The Brown Note Movie Review

Sits alongside Wall-E and Up as one of Pixar's greatest artistic achievement and one of the finest in all animation.

With a cast to die for, this literal, beautifully shot and atmospheric recreation of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster makes a good case for never attempting to climb the bloody thing. Not great but very good and the awesome Aussie actor Jason Clarke center stage for once.

Wildly over acclaimed and incredibly messy but enjoyable and watchable comedy 'hood' drama.

Given the director and stars involved, you'd expect so much more from Guillermo del Toro's latest but it is a sumptuous Gothic horror non the less.

I am a late comer to the cult of Amy Winehouse but the singer left a legacy and talent far beyond her peer and one that reverberates slightly more each year since her passing. This outstanding documentary by Asif Kapadia does her full justice and shows how much of her music simply flowed through her. A tough watch when it all starts to fall apart and yet another star apparently looked after by no...

Well, you have to hand it to them in the Battleships-style, what's the smallest, most limited setting we can have for a movie department, in setting a horror entirely on a computer screen but its pretty rubbish.

I weep everytime a big budget original, non-franchise concept movie tanks but it's a big fat zero out of ten for this abysmal travesty, that has none of the charm of something like Jupiter Ascending.

Director Ridley Scott flies off in such random directions, it's hard to keep track. Here he goes crowd-friendly, big budget, populist Sci-Fi. Enjoyable but forgettable effect.

Aussie director, Sean Byrne's debut is a magnificent, deranged and utterly twisted prom date horror that deserves to be a cult classic.

This hugely anticipated and wildly successful N.W.A. biopic just about lives up to the incredible hype and is never less than massively entertaining.

Everything shines in this drug cartel/DEA action thriller. The direction by Denis Villeneuve, the cinematography by the esteemed Roger Deakins, the atmospheric music by Johan Johannsson and the writing by then man of the moment Taylor Sheridan. Happily the cast, led by Emily Blunt, Benicio del Torro and Josh Brolin are well up to the task. One of the finest array of across the board talent ever as...

The fabulous Netflix drug cartel drama now has five fantastic series under it's belt, here with the original Pablo Escobar version.

I may put this last out of 4,5 & 6 in the franchise but that's still near top-tier state of the art action movie making.

A big fat zero out of ten for Josh Trank's woefully misguided exercise in execrable movie making, nearly perfected here. Actually everything about it is awful in one of the decades biggest cinematic disasters.

This far too late in the day movie version of a much loved bro-show pulls a Sex in the City 2, and throws out most of what was special about the program and likable about the characters, making the whole thing a grating yet soporific chore. Awful.

The almighty Bacon appears in this slightly diverting drama.

Matthew Heineman 's doco about the Mexican Drug War , was one of the finest of the whole decade and almost a companion piece to the movie Sicario. Incredible, almost unbelievable footage and stories but also cinematography you would sing about if it were in a normal film.

Johnny Depp has his own cottage true-crime gangster movie industry with, Donnie Brasco, Blow, Public Enemies and now this, based on the same James "Whitey" Bulger that inspired Jack Nicholson's character in The Departed. Depp is perhaps career best creating a monstrous and terrifying unlikable villain, though director Scott Cooper just fails to convert. There's tons to recommend here though includ...

Seth MacFarlane's Ted series are a missed opportunity. Still highly watchable and often hilarious but like much of his movie output, weighed down by far too much focus on far too weak screenplays and not enough of the fantastic chemistry between Mark Walhberg and Ted nor the endless opportunities for comedy. This second films misses Mila Kunis round out the main three but is funny slightly more of...

The only film from director Paul Fieg I've so far been able to stand, riotous James Bond tomfoolery, with a winning and up for it cast, nearly in the same pocket as Kingsmen.

Michael Fassbender and Ben Mendelsohn amp up ex-Beta Band, John Maclean's directoral debut. Good, if a little more mainstream and less transgressive or memorable than the raft of extremely dark modern westerns.

The moral and psychological issues surrounding the use of drones in warfare and remote killing, make the worthy subject of this interesting and tense war drama and Ethan Hawke is never not watchable.

>Sudders < Writer-director Adam MacDonald doesn't need any budget to make you cover your eyes in this horrific and scary hiking-horror, based on true events, about a lost couple being hunted by a bear.

Aussie director George Miller inexplicably got everything more right than anyone thought possible, rebooting his fabled Max series. Though Hardy is uncommonly uninteresting as the background Max and it really is an incredible Theron's film, direction, action, cinematography, production design, sound and just about every film-making aspect are all magnificent, in one of the decades most beautifully...

After beguiling the world with its first installment, the Jurassic films series has delivered four straight duds, mostly awful.