top three of the entire decade. And remember De Niro and Jason Statham starring in The Killer Elite?!? Did that actually happen?

Let's hope Josh Trank redeemed himself with the upcoming Al Capone biopic after he trashed the incredible promise shown in this fascinating superhero outlier, with the dreadful Fantastic Four reboot. Here though he injects the troubled adolescent tropes with supernatural vigor for one of the most imaginative and memorable found footage films.

Drew Goddard's modern genre bending Sci-Fi horror near classic throws multiple kitchen sinks on top off the college kids in the woods trope, to awesome imaginative effect.

With the esteemed documentary director Kevin Macdonlad (of Touching the Void fame) at the helm and its charismatic subject, a watchable but curiously flat Bob Marley documentary.

By far the best and most compelling of the oddest franchise behemoth of the decade, one that exploded onto the scene and seemed to immediately recede from view with every subsequent release, ending on a dark elliptical note, with a couple of awful middle films along the way. But taken alone the original packs a thematic punch and has the hero to match it in Jennifer Lawrence.