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Movie Review : Thunderbolts (2025)
Aug 29

Aug 29 Movie Review : Thunderbolts (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

You deserve better.

Book Review : Eryk Pruitt - Blood Red Summer (2024)
Aug 27

Aug 27 Book Review : Eryk Pruitt - Blood Red Summer (2024)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

Blood Red Summer is undeniably one of Eryk Pruitt’s best novels, but it’s also polite Pruitt.

A Subjective History Of Mathcore
Aug 25

Aug 25 A Subjective History Of Mathcore

Benoit Lelievre
Long-Ass Reads, Essays

You can’t ever fake it and it will never be normal.

Classic Album Review : Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994)
Aug 21

Aug 21 Classic Album Review : Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

This is not music normal people enjoy and even less choose to play and it’s a good thing.

Classic Movie Review : Judgment Night (1993)
Aug 19

Aug 19 Classic Movie Review : Judgment Night (1993)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

This isn't a film about crime, it's a film about the fear of cities, the fear of slipping down a manhole and discovering that civilization ends after taking the wrong highway exit.

Book Review : Mia Ballard - Shy Girl (2025)
Aug 15

Aug 15 Book Review : Mia Ballard - Shy Girl (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

Mia Ballard is undeniably talented, but she needs to trust her instincts better and let it bleed out.

Classic Movie Review : Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Aug 13

Aug 13 Classic Movie Review : Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a goofy movie, but it shoots key moments with a low-key sincerity that makes them feel startlingly authentic.

Movie Review : Weapons (2025)
Aug 11

Aug 11 Movie Review : Weapons (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

This is a horror movie where the monsters don’t smash through the gates of righteousness. They set up shop inside, change the locks, and start forwarding their mail there.

Movie Review : Smile 2 (2024)
Aug 8

Aug 8 Movie Review : Smile 2 (2024)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Smile 2 gives away purpose and meaning in tiny, incremental sacrifices, like a bad magician showing you the ropes instead of pulling a rabbit out of a hat.

Album Review : Stomach - Low Demon (2025)
Aug 5

Aug 5 Album Review : Stomach - Low Demon (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

A bleak, feedback-drenched descent into sonic horror. Stomach's Low Demon is sludge metal at its most atmospheric and disturbing.

Movie Review : Lurker (2025)
Aug 1

Aug 1 Movie Review : Lurker (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Lurker asks what happens when seeing someone too clearly turns you into something they can’t unsee.

A Subjective History of Technical Death Metal
Jul 30

Jul 30 A Subjective History of Technical Death Metal

Benoit Lelievre
Essays, Long-Ass Reads

From jazzed-out cyborgs to dissonant chaos gods and everything that goes BLOOIING in between.

Movie Review : Eddington (2025)
Jul 28

Jul 28 Movie Review : Eddington (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Ari Aster made a Western about COVID, guns, and Katy Perry and somehow, it works.

The Prince of Darkness is Dead, Long Live the Darkness
Jul 25

Jul 25 The Prince of Darkness is Dead, Long Live the Darkness

Benoit Lelievre
Essays

Ozzy Osbourne he was our unholy grandfather, reminding us that weirdness was a virtue, not a flaw.

Album Review : Matt Jencik & Midwife - Never Die (2025)
Jul 22

Jul 22 Album Review : Matt Jencik & Midwife - Never Die (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

Something is whispering to you from the other side.

Book Review : Lauren Beukes - The Shining Girls (2013)
Jul 18

Jul 18 Book Review : Lauren Beukes - The Shining Girls (2013)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

The Shining Girls features a time-traveling murder house, which sounds cool until you realize it’s mostly there to make plot holes feel intentional.

Movie Review : The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015)
Jul 16

Jul 16 Movie Review : The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

The Blackcoat’s Daughter is the kind of slow-burn horror that sneaks up on you, like a ghoulish text from your ex at 2 AM, impossible to ignore and even harder to explain.

The Long Hard Road Into Nothing (Or How The Internet Killed Marilyn Manson)
Jul 14

Jul 14 The Long Hard Road Into Nothing (Or How The Internet Killed Marilyn Manson)

Benoit Lelievre
Essays, Long-Ass Reads

Marilyn Manson is dead. Now it’s just Brian Warner dressing up as your goth older brother who’s never gotten over Bauhaus.

Classic Album Review : Cryptopsy - None So Vile (1996)
Jul 10

Jul 10 Classic Album Review : Cryptopsy - None So Vile (1996)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

You don’t get two None So Viles. You should be happy it exists and that it changed everything.

Movie Review : A Dark Song (2016)
Jul 8

Jul 8 Movie Review : A Dark Song (2016)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

One of the bleakest movies about grief, magic, and trusting the worst Airbnb host imaginable.

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