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Movie Review : Ready Player One (2018)
Aug 27

Aug 27 Movie Review : Ready Player One (2018)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

This movie is basically saying that video game nerds are broken, inept people that will one day usher a dystopia if we let them create companies.

Book Review : Ed McBain - The Mugger (1956)
Aug 24

Aug 24 Book Review : Ed McBain - The Mugger (1956)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

Ed McBain was the master of throwaway thrills and The Mugger doesn’t disappoint.

Movie Review : Miami Blues (1990)
Aug 23

Aug 23 Movie Review : Miami Blues (1990)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

This movie is probably way more enjoyable if you haven’t read Charles Willeford’s standout novel it’s based on.

Book Review : Trevanian - The Main (1976)
Aug 22

Aug 22 Book Review : Trevanian - The Main (1976)

Benoit Lelievre

Trevanian is largely forgotten today, but his books still kick ass close to 50 years after publishing.

Movie Review : Out of Sight (1998)
Aug 21

Aug 21 Movie Review : Out of Sight (1998)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Out of Sight has turned 20, but it aged like fine wine.

Book Review : Jordan Peterson - 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Aug 20

Aug 20 Book Review : Jordan Peterson - 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

Dr. Peterson is not an alt-right ideologue or the paragon of reasonable left he claims to be. He’s an interesting and complicated in-between.

Book Review : Charles Willeford - Miami Blues (1984)
Aug 10

Aug 10 Book Review : Charles Willeford - Miami Blues (1984)

Benoit Lelievre

Don’t look at the cover. Buy it and trust me: Charles Willeford is going to kick your ass.

Album Review : Travis Scott - Astroworld (2018)
Aug 9

Aug 9 Album Review : Travis Scott - Astroworld (2018)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

Travis Scott is baaack. The good, psychedelic weirdo Travis Scott.

Movie Review : Suburbicon (2017)
Aug 8

Aug 8 Movie Review : Suburbicon (2017)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Every review of this film you’ve read is wrong, except for mine.

The Best Artist You Don't Know: Charlotte Cardin
Aug 7

Aug 7 The Best Artist You Don't Know: Charlotte Cardin

Benoit Lelievre
Essays

There’s a life before and there’s a life after knowing Charlotte Cardin.

Book Review : John D. MacDonald - A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965)
Aug 3

Aug 3 Book Review : John D. MacDonald - A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

The best Travis McGee novel since the original, if you ask me. It treads a lot of new ground.

Planned Service Interruption
Aug 2

Aug 2 Planned Service Interruption

Benoit Lelievre
Blogging

It’s that time of the year.

Numb
Aug 1

Aug 1 Numb

Benoit Lelievre
Essays

Gut check.

Movie Review : Swiss Army Man (2016)
Jul 31

Jul 31 Movie Review : Swiss Army Man (2016)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

Low-key brutal film about a romantic dork.

Classic Album Review : Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (1994)
Jul 30

Jul 30 Classic Album Review : Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (1994)

Benoit Lelievre
Album Reviews

This album is a triumph of creativity, clever production and, well… pure evil, I suppose.

Movie Review : Pure Fucking Mayhem (2008)
Jul 27

Jul 27 Movie Review : Pure Fucking Mayhem (2008)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

There are many documentaries about Norwegian black metal, but only one dedicated to their most iconic band Mayhem.

Movie Review : I, Tonya (2017)
Jul 26

Jul 26 Movie Review : I, Tonya (2017)

Benoit Lelievre
Movie Reviews

A perfect film for the “fake news” era.

The Problem with Big Productions and their Cardboard Badasses
Jul 25

Jul 25 The Problem with Big Productions and their Cardboard Badasses

Benoit Lelievre
Essays

Our action heroes are inferior to those of the eighties and nineties and we’re (partly) to blame for that.

Book Review : Ross MacDonald - The Drowning Pool (1950)
Jul 24

Jul 24 Book Review : Ross MacDonald - The Drowning Pool (1950)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

Ross MacDonald was undeniably talented, but was he really a mystery novelist?

Book Review : Ed McBain - Cop Hater (1956)
Jul 20

Jul 20 Book Review : Ed McBain - Cop Hater (1956)

Benoit Lelievre
Book Reviews

In the glory years of world-weary private detectives, there was this dude writing about a bunch of cops.

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