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Album Review : Sleep - The Sciences (2018)
Jul 19

Jul 19 Album Review : Sleep - The Sciences (2018)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

Stoner/doom giants Sleep have awaken (pun intended) and are still awesome.

Movie Review : Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
Jul 18

Jul 18 Movie Review : Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

We have fond memories of this movie, but it really just bridged the gap between the two eras of the Die Hard franchise.

Movie Review : Die Hard 2 (1990)
Jul 16

Jul 16 Movie Review : Die Hard 2 (1990)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Sequels are usually a terrible idea, but Die Hard 2 found an interesting loophole so that it wouldn’t suck.

Revisiting Die Hard
Jul 13

Jul 13 Revisiting Die Hard

Benoit Lelievre
Essays, Movie Reviews

What better way to celebrate Die Hard’s anniversary than to watch it again to try and figure out the secret of its immortality?

Book Review : John D. MacDonald - The Quick Red Fox (1964)
Jul 12

Jul 12 Book Review : John D. MacDonald - The Quick Red Fox (1964)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

The fourth Travis McGee novel is somewhat of a curve ball. It’s one of these books you need to be already into the character to appreciate.

Album Review : Metallica - Reload (1997)
Jul 11

Jul 11 Album Review : Metallica - Reload (1997)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

The singles on this album are great for what they are. But everything else about it sucks.

Movie Review : Now You See Me 2 (2016)
Jul 10

Jul 10 Movie Review : Now You See Me 2 (2016)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Now You See Me 2 is now available on Netflix. One would believe that movie tanked, but it inexplicably didn’t.

Movie Review : You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Jul 9

Jul 9 Movie Review : You Were Never Really Here (2017)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

The latest artsy and deep hyperviolent movie has a thing to two to say about romanticizing violence in movies.

Book Review : Erle Stanley Gardner - Turn On the Heat (1940)
Jul 6

Jul 6 Book Review : Erle Stanley Gardner - Turn On the Heat (1940)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

The Cool & Lam mysteries aren’t exactly elating, but they’re a reliable form of entertainment.

Dipshit Heat: the failure to reboot, rip off or pay tribute
Jul 5

Jul 5 Dipshit Heat: the failure to reboot, rip off or pay tribute

Benoit Lelievre
Essays

Three ways Den of Thieves fail to live up to Heat, the movie it’s blatantly ripping off.

Movie Review : Dipshit Heat (2018)
Jul 4

Jul 4 Movie Review : Dipshit Heat (2018)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

I know this movie is called Den of Thieves, but it really is Dipshit Heat.

Movie Review : Heat (1995)
Jul 3

Jul 3 Movie Review : Heat (1995)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

I’ve seen Heat for the first time last Sunday and it lived up to its cult status in every possible way.

Book Review : Erle Stanley Gardner - The Knife Slipped (2016)
Jul 2

Jul 2 Book Review : Erle Stanley Gardner - The Knife Slipped (2016)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

Erle Stanley Gardner was once the best-selling American author. Why have we forgotten all about him?

Book Review : Jason Starr - Savage Lane (2015)
Jun 29

Jun 29 Book Review : Jason Starr - Savage Lane (2015)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

I hated myself for loving this book. But I did love the hell out of it.

Movie Review : Small Town Crime (2017)
Jun 28

Jun 28 Movie Review : Small Town Crime (2017)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Not exactly a budding classic, but a different take on used up Hollywood tropes.

Album Review : Metallica - Load (1996)
Jun 27

Jun 27 Album Review : Metallica - Load (1996)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

I had rose-colored memories of this album. While there are some of my favorite Metallica songs on it, it’s just not that good.

Album Review : Death Grips - Year of the Snitch (2018)
Jun 26

Jun 26 Album Review : Death Grips - Year of the Snitch (2018)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

This album is, I believe, as close as it gets to the original intent behind Death Grips. It’s a violent onslaught of new and recycled sounds merged together into music you didn’t know you wanted to hear yet.

Movie Review : Mother! (2017)
Jun 25

Jun 25 Movie Review : Mother! (2017)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

This movie is not edgy or controversial. It’s self-satisfied and terrible.

Book Review: Chuck Palahniuk - Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread (2015)
Jun 21

Jun 21 Book Review: Chuck Palahniuk - Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread (2015)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

There’s a lot of what makes Chuck Palahniuk fantastic in that book. A little too much of it.

XXXTentacion and the Legacies of Abusive Artists
Jun 20

Jun 20 XXXTentacion and the Legacies of Abusive Artists

Benoit Lelievre
Essays

The death of the young rapper brings us back to a question we’ve been collectively dodging for decades: how do we want to remember abusive artists?

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