The Brown Note Movie Review

Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) Film Review

I'm pretty much the hardest sell for this movie. I don't like Spider-man as a character, or particularly the films, especially the zany comic stylings and whiny teen angs

The Strokes - Reality Awaits (2026) Album Review

After the amazing best in years come-back that was The New Abnormal, their wildest and most aggravating album yet. Their are many fine, fleet-footed, classic sounding Str

Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend (2026) Album Review

Phoebe Bridgers sits at the epicenter of the modern music critics happy place, so it's not surprising to see universal acclaim for what is basically cat nip form them. Lo

It Ends (2026) Film Review

The latest zero budget "IT" horror, is really neither the horror or comedy it's tagged as. Rather this four friends on a road trip to hell movie is an existential meditat

Mutiny (2026) Movie Review

The latest Jason Statham actioner is a welcome straight forward 1980's Jean Claude Van Damme action flick. Sadly it doesn't embellish or develop that premise in any direc

Supergirl (2026) Film Review

Oh dear God... I thought the toxic fanboys had got to this one and it was probably decent. I was so wrong, as is almost every decision, in every direction, they took in m

The End of Oak Street (2026) Movie Review

Despite solid reviews and a very starry lead pair - Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor - this dino-sci-fi is too limited to be anything other than an amiable once through yo

The Odyssey (2026) Film Review

I posted that Christopher Nolan's monumental version of Homer's The Odyssey was in danger of being a six out of ten failure, due to a poor script, bad acting and a hokey

Gone But Forgotten: RIDE - The 5 Ep's

My feature on things that were denied classic status on release or have been forgotten about since. The first 5 Ep's by Shoegaze legends, RIDE, have not been forgotten bu

Obsession (2026) Film Review

Finally, after Longlegs, Sinners, Weapons, the monkey one, an "IT" horror movie that finally lives up to the hype and illustrious predecessors like Hereditary. Writer-dir

Lee "Scratch" Perry & Mouse on Mars - Spatial, No Problem. (2026) Album Review

This unexpectedly brilliant final chapter in the dub reggae icon's story was recorded in 2019, a few years before his death. You didn't realise how much you needed an 80

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) Film Review

The logical heir to Everything, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Though not as moving, consistent or imaginative, there's still plenty of grist for sci-fi fans and inte

Iceage - For Love of Grace & the Hereafter (2026) Album Review

The Danish titans are one of the best and most consistently great rock acts over the last fifteen years, but their sixth album feels more like a late period Strokes album

Citizen Vigilante (2026) Film Review

The most controversial film in the world I tells you! And is legendary gozno-indie film maker, Uwe Boll trolling Elon Musk here? Getting him to promote a film about an ev

Modest Mouse - An Eraser and a Maze (2026) Album Review

The latest from the alt-rock legends may not quite be a good as their excellent (and ignored) previous album but it's still got enough to suggest fuel remains in Isaac Br

Boards of Canada - Inferno (2026) Album Review

Sadly this long awaited comeback album from the Scottish electronic Titans, lacks the imagination, emotion and strangeness of their heyday. 

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is a 6/10 Failure

The greatest truism in movies - trailers never lie. However truncated the format, trailers give a great indication as to the quality of the dialogue, acting and overall t

Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Movie Review

The goofily named latest from the James Wan/Jason Blum horror universes is a totally different take on The Mummy story than the Tom Cruise or Brendon Fraser era films. Th

Apex (2026) Movie Review

Maybe only Tom Cruise himself goes as far in earning a paycheck as an outstanding and, no doubt, severely bruised Chalize Theron does in this near great genre thriller. T

Angine de Poitrine - Vol. II (2026) Album Review

This years break out floppy-nosed, Aztec-Jewsih folk song prog metal cartoon virtuoso duo have taken the world by storm and loopers have never been so happy.