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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. 

A Subjective History of Funeral Doom Metal
Sep 12

Sep 12 A Subjective History of Funeral Doom Metal

Benoit Lelievre
Long-Ass Reads, Essays

The slowest, heaviest, saddest music you’ll ever willingly cry to.

Movie Review : Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Sep 10

Sep 10 Movie Review : Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Tom Cruise is still the only man willing to fistfight gravity for your entertainment.

Book Review : Marlon James - A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014)
Sep 8

Sep 8 Book Review : Marlon James - A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

A novel that lives in that liminal space between fact and the stories we tell ourselves.

Album Review : Reaper's Gong - Euphoric Purification (2025)
Sep 5

Sep 5 Album Review : Reaper's Gong - Euphoric Purification (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

Spencer Hazard just refuses to run out of ideas.

Movie Review : Ballerina (2025)
Sep 2

Sep 2 Movie Review : Ballerina (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

All the neons and the busy clubs in the world cannot buy a character credibility.

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.

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