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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.

Movie Review : The Order (2024)
Apr 14

Apr 14 Movie Review : The Order (2024)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Why is no one talking about this movie?

Movie Review : Strange Darling (2024)
Apr 10

Apr 10 Movie Review : Strange Darling (2024)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

A vicious, sun-drenched mind game—Strange Darling rips apart gender roles and slasher rules in a gorgeously unhinged fever dream.

Movie Review : The Substance (2024)
Apr 8

Apr 8 Movie Review : The Substance (2024)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

The Substance is a bloody, pitch-black satire where chasing eternal youth turns into a literal fight for your body—with your hotter, younger, crazier clone.

Album Review : Counterparts - Heaven Let Them Die (2024)
Apr 4

Apr 4 Album Review : Counterparts - Heaven Let Them Die (2024)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

It's a different breed of heavy.

Classic Movie Review : St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
Apr 2

Apr 2 Classic Movie Review : St. Elmo's Fire (1985)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

It has aged like a carton of milk in the sun, but it still has heart.

Movie Review : Heretic (2024)
Mar 31

Mar 31 Movie Review : Heretic (2024)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Judeo-Christian values are lame (or so Hugh Grant thinks).

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