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Album Review : Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough: Vol II (2025)
Nov 8

Nov 8 Album Review : Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough: Vol II (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

It doesn’t sound like doom and it doesn’t sound like folk; it sounds like the slow formation of something that shouldn’t exist but somehow does.

Movie Review : American Ninja (1985)
Nov 5

Nov 5 Movie Review : American Ninja (1985)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

The eighties were even weirder than we remember them to be.

Movie Review : One Battle After Another (2025)
Nov 3

Nov 3 Movie Review : One Battle After Another (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

The first political thriller where everyone’s both right and wrong (and that’s the point).

Book Review : Richard Matheson - Hell House (1971)
Oct 30

Oct 30 Book Review : Richard Matheson - Hell House (1971)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

Hell House endures because it’s not really about haunting, it’s about how hard it is to let anything go.

Movie Review : Bugonia (2025)
Oct 28

Oct 28 Movie Review : Bugonia (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

A movie that refuses to make you feel smart for liking it and I mean this in the best possible way.

A Subjective History of Deathcore
Oct 25

Oct 25 A Subjective History of Deathcore

Benoit Lelievre
Essays, Long-Ass Reads
Movie Review : Materialists (2025)
Oct 22

Oct 22 Movie Review : Materialists (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

A film about gaslighting yourself out of banging Pedro Pascal.

Movie Review : Ballad of a Small Player (2025)
Oct 20

Oct 20 Movie Review : Ballad of a Small Player (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

None of it makes sense, but addiction rarely does.

Album Review : Primitive Man - Observance (2025)
Oct 17

Oct 17 Album Review : Primitive Man - Observance (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

his is the record you’ll reach for when the noise of a burning world matches the noise within.

On Observance, Hope and Writing Doom Metal From a Rock n' Roll Perspective: A Conversation with Ethan Lee McCarthy
Oct 16

Oct 16 On Observance, Hope and Writing Doom Metal From a Rock n' Roll Perspective: A Conversation with Ethan Lee McCarthy

Benoit Lelievre
Conversations

Observance is an album about hope (sort of).

Album Review : Author & Punisher - Nocturnal Birding (2025)
Oct 10

Oct 10 Album Review : Author & Punisher - Nocturnal Birding (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

The important thing is to power through and powering through is Author & Punisher’s MO.

Movie Review : Friendship (2025)
Oct 8

Oct 8 Movie Review : Friendship (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

bell hooks would’ve loved it.

Book Review : David Simmons - Eradicator (2025)
Oct 6

Oct 6 Book Review : David Simmons - Eradicator (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

A clever reengineering of American Psycho: what if you were looking for something real and the world constantly disappointed you?

Classic Movie Review : Timecop (1994)
Oct 2

Oct 2 Classic Movie Review : Timecop (1994)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

All vibe and zero logic, unless you count the logic of THESE HANDS.

Classic Movie Review : Altered States (1980)
Sep 30

Sep 30 Classic Movie Review : Altered States (1980)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

You had to be alive before internet to understand.

Album Review : Andrew Nolan - Monochrome Vol. 2 : Tentacles of Spiritual Contagion (2025)
Sep 26

Sep 26 Album Review : Andrew Nolan - Monochrome Vol. 2 : Tentacles of Spiritual Contagion (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

It sounds like a legendary rave your subconscious recorded while you were passed out on the bathroom floor.

Book Review : Logan Berry - Doom is The House Without A Door (2025)
Sep 24

Sep 24 Book Review : Logan Berry - Doom is The House Without A Door (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

You’re not watching someone solve their problems, you’re watching someone dissolve into them.

Movie Review : The Art of Self-Defense (2019)
Sep 22

Sep 22 Movie Review : The Art of Self-Defense (2019)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

John Wick, if he were real, a little sadder, and more likely to stub his toe.

Movie Review : Sinners (2025)
Sep 18

Sep 18 Movie Review : Sinners (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

I thought I’d hate it for being too simple and straightforward, but I actually enjoyed it for being simple and straightforward.

The Existential Mythology Of Vermis
Sep 16

Sep 16 The Existential Mythology Of Vermis

Benoit Lelievre
Essays

Books that are full of absences, cracks, ellipses and in those gaps, your own imagination ties all the loose ends between fiction and your life. A looking glass for adults. 

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