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Movie Review : Kinds of Kindness (2024)
Nov 11

Nov 11 Movie Review : Kinds of Kindness (2024)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Desire is exhausting.

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.

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