The Brown Note Movie Review Podcast
1) The Brown Note Top 20 Albums of 2025
Exactly what it says it is, in a terrific year for album length releases.
2) Weapons (2025) Film Review
Director Zach Cregger, follows his (overrated) "IT" horror, Barbarian, with a film that is better in near every way than its messy predecessor. Though good rather than great and far more cohesive film...Show More
3) F1 (2025) Movie Review
This old school sports movie - a near remake of the classic Robert Redford baseball movie, The Natural - is built entirely out of cliches and hokum, and I kinda love it. Brad is ace, they don't rely o...Show More
4) Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) - Movie Review
I felt bad for the last film in this venerable (near 30 year!) franchise. It not only got Barbenheimered at the box office but it was also the first real step backwards in quality. Sadly I would say t...Show More
5) Burial - Comafields / Imaginary Festival (2025) EP Review
The esteemed Mr William Bevin's latest isn't quite his ambient side nor his beat-heavy side, though it does feel like listening to a club way in the distance. Classy stuff but I would've liked a bit m...Show More
6) Sofia Kourtesis - Volver (2025) EP Review
Following on from the outstanding debut album, Madres, a lesser EP from the Berlin based Peruvian DJ. Two fantastic tracks but also a bit of filler.
7) Superman (2025) Movie Review
After an interminable half year of being spammed by this over-promoted battle between, directors Zack Snyder, of the previous DC comic book movies and his replacement, James Gunn, the movie itself is ...Show More
8) Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) (2025) Album Review
This timely second live album from Radiohead, is of their most overtly political album, at a time when the band's impenetrable force-field has been broken by politics over Israel. Many tracks outstrip...Show More
9) 28 Years Later (2025) Film Review
Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, return to their iconic zombie franchise. While it probably wont satiate fans of the first two films in the same way, it does have its own unexpected succe...Show More
10) Freddie Gibbs - Alfredo 2 (2025) Album Review
Arguably the MVP of solo rap these last ten years, and particularly for his single producer albums with Madlib and (this album's returning) The Alchemist. It's a fine album but in the context of those...Show More