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Movie Review : Kill List (2011)
Jul 4

Jul 4 Movie Review : Kill List (2011)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Ben Wheatley’s Kill List doesn’t scare you with what it shows, it scares you with what it tricks you into seeing.

Book Review : Sally Rooney - Intermezzo (2024)
Jul 3

Jul 3 Book Review : Sally Rooney - Intermezzo (2024)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

Intermezzo flirts with emotional depth, but keeps ghosting its own potential.

A Subjective History of Post-Metal
Jul 2

Jul 2 A Subjective History of Post-Metal

Benoit Lelievre
Essays, Long-Ass Reads

For those who want their metal slow, loud, emotionally ruinous and occasionally French.

In The Beginning, There Was Sound: A Conversation With Anju Singh
Jun 29

Jun 29 In The Beginning, There Was Sound: A Conversation With Anju Singh

Benoit Lelievre
Conversations

Anju Singh’s music won’t comfort you, but it might change how you listen forever.

Album Review : Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence (2025)
Jun 23

Jun 23 Album Review : Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

Thirty-three minutes of self-inflicted psychic damage and you’ll ask for another serving.

Movie Review : The Monkey (2025)
Jun 19

Jun 19 Movie Review : The Monkey (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

The Monkey is what happens when daddy issues, cursed antiques, and one very committed wind-up toy team up to ruin your whole bloodline.

Classic Movie Review : Primer (2004)
Jun 17

Jun 17 Classic Movie Review : Primer (2004)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Time travel for people who think therapy is for quitters.

Book Review : Jonathan Franzen - Crossroads (2021)
Jun 13

Jun 13 Book Review : Jonathan Franzen - Crossroads (2021)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

What if God existed, but only to make your family resent you more?

Album Review : Steve Von Till - Alone in a World of Wounds (2025)
Jun 11

Jun 11 Album Review : Steve Von Till - Alone in a World of Wounds (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

Some records scream to be heard; this one waits for you to get quiet enough to notice it.

Movie Review : Mickey 17 (2025)
Jun 9

Jun 9 Movie Review : Mickey 17 (2025)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

What happens when a great director stops needing a reason to say something?

The Self-Exorcism of Craig Clevenger
Jun 6

Jun 6 The Self-Exorcism of Craig Clevenger

Benoit Lelievre
Conversations, Long-Ass Reads

I wrote a bad review of Craig Clevenger’s latest novel. He answered. Then we met. Was Literaryville really too small for two aging, sensitive dudes?

Book Review : Eryk Pruitt - Something Bad Wrong (2023)
Jun 3

Jun 3 Book Review : Eryk Pruitt - Something Bad Wrong (2023)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews
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.

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