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Music Review : The Body & Krieg (2015, At a Loss) According to Wikipedia The Body is a sludge metal band. Well, if you take this source as the unique way to be informed you may be wrong and when on bandcamp we learn that Chip King is the voice and Neill Jameson from the American black m read more

Note : this review is a contribution to What A Character! blogathon hosted by Once Upon A Screen, Outspoken & Freckled and Paula’s Cinema Club. Harry Dean Stanton : Character Actor Harry Dean Stanton When my ever lasting sickness of cinephilia infected me fifteen years read more

Note : this review is a contribution to the Swashathon : a blogathon of swashbuckling Adventure hosted by Movies Silently. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz & William Keighley, 1938) When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richar read more

Music Review : Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr (2015, Season of Mist) Avant-Garde mastermind Tamas Katai from Hungary has been forging a kind of music originally closer to black metal but evolving in a way that transcends genres and labels. Using a large array of instruments and sonorities, the expe read more

Music Review : VHOL – Deeper Than Sky (2015, Profound Lore) The supergroup that is VHOL delivers again the product of a real supergroup and not just a record of big known names making average music that will sell. With Mike Scheidt (YOB) on vocals, two ex-Ludicra of John Cobbett (Hamm read more

Note : this review is a contribution to The Universal blogathon hosted by Silver Scenes. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds read more

Note : this review is a contribution to The Silent Cinema blogathon hosted by In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Lauren Champkin. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) Dr. Caligari's somnambulist, Cesare, and his deadly predictions. I remember a discussion I had read more

Note : this review is a contribution to The Silent Cinema blogathon hosted by In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Lauren Champkin. La roue (Abel Gance, 1923) Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma (whom Sisif rescued from a train crash when a read more

Music Review : The Negation -  Memento Mori (2015, Kaotoxin Records) Coming out of France, The Negation is probably the best incarnation of the extreme metal that the Swedish, self labeled as a black metal outfit, Dark Funeral has started back in 1993. It took me many listens of Mement read more

Music Review : The Order of Apollyon – The Sword and the Dagger (2015, Listenable Records) The genre of death metal has been saturated for years with hundred of bands releasing hundreds of records every year. Honestly, it is not my usual cup of tea except for obvious acts like Nile, C read more

The Double life of Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991) Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected. I have recently written a lot about the fact that I don’ read more

Music Review : Temple of Baal – Mysterium (2015, Agonia Records) Coming out of France, the blackened death metal act of Temple of Baal has been active since 1998. We often hear the mix of the genres that are black and death metal, done so many times, and almost as a single formula. Wi read more

Note : this review is a contribution to the Kingathon hosted by Movie Reviews 101 and Movie Rob. The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg, 1983) A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic detective ability. After a series of successful best-selling horror novels, author Stephen King read more

Music Review : Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (2015, Constellation) The outfit of Godspeed You! Black Emperor has never hidden its allegiance to their positions, politics, or views on the world. However, the post-rock group never really caressed the de read more

Music Review : Horna – Hengen Tulet (2015, World Terror Committee) Interestingly enough, lately I’ve been catching on black metal bands that I’ve been ignorant of and that have been around for a good time; first with Tsjuder and now Horna. Both were formed in 1993, Tsjuder read more

Music Review : Gorgoroth – Instinctus Bestialis (2015, Soulseller Records) After a series of Black Metal Hall of fame potential records, Norwegian band Gorgoroth has been a ridiculous caricature of itself. Aligning a huge criminal record from its members and a legal dispute over the b read more

Music Review : Deafheaven – New Bermuda (2015, Anti-) It was not until last year that I discovered Deafheaven’s sophomore album Sunbather and their mix of my favorite genre in music black metal with a genre I’m not that connoisseur of, shoegaze. It was around October that I read more

Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, 1994) An intimate portrait of the controversial cartoonist and his traumatized family. Back in my CEGEP years (equivalent of College) I had access to a huge library of comic books. Sometimes I would read comics that I never heard of or read about. When I got into Robert C read more

Music Review : Brandon Flowers – The Desired Effect (2015, Island Records) Stuck in the 80’s since his debut in music, Brandon Flowers who’s also the lead singer of dream pop, alt rock, post-punk band The Killers, who released two of the best albums of the 2000’s Hot read more

Music Review : Tsjuder – Antiliv (2015, Season Of Mist) In this era of saturated genre albums, especially a genre where evolution or departure from the original guidelines is often quickly discarded. In the black metal genre, many good records are released each year. However, a few are read more