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Classic Movie Review : Primer (2004)
Jun 17

Jun 17 Classic Movie Review : Primer (2004)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Time travel for people who think therapy is for quitters.

Book Review : Jonathan Franzen - Crossroads (2021)
Jun 13

Jun 13 Book Review : Jonathan Franzen - Crossroads (2021)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

What if God existed, but only to make your family resent you more?

Album Review : Steve Von Till - Alone in a World of Wounds (2025)
Jun 11

Jun 11 Album Review : Steve Von Till - Alone in a World of Wounds (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

Some records scream to be heard; this one waits for you to get quiet enough to notice it.

Movie Review : Mickey 17 (2025)
Jun 9

Jun 9 Movie Review : Mickey 17 (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

What happens when a great director stops needing a reason to say something?

The Self-Exorcism of Craig Clevenger
Jun 6

Jun 6 The Self-Exorcism of Craig Clevenger

Benoit Lelievre
Conversations, Long-Ass Reads

I wrote a bad review of Craig Clevenger’s latest novel. He answered. Then we met. Was Literaryville really too small for two aging, sensitive dudes?

Book Review : Eryk Pruitt - Something Bad Wrong (2023)
Jun 3

Jun 3 Book Review : Eryk Pruitt - Something Bad Wrong (2023)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews
A Subjective History of Metalcore
May 31

May 31 A Subjective History of Metalcore

Benoit Lelievre
Long-Ass Reads, Essays
Album Review : Youth Code - Yours, With Malice (2025)
May 26

May 26 Album Review : Youth Code - Yours, With Malice (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

You’ll pretend it’s about the beat, but this EP know what you’re really feeling.

Movie Review : The Accountant 2 (2025)
May 26

May 26 Movie Review : The Accountant 2 (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Pew! Pew! Accounting!

Everything I Thought I Knew About Full of Hell Was Wrong : A Conversation with Spencer Hazard
May 16

May 16 Everything I Thought I Knew About Full of Hell Was Wrong : A Conversation with Spencer Hazard

Benoit Lelievre
Conversations
Book Review : Victoria Brooks - Silicone God (2023)
May 14

May 14 Book Review : Victoria Brooks - Silicone God (2023)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

It’s a novel that slips under your skin like a lover you don’t trust: whispering questions about your body, your cravings, and whether intimacy is just a beautifully coded illusion.

Andrew Tate Might Be Bowser, But We're Not Mario
May 12

May 12 Andrew Tate Might Be Bowser, But We're Not Mario

Benoit Lelievre
Essays
Movie Review : Skinamarink (2023)
May 8

May 8 Movie Review : Skinamarink (2023)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

What if the scariest movie you’ll ever see is just a grainy home video of being four years old, awake when you shouldn’t be, and the house has started to forget you exist?

Movie Review : Demolition (2015)
May 6

May 6 Movie Review : Demolition (2015)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Demolition isn’t about grief so much as it’s about the performative absurdity of pretending grief makes sense, like trying to fix a broken marriage by taking apart a perfectly good refrigerator with a Phillips-head screwdriver and a God complex.

Book Review : Craig DiLouie - Episode Thirteen (2023)
May 2

May 2 Book Review : Craig DiLouie - Episode Thirteen (2023)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

Episode Thirteen is a haunted house story trapped in a found-footage gimmick, where the real horror isn’t the ghosts, it’s how much better this would’ve been as a movie.

Movie Review : Invasion U.S.A (1985)
Apr 30

Apr 30 Movie Review : Invasion U.S.A (1985)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

What if the most absurd Cold War fever dream ever put to film wasn’t about America being invaded, but about Chuck Norris getting personally offended?

Movie Review : Companion (2025)
Apr 28

Apr 28 Movie Review : Companion (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Companion is less about killer robots and more about the terrifying things people do when they think no one's real enough to matter.

A Subjective History of Viking Metal
Apr 25

Apr 25 A Subjective History of Viking Metal

Benoit Lelievre
Essays, Long-Ass Reads

This isn’t folk metal in a horned hat, it’s blackened gospel from the fjords.

Album Review - Dødsmaskin - Isolat (2025)
Apr 23

Apr 23 Album Review - Dødsmaskin - Isolat (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

If you’ve ever wondered what it sounds like when two Norwegians weaponize ambient music into a philosophical death spiral for machines and memories, this is your chance.

Book Review : Fernanda Melchor - Paradais (2021)
Apr 18

Apr 18 Book Review : Fernanda Melchor - Paradais (2021)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

Teenage nihilism as a full contact sport.

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