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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?

Movie Review : Money Monster (2016)
Jun 19

Jun 19 Movie Review : Money Monster (2016)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Jodie Foster meant well with this movie. She wanted to help, but it didn’t exactly work that way.

Movie Review : The Disaster Artist (2017)
Jun 18

Jun 18 Movie Review : The Disaster Artist (2017)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Should a competent movie about the most incompetent movie of all-time be called a success?

Book Review : Seb Doubinsky - Missing Signal (2018)
Jun 15

Jun 15 Book Review : Seb Doubinsky - Missing Signal (2018)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

A fragmented and challenging novel from the French professor, but one that reveals the audience to itself as much as it reveals its characters.

Album Review : KIDS SEE GHOSTS (2018)
Jun 14

Jun 14 Album Review : KIDS SEE GHOSTS (2018)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

Kanye West should inherit the mailman nickname from Karl Malone, because he always delivers.

Excerpt from Seb Doubinsky's upcoming novel Missing Signal
Jun 13

Jun 13 Excerpt from Seb Doubinsky's upcoming novel Missing Signal

Benoit Lelievre
Excerpts

Read an exclusive excerpt from Seb Doubinsky’s upcoming novel Missing Signal. A Meerkat Press novel. It will be available on August 28, 2018.

Movie Review : Blow-Up (1966)
Jun 12

Jun 12 Movie Review : Blow-Up (1966)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

52 years after its release, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up has a thing or two to teach the world still.

Book Review : Seb Doubinsky - The Babylonian Trilogy (2009)
Jun 11

Jun 11 Book Review : Seb Doubinsky - The Babylonian Trilogy (2009)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

Doubinsky’s greatest talent is on display here: he’s remapping the way you think about the world.

Book Review : J.G Ballard - Crash (1973)
Jun 8

Jun 8 Book Review : J.G Ballard - Crash (1973)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

Crash is the novel about people fucking in car crashes. It’s disturbing, low-key terrifying and prescient.

Movie Review: Steve Jobs (2015)
Jun 7

Jun 7 Movie Review: Steve Jobs (2015)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

This movie flopped not because it questioned Steve Jobs’ character, but because it questioned way more than that.

Movie Review : Crash (1996)
Jun 6

Jun 6 Movie Review : Crash (1996)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

When you’ve seen this Crash, it’s impossible to mistake it for the other movie of the same name.

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